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This article 'Dr Z...' headed 'Recreations scientifiques' and subheaded 'Papier decoupe formant un filet' explains how to make the Fold and Slit Trellis.

The opening paragraph reads, roughly, 'We have previously published several recreations that can be made with paper; we gave the way of making a bird, whose wings can be made to move. This invention is Japanese; the Japanese made it known, with great success, at the Exposition of Paris in 1889.' However, footnote 1 makes it clear that the previous publication of the flapping bird in 'La Nature' was in 1885.

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