| The Public Paperfolding History Project
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| Cut and Fold Polygonal Packets | |||||||
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page is being used to collect information about the
histpry of a class of paperfolds I call Cut and Fold
Polygonal Packets. Please contact me if you know any of
this information is incorrect or if you have any other
information that should be added. Thank you. ********** A Purse in the Shape of a Rose with Twelve Leaves - 1762 onwards
********** The Court-Plaster Case - 1831 onwards
********** The Tobacco Pouch - 1863 onwards
********** 1905 A design for an 'Octagonal Tatami Mat' appears in 'Shukouka Kyohon : Liron Jishuu Souga Setsumei' by Kikujiro Kiuchi, Rokushiro Uehara and Hideyoshi Okayama, which was published by Shigebei Takase in Chiba in 1905.
********** 1911 'Häusliche Kleinkunst und Bastelarbeit in Wort und Bild' by Hermann Pfeiffer, which was published by Verlag von Hermann Zieger in Leipzig in 1911, contains diagrams for folding two polygonal packets with curved interior edges.
********** 1937 'Paper Toy Making' by Margaret Campbell, which was first published by Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd in London, probably in 1937, although both the Foreword and Preface are dated 1936, which argues that the book was complete at that date, contains a template for a 'Japanese Matchbox' and 'Ash-Tray'.
********** 1970 A collapsible design from an uncut octagon, Samuel Randlett's 'Purse', appeared in Issue 12 of 'The Flapping Bird':
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