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According to Eleonore Heerwart, Froebel did not only conceive of Schonheitsformen - Folds of Beauty - as individual designs, but also as tiles, or as he called them 'Getafel formen' (patterns of inlaid wood), which could be laid edge to edge to produce larger patterns / tessellations.

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1862

'Das Frobel'sche Faltblatt' (Frobel's Folding Sheet) ) by August Koehler, which was published by Hermann Bohlau in Weimar in 1862, contains a paragraph which says, roughly, ''As the following examples show, the shapes can also be arranged one below the other. By using the above course of studsy, the child receives the same material that Froebel presented under the name 'Legetafelchen' (laying boards)'.

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1895

'Course of Paperfolding' by Eleonore Heerwart, which was published by Charles and Dible in London and Glasgow in 1895, mentions Froebel's 'Gefatel formen' in three places:

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(Note: It seems likely to me that there is a misprint here and that the first sentence should end after (forms of beauty).)

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