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'Teacher's Manual for Prang's Shorter Course in Form Study and Drawing, by John S Clark, Mary Dana Hicks and Walter S Perry was published by The Prang Educational Company in Boston, New York and Chicago in 1888.

This book was published as a manual accompanying five 'drawing books' which, inter alia, contained templates referred to in the manual. I have not seen these 'drawing books'.

A full copy of the work can be accessed online here.

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Analysis

Paperfolding is used:

1. As a way of weakening the paper so that part of it can be detached:

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2. To teach some basic mathematical concepts:

Demonstrating that there are three kinds of corners - square, sharp and blunt

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Bisection

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Division into thirds

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3. As a way of cutting symmetrical vase forms

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4. To create a flat template for a cube:

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5. To create models for drawing exercises from irregular templates printed in the 'drawing-books':

There are templates for the cube, an envelope, a toy house, a square pyramid and a hexagonal pyramid.

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Fold and Cut, Tab and Pocket Designs - The Mailing Envelope

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