How to Buy a Spirograph Set
Tips for buying new or vintage Spirograph sets – where to look and what to look out for.
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Order Spirograph Replacement Pieces
UPDATE August 2020: The link to the store mentioned below is no longer working. If you’re looking for Spirograph replacement parts, try Etsy or eBay. Sometimes people sell individual pieces there. The vintage Spirograph sets are compatible with the new … Continue reading →
Designs with Two Racks: Instructions & Videos
Ready for a Spirograph challenge? I didn’t get into the two-rack designs as a kid. Maybe I tried it once and found it too difficult; I don’t remember. But a request for some videos about them prompted me to sit … Continue reading →
Vintage Super Spirograph Booklet
I followed a link from the Wikipedia article on Spirograph to this user manual for Super Spirograph. It’s in French, Dutch and German. Thanks to Stephanie Molina who posted it on Scribd. It’s 39 pages of vintage goodness, including many … Continue reading →
Super Spirograph: Curvy Diamond
The Super Spirograph curvy diamond layout sits on an 8.5″ x 11″ paper with enough room to make an epitrochoid around the outside if you keep to a smaller wheel – below 40 or so. (If you’re in a country that … Continue reading →
Super Spirograph by the Numbers
How to know in advance how many points a given wheel will make in any Super Spirograph layout.
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The Super Spirograph rectangle may seem boring compared to, say, the cloverleaf layout, but it can actually be useful. I needed to make a certificate recently, so used Super Spirograph to make a fancy border, then sized it up a … Continue reading →
Super Spirograph Patterns: The Cloverleaf
The cloverleaf is my favorite Super Spirograph arrangement because it is so curvy. The larger wheels do very interesting things as they go from concave to convex to concave again. To make it fit on a regular piece of paper, … Continue reading →
Super Spirograph is back!
Kahootz Toys, which has resurrected the original Spirograph, is now coming out with a Super Spirograph. As I’ve mentioned on this site, I still have my Super Spirograph from the 1970s. The extra parts in this picture look the same as in my … Continue reading →
Chart of Spirograph Wheels and Rings
What came in the set? In response to a reader’s question, I’ve started this comparison table of the different Spirographs that have been produced over the years.
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