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Last updated 12/1/2025

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This article explains 'How to Fold a Chinese Love Letter' which is a type of Lover's Knot. Information from Michel Grand.

The result of following these instructions is a many layered square, with a smaller square at the centre, on either side of which are two triangular flaps (marked A in figure 8 below). The address - presumably the lover's name - is to be written in the central square. The instructions say that the letter is opened by pulling the flaps marked A outwards. This does begin to release the layers of the design but it is still somewhat difficult to unfold completely.

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