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1889

A series of designs for paper leaves appears in 'Jeux et Travaux Enfantins - Première partie: Le Monde en Papier' by Marie Koenig and Albert Durand, which was published by Librairie Classique A. Jeande in Paris in 1889. This method of cutting out then zigzag folding to create indentations around the edges is said to be a discovery of the author's.

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1896

Part 2 of 'The Republic of Childhood', titled 'Froebel's Occupations', by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, which was published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, of Boston and New York in 1896, contains reference to 'a mulberry leaf' among specimensof work from the Empress's kindergarten in Tokyo.

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1910

A pleated and gathered design for a 'Blatt' (leaf) from a single sheet appears in Part 2 'Das Flechten' of 'Die Frobelschen Beschaftigungen' by Marie Muller-Wunderlich, which was published by Friedrich Brandstetter in Leipzig in 1910.

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1935

'Origami Moyo, Book One', by Kawarazaki Kodo, which was published by Unsodo in Japan in 1935, contained several prints showing designs for various kinds of leaves.

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1935

'Origami Moyo, Book Two' by Kawarazaki Kodo, which was published in Japan in 1935, contains a print showing an unidentified leaf.

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