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Constructing Polyhedra by Folding Paper
 
This page is being used to collecxt information about the history of methods of constructing polyhedra by folding paper. 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.

There is a separate page about constructing polyhedra using Cut and Fold Polyhedral Nets, which is a form of Cardboard Modelling / Cartonnage. Other Cardboard Modelling designs are included on this page.

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Cubes - 1735 onwards

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Cuboids

c1929

Booklet 4 of 'Trabajos Manuales Salvatella - Plegado de figuras de papel', which was published by Editorial Miguel A Salvatera in Barcelona in or around 1929, contains diagrams for 'Paralelepipedo' a cuboid folded from a 5 x 9 oblong.

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Dodecahedra

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Icosahedra

A method of constructing a net for an icosahedron, which will, I think, hold together without the need for glue, is given in 'El Plegado y Cartonaje en la Escuela Primaria' by Antonio M Luchia and Corina Luciani de Luchia, which was published by Editorial Kapelusz in Buenos Aires in 1940.

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Octahedra

A method of constructing a net for an octahedron, by folding, which will, I think, hold together without the need for glue, is given in 'El Plegado y Cartonaje en la Escuela Primaria' by Antonio M Luchia and Corina Luciani de Luchia, which was published by Editorial Kapelusz in Buenos Aires in 1940.

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Prisms

A method of making a square prism from a 4x4gGrid using cuts is given in 'El Plegado y Cartonaje en la Escuela Primaria' by Antonio M Luchia and Corina Luciani de Luchia, which was published by Editorial Kapelusz in Buenos Aires in 1940

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Square-based Pyramids

1889

A method of constructing a Pyramid from an uncut square (although the top point needs to be sewn together) appears in 'Jeux et Travaux Enfantins - Première partie: Le Monde en Papier' by Marie Koenig and Albert Durand was published by Librairie Classique A. Jeande in Paris in 1889.

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1929

Booklet 4 of 'Trabajos Manuales Salvatella - Plegado de figuras de papel', which was published by Editorial Miguel A Salvatera in Barcelona in or around 1929, contains diagrams for 'La Piramide'.

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1952

Another method appears in 'Una Hoja de Papel' by Lorenzo Herrero, which was published by Miguel A Salvatella in Barcelona in 1952.

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Silveroctahedra

1889

'La Science Pratique' by Gaston Tissandier, which was published by G Masson in Paris in 1889, contains a design for a silveroctahedron under the name 'Ballon fait sans rognure avec un carre de papier ou d'etoffe' (Balloon made without offcuts from a sheet of paper or cloth), which is made in two parts which then need to be glued or sewn together.

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Tetrahedra

A method of constructing a net for a tetrahedron, by folding, which will, I think, hold together without the need for glue, is given in 'El Plegado y Cartonaje en la Escuela Primaria' by Antonio M Luchia and Corina Luciani de Luchia, which was published by Editorial Kapelusz in Buenos Aires in 1940.

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