I just ran across a reference to paper bags in a late 17th century pharmacy manual. * That got me curious about their history and led me to this lovely photograph of a a London "paper bag baron" wearing a a traditional paper hat.
http://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/14/paul-gardner-paper-bag-baron/img_7618/ Did anyone ever respond to David Lister's request for traditional methods of folding early paper bags, in his great essay, "Fastening Bags," on The Lister LIst?http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/lister/bags.php Karen 7/5/2013 * Samuel Dale, Pharmacologia (Sam. Smith, London, 1693, and many later editions), p. 28: "Sacculi, Little Bags. Ex charta, &tc, confecta [made from paper, etc]" Googlebooks digital facsimile: http://books.google.com/books?id=llc9AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Samuel+Dale+Pharmacologia+1693&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NuHWUaK6JtX-4APO44DYDg&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAg Karen Reeds, co-ringleader (historian of science and medicine when I'm not folding) Princeton Public Library Origami Group karenmre...@gmail.com http://www.princetonlibrary.org/events/2013/03/origami-club c/o Ann Woodrow, Youth Services 609.924.9529 x240 Free! All welcome! We provide paper! Beginners welcome! Kids under 8, please bring a grownup. Next meeting, Princeton, New Jersey, Wed., July 10, 6:30-8pm -- Laura Kruskal teaching her models.
