| Thank you Karen for the Lady Cullum finding. Her paper heart is incredible!
And thank you Madonna for sharing your diagrams. I’ll try them.
Many years ago there was a lovely handmade book or PDF with many many woven heart options. If I find the PDF I’ll be happy to share. Best
On Feb 16, 2023, at 00:37, madonna <mado...@gatheringfolds.com> wrote:
It appears that the heart on the right was cut from a single sheet, with alternating strips either folded or left in place on both the top and bottom of the shape. The folded strips on the bottom were folded up above the top while the folded strips on the top were folded back behind the bottom. These layers were then interwoven where possible.
I've attached some woven heart variants that I came up with a few years back - there's really no limit to what shapes can be woven!
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On Feb 15 2023, at 4:43 pm, laura S via Origami <origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> wrote:
Wow! Thank you Karen! This is the type of thing for which I am capable of putting everything aside until I unravel the making! So beautiful!
Do you have the link to Ann Cullen’s bio? I couldn’t find it in the Pickering-chatting.com site.
Thanks!
Laura 2/15/2023
I spotted these lovely examples of cut-paper Woven Hearts in an antiquarian bookdealer's announcement:
I suspect the left-hand model may have been made by a novice, rather than by Lady Ann Cullen. I learned a slightly more complex version when I was a kid. You can find lots of examples and tutorials online (sometimes called Danish or Swedish Woven Hearts).
But the right-hand model is clearly by a virtuoso paper-cutter. From the bio, Lady Cullen would have been in her early 20s when she folded this for a charity fair. It would certainly take me a lot of time to figure out how to reverse-engineer it from the image. Maybe by next Valentine's Day?
Karen
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*Souvenir from a charity fair*
*[LATHBURY, Ellenor Jane].* LADY CULLUM’S PUZZLE HEARTS. [Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk]. 1830. *£ 300* *Three delicately cut paper hearts (in green, pink and gold) loosely
inserted in to folded paper pocket, titled as above.* A souvenir of the Bury Charity Fair held at Bury St Edmunds in 1830. Lady Ann Cullum (1807-1875) of Hardwick House in Suffolk was clearly
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were then no doubt purchased by Ellenor Jane Lathbury (d. 1859). She was a
daughter of the Rev. Peter Lathbury, Rector of Rector of Livermere Magna -
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handicraft was, survives rather precariously today.
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