| The Public Paperfolding History Project
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| The Woven Basket | |||||||
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page is being used to collect information about the
history of the design known as The Woven Basket, which is
an example of a design made by the Free Weaving
technique.. 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. ********** 1873 As far as I know this design first appears in 'Die Praxis Des Kindergartens' by August Koehler, which was published by Herman Bohlau in Weimar in 1873, and in fact the author claims that it is his original design.
The top paragraph on page 68 reads, roughly translated, 'The second type of bookmark is made by using only loose strips and omitting the weaving sheet. ... Since the establishment of the Froebel kindergartens, this kind of braiding in paper, which appears to be very old, has been more cultivated and expanded by myself. Thus in particular ... the charming basket (Plate XXX, Fig 16), the ship (Plate XXXI, Fig 21) and several other related shapes have been invented.'
********** 1886 A similar design appears in the second ediion of 'Des Kindes Erste Beschaftigungsbuch' by E Barth and W Niederley, which was pulished in 1886.
********** 1890 In 'Le travail manuel a l'ecole et dans la famille' by MM, Bertrand, Toussaint and Gombert, which was published by Loucene, Oudin et ces Editeurs in Paris in 1890.
********** 1911 The Woven Basket also appears in 'Häusliche Kleinkunst und Bastelarbeit in Wort und Bild' by Hermann Pfeiffer, which was published by Verlag von Hermann Zieger in Leipzig in 1911.
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