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Knots Folded from Paper Strips
 
This page is being used to collect information about the history of knots folded from paper strips. 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.

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The Pentagonal Knot - 1668 onwards

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The Hexagonal Knot - 1682 onwards

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1924

An article 'A Note on Knots' by F. V. Morley, 1924, which was published in Vol. 31, No. 5 (May, 1924) of 'The American Mathematical Monthly', contains instructions for folding both the pentagonal and hexagonal knots from a single strip of paper, a general method of folding polygonal knots of n sides from two strips of paper and a way of folding a pentagonal pyramid from a single twisted strip.

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