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| The Square Hat / Le Bonnet Carre | |||||||
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page is being used to collect information about the
history of the origami design known as The Square Hat or
Le Bonnet Carre. 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. ********** In Japan (and in publications by Japanese authors) 1944 'Origami Shuko' by Isao Honda, which was published in 1944, contains diagrams for a hat (decorated as an Imperial Flag), which is made out of the preliminary folds of Le Bonnet Carre, and for the finished design, interpreted as a Waste Paper Basket.
********** The design also appears: 1960 As 'A Hood' in 'All About Origami' by Isao Honda, which was published by Toto Bunka Company, Limited in Tokyo in 1960.
*** The same design turned upside down becomes 'A Waste paper Basket'.
********** As both 'A Waste-paper Basket' and 'A Hood' in 'Pocket Guide to Origami: Bow-Wow Book', by Isao Honda, which was published by the Asahi Origami Club, Tokyo in 1960.
********** 1965 Thev same derivative designs appear as 'Paper Hat' and the 'Waste-paper Basket', in 'The World of Origami' by Isao Honda, which was published in the USA by Japan Publications Trading Company in 1965.
********** In Europe and the Americas 1892 As far as I know this design first appears in 'Le Travail Manuel a L'ecole Primaire' by Jully & Rocheron, which was published by Librairie Classique Eugene Belin in Paris in 1892.
********** The design also appears: 1893 As 'Bonnet D'Eveque / Bonnet Carre' (Bishop's or Square Hat), in 'L'Annee Preparatoire de Travail Manuel' by M P Martin, which was published by Armand Collin & Cie in Paris in 1893.
********** 1901 As 'Le Bonnet Carre' in an article by Alber in the French children's magazine Mon Journal of 5th January 1901.
********** 1904 As 'Sombrero Cuadrado' (Square Hat) in 'Guia Practica del Trabajo Manual Educativo' by Ezequiel Solana, which was published by Editorial Magisterio Espaņol in Madrid in 1904.
********** 1908 As 'Le Bonnet Carre' in 'Les Petits Secrets Amusants' by Alber-Graves, which was published by Librairie Hachette in Paris in 1908.
********** 1932 With the top flap flattened, in Booklet 4 of 'Images a Plier', a series of 6 booklets published by Librairie Larousse in Paris in 1932.
********** In Booklet 2 of 'Figuras de Papel', a series of 3 booklets published by B Bauza in Barcelona in 1932.
********** 1940 As 'Gorro de Base Cuadrada' 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.
********** 1951 As 'Bonete Cuadrado' in Papiroflexia' by Elias Gutierrez Gil, which was self-published in 1951.
********** As 'Mitra o gorro sacerdotal' in Plegado laminas published by Della Penna, April 1951.
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