| The Public Paperfolding History Project
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| Cut and Fold Polygonal Packets | |||||||
| This
page attempts to record what is known about the history
of what I call Cut and Fold Polygonal Packets. 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. ********** A Purse in the Shape of a Rose with Twelve Leaves - 1762 onwards
********** The Court-Plaster Case - 1831 onwards
********** 1863 'De Kleine Papierwerkers 1: Wat men van een stukje papier al maken kan: Het vouwen' (The Small Paperwork 1: What one can make from a piece of paper: Folding) by Elise Van Calcar, which was published by K H Schadd in Amsterdam in 1863, contains a design for a cut and fold polygonal packet called 'De beurs of tabakzak' (the purse or tobacco bag).
********** 1905 A design for an 'Octagonal Tatami Mat' appears in 'Shukouka Kyohon : Liron Jishuu Souga Setsumei' by Kikujiro Kiuchi, Rokushiro Uehara and Hideyoshi Okayama, which was published by Shigebei Takase in Chiba in 1905.
********** 1911 'Häusliche Kleinkunst und Bastelarbeit in Wort und Bild' by Hermann Pfeiffer, which was published by Verlag von Hermann Zieger in Leipzig in 1911, contains diagrams for folding two polygonal packets with curved interior edges.
********** 1937 'Paper Toy Making' by Margaret Campbell, which was first published by Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd in London, probably in 1937, although both the Foreword and Preface are dated 1936, which argues that the book was complete at that date, contains a template for a 'Japanese Matchbox' and 'Ash-Tray'.
********** 1970 A collapsible design from an uncut octagon, Samuel Randlett's 'Purse', appeared in Issue 12 of 'The Flapping Bird':
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