My mother was in Kindergarten in Hamburg, Germany in 1918. She probably learned a simple standing picture frame there. It was made from the double blintzed square. She also taught me (and then my children) some other simple furniture that was not from a blintz base.
Rachel origamiwithrachelkatz.oriland.com > On Sep 10, 2024, at 10:12 AM, David Mitchell via Origami > <[email protected]> wrote: > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I thought they were always folded from a windmill base. If i understood you >> correctly, they are also made from a blintz fold? You also use the term >> "doubly-blintzed", are you referring to the initial steps to make a fortune >> teller or the windmill base? > > As far as it is possible to tell (since we don't have any of his own writings > on the subject) Froebel's original Folds of Beauty were developed either from > a blintzed square or a doubly blintzed square (a blintzed square that has > been turned over and blintzed again). These are the first two of Froebel's > groundforms (bases) which were also used as the basis of Folds of Life. The > same type of folds developed from the windmill base are a later development, > and are often called Rosettes or Rosaces. > > Remember that Froebel's forms were designed to be folded by kindergarten > children and were thus essentially simple, the original idea being, I > believe, that the children would be shown how a few forms could be developed, > then encouraged to develop their own using the same principles, particularly > the so-called 'law of opposites' ie that symmetry should be maintained. > > Part 2 of Mary Gurney's book Kindergarten Practice (see > kindergartenpractice.htm), published some time after 1873 but before 1877, is > probably the best source of information about which Folds of Beauty should be > attributed to Froebel himself. See pictures 1 to 20 of plate XVI. > > Dave
