[Origami] Origami history, tangentially -- a media/design history of the cardboard box and the Container Corporation of America (CCA)

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

10/27/2023

I just came across this thought-provoking essay by Justus Nieland,
"Container Culture: Film, Packaging, and the Design of Corporate Humanism
at the CCA." online open-access magazine, *Post45*, Issue 6: Midcentury
Design Cultures, 02.12.21.anism at the CCA

https://post45.org/2021/02/container-culture-film-packaging-and-the-design-of-corporate-humanism-at-the-cca/

The folded/cut paperboard containers that surround us usually get taken for
granted. Origami folks are also likely to see them as raw material for our
own paperfolding. This fascinating essay reveals the connections between
World War II packaging innovations,  modernist Bauhaus designers (eg
Moholy-Nagy, Kepes), and changes in corporate culture in late 20th C
America.
Includes Video clips from the industrial films by Rhodes Patterson, The
Packaging System (1963) and others, and lots of fascinating illustrations,
with occasional glimpses of folded/cut paper designs.

By chance I also had just read the equally interesting few pages on the
history of corrugated cardboard and cardstock boxes in *The Secret History
of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of American Supermarkets*, by Benjamin Lorr
(2020), pp 26-28.

Karen
Karen Reeds
Princeton Public Library Origami Group [on pandemic hiatus]
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/

from Karen Reeds
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[Origami] Origami history --- Napkin folding and examples/video by Joan Sallas, in Bard Graduate Center exhibition, Staging the Table

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

How I wish I'd known about this show in time to see it in person!
https://exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu/stagingthetable/folding-by-the-book/
(Did I miss an announcement on the Origami Mailing List?)

Karen

Karen Reeds,  ringleader
Princeton Public Library Origami Group
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
ON HIATUS DURING PANDEMIC

Karen Reeds
karenmre...@gmail.com

[Origami] Origami sighting —Hooked on Books | Harvard Graduate School of Education

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

11/9/2023
I’m always a sucker for poverty folds, but this collage illustration by Melinda 
Beck is a particularly lovely example.

Look closely— not just birds!

(Good reading for all Harry Potter fans, too.)

Karen

Karen Reeds, Ringleader
Princeton Public Library Origami Group
( on hiatus during pandemic)
karenmre...@gmail.com


https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/ed-magazine/23/11/hooked-books


Sent from my iPhone

[Origami] website for gorgeous paper -- decorated endpapers in old books in University of Modena law library

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

July 5, 2022
Hi, folders,

http://www.fondiantichi.unimore.it/FA/lega/legature_table_carte.html  *Carte
decorate della Biblioteca universitaria giuridica*

You can print out these beautiful patterns of marbled and woodblock
endpapers and cut them to the size you want.
I made my Silhouette Crane from this woodblock print
http://www.fondiantichi.unimore.it/FA/lega/FA0547.html
and sent a photos as a thank you to the  Modena librarian who created the
website -- I'm sure Andrea Lodi would enjoy seeing what you use them for!
(If you can read Italian, the headnotes to the patterns are,in themselves, an
education in  the history of endpapers .)

Happy folding!

Karen

Posted to ExLibris-L

> Andrea LODI < > wrote:

Dear all,


you can now find online a series of

http://www.fondiantichi.unimore.it/FA/lega/legature_table_carte.html


Main features:

- home-made, with connected limitations and maybe freedom;

- decorated papers are seen together with the other parts of the bindings:

if for example they are endpapers, you will see them with images from

boards, spine, maybe edges;

- you will always find links to images of the title pages of all the works

found inside those bindings.


Thank you in advance for your attention, for any comment or suggestion,and

for signalling any mistake you will find in our descriptions (in case you

can read Italian: at the moment there's not an English version, sorry).


Please do not use your email reply function to respond. Write to me (

andrea.l...@unimore.it) or to the library (bibg...@unimore.it), non to

the entire list.


Best wishes,

Andrea Lodi

Biblioteca universitaria giuridica

Via Camatta 16

41121 Modena


tel. +39 059 2058721 - email: andrea.l...@unimore.it

from Karen Reeds
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[Origami] Fwd: [SHARP-L] Zoom Folding the Page’ at Tate Britain, London, 25 November 2022, 1-5pm.

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

Hi, paperfolders
Here’s a follow-up to my earlier message about the issue ‘Folds’ of the new 
journal, Inscription —an afternoon , exploring the histories and potentials of 
the fold. 

Karen  10/26/2022

Karen Reeds,  ringleader
Princeton Public Library Origami Group 
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
(On hiatus during pandemic)

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Adam Smyth 
> ‘Folding the Page’ at Tate Britain, London, 25 November 2022, 1-5pm. 
> Issue 3 of Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, 
> History, edited by Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Simon Morris, is all about 
> folds. To mark the launch of this issue, there will be an afternoon of talks, 
> discussions and hands-on demonstrations exploring the histories and 
> potentials of the fold, showcasing highlights from Tate Library. 
> Details and free tickets via 
> https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/folding-the-page 
> Journal available for purchase here.
> 
> 
> Adam Smyth, FSA
> Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book
> Director of Undergraduate Studies I Faculty of English
> Fellow in English I Balliol College I Oxford University
> 
> President I Oxford Bibliographical Society
> Co-editor I Inscription: the Journal of Material Text -- Theory, Practice, 
> History
> Weekly mini-essays I https://adamsmyth.substack.com/
> 
> From: Adam Smyth 
> Sent: 14 April 2021 18:31
> To: shar...@indiana.edu ; shar...@list.indiana.edu 
> 
> Subject: TEXT!
>  
> Diversionary reading!
> 
> My weekly(ish) short essays at adamsmyth.substack.com usually have a bookish 
> / archival theme; if you like tumbling down rabbit holes, they might be for 
> you. Recent topics include notebooks, printing errors, cut-and-paste texts, 
> found diaries, and avant-garde magazine publishing.
> 
> Adam
> 
> Adam Smyth
> Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book
> Tutor for Graduate Admissions
> Balliol College, Oxford University
> Co-editor Inscription: the Journal of Material Text -- Theory, Practice, 
> History

[Origami] 1935 book Origami moyō / by Kawarasaki Kodo cho -- now digitized by UPenn Libraries; exhibition and symposium on Japanese illustrated books and Tress Collection

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

September 23, 2022

Here's a visual treat: a digitized copy of a beautiful accordion-fold
origami book from 1935, now in the Tress Collection, University of
Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia. The curator, Lynne Farrington, tells
me that only a small part of the collection has been fully catalogued and
even less digitized so far, so there may well be more origami.

Meanwhile, there's an exhibition and an upcoming virtual/in-person
symposium about the collector, the photographer Arthur Tress, and his
collection (see announcement below).

For much more about Origami moyō, Books One and Two, see David Mitchell's
invaluable posts at Origami Heaven:
 http://www.origamiheaven.com/historyorigamimoyobookone.htm
https://www.origamiheaven.com/historyorigamimoyobooktwo.htm


Here's the link to UPenn's digital copy of Book One (two-page spreads) and
catalogue entry:
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p33x83w3m
Origami moyō / Kawarasaki Kodo cho.

[image: Sha256e s4629
bb15592c85883d9dbc5da54854793cacfa4c55ddc9af0498910fca783a15c8f4]

Title:Origami moyō / Kawarasaki Kodo cho.Subject:Paper art -- Japan --
Design.; Origami -- Japan -- Design.; Paper art.; Accordion fold format
(Binding)Description:Kislak Center Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated
Books copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018.Corporate Name:United
Nations. Statistical Division. publisher.; Arthur Tress Collection of
Japanese Illustrated Books (University of Pennsylvania)Date:1935Language:
JapaneseCreator:Kawarasaki, Kōdō, author.Publisher:Kyoto : Unsōdō;
Showa 10 [1935]Rights:http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/
Collection:Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books
(University of Pennsylvania)Call Number:Box 81, Item 4

> From: Farrington, Lynne 
> Date: Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 3:34 PM
> Subject: [SHARP-L] Upcoming exhibition and symposium: Arthur Tress and the
> Japanese Illustrated Book, Sept 29-30
> To: shar...@list.indiana.edu 



> Announcing the exhibition and opening symposium (hybrid-virtual and in
> person) celebrating the Japanese illustrated book collection of the
> contemporary photographer Arthur Tress, which will be presented in
> conversation with a selection of his photographs. The exhibition and
> symposium are free and open to the public, though registration is required
> to attend the symposium.

https://www.library.upenn.edu/tress



 Karen Reeds
Karen Reeds,  ringleader
Princeton Public Library Origami Group (on hiatus during pandemic)
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
karenmre...@gmail.com

cc: Lynne Farrington

[Origami] Origami, paper airplanes, and other paper constructions -- Fwd: Free Tools to Teach Engineering Design (fwd Science Buddies)

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

The ideas here might be useful for anyone who has kids to teach or amuse.
See  also
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/paper-science-activities?from=Newsletter
for the paper airplanes lesson plan.

Karen
Karen Reeds,  ringleader
Princeton Public Library Origami Group
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
ON HIATUS DURING PANDEMIC

karenmre...@gmail.com

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[Origami] origami symbolism sighting --- "A Thousand Cranes for India: Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred, "

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

8/15/2022
Spotted on the University of Chicago e-book sale just now -- a book
inspired by the symbolism of the origami crane:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo50460825.html
The cover illustration is an ingenious melding of images invoking both
peacocks and origami cranes.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo50460825.html
I haven't read the book yet, but I applaud the theme!

Happy folding! Keep safe!
Karen

=
DISTRIBUTED FOR Seagull Books
Cover copy:
A Thousand Cranes for India

Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred

Edited by Pallavi Aiyar

In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes
will have their wishes realized. But folding cranes, and the meditative,
solemn care that it involves, has come to mean more than just an exercise
in wish making. Origami cranes have become a symbol of renewal, atonement,
and warning. Their symbolism may have emerged out of Japan’s particular
mythology and history, but they do not belong to any one nation. The crane
is a migratory bird that crosses borders and makes its home with scant
regard to the blood-soaked lines that humans have drawn on maps.

This anthology uses origami cranes as a way for some of India’s best-known
writers, poets, and artists to form a shared civic space for a conversation
about the fault lines in India at a time of darkness. The twenty-three
pieces collected here encompass reportage, stories, poems, memoir, and
polemic—the kind of complex and enriching diversity that India demands and
deserves. The paper crane becomes a motif of connection, beauty, and
reclamation in an otherwise degraded country, enabling those who fight with
words to become the best army they can be.
___
176 pages | 5 1/2 x 7 3/4
The India List
FICTION
Literature and Literary Criticism: GENERAL CRITICISM AND CRITICAL THEORY

 (Here's a link to the complete sale catalogue:
whole sale catalogue:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/virtualCatalog/vc106.html?utm_source=newsletter_medium=email_content=75%25%20Off%20E-Book%20Sale%3A%20use%20code%20EBOOK75_campaign=D2C%2075%25%20Off%20E-Book%20Sale%20-%208/15/2022%28morning%29%20Winning%20Version
)


___
Karen Reeds,  ringleader
Princeton Public Library Origami Group  ON HIATUS during pandemic
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
We usually meet 2nd Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8pm, First Floor, Quiet
Room. Free!
We provide paper! All welcome! (Kids under 8, please bring a grown-up.)
Princeton Public Library info:  609.924.9529
https://princetonlibrary.org/

karenmre...@gmail.com

[Origami] woven crochet heart ? Thanks! Re: Origami Digest, Vol 202, Issue 17

[Karen Reeds via Origami]


2/27/2023
Thank you, Wanderer Vishakha ! That almost tempts me to learn how to crochet!

Karen 


Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 27, 2023, at 12:00 PM, origami-request@com
> 
> Today's Topics:
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> 
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> Subject: [Origami] woven crochet heart ?
> 
> 
> https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoopKVYIBU1/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
> 
> We were talking about woven paper hearts? well, here?s a woven crochet heart! 
> 
> 
> enjoy 
> Vishakha
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Re: [Origami] early Victorian-era "kirigami" -- LADY CULLUM’S PUZZLE HEARTS (1830) [ fwd ExLibris-L]

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

2/15/2023

Hi, Laura and Madonna
When and how you succeed, please let me know!

All I know about Lady Ann Cullum (my apologies -- I misspelled her name
originally) came from this bit in the Pickering & CHatto announcement  that
I included:

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
> producing clever scissors work with coloured paper. Some of the examples
> 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 -
> incidentally the ghost story writer M.R James was brought up at the rectory
> there - and Parva. Probably Ann and Ellenor knew each other quite well for
> Lady Callum’s father-in-law and Peter Lathbury sat together dispensing
> justice through the Bury magistrates court earlier in the century.


But googling just turned up this auction house's account of Lady Ann
Cullum  and her journals, letters, drawings (auctioned by Sworders in
2018, 2019):
https://www.sworder.co.uk/news/the-diaries-of-a-lady/
and descriptions of individual lots, although not the cut-paper puzzle
hearts:
https://www.sworder.co.uk/auction/search/?ic=False=0=25=-1=lady%20cullum=0=842=False=1

and her portrait:
https://www.sworder.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-556---circle-of-charles-robert-leslie-1794-1859portrait-of-lady-cullum/?lot=237458=4=Cullum=0False=1=96=1=1
She was very well connected and knew all kinds of interesting writers and
scientists of her day (Charles Babbage!).

Time for bed!

Karen

from Karen Reeds
karenmre...@gmail.com


On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:44 PM laura S  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
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:40 PM Karen Reeds via Origami <
> origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> wrote:
>
>> 2/15/2023
>>
>> I spotted these lovely examples of cut-paper Woven Hearts  in an
>> antiquarian bookdealer's announcement:
>> *Download image here: *
>> https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Images/Puzzle_Hearts.jpg
>>
>> 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
>> Karen Reeds, ringleader, Princeton Public Library Origami Group.
>> karenmre...@gmail.com
>> Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
>> On Hiatus during pandemic.
>> Princeton Public Library info:  609.924.9529
>> http://www.princetonlibrary.org/
>>
>> cc e.smith@ pickering-chatto.com
>> 
>>
>> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:21:20 +
>>>
>>> From: Ed Smith 
>>>>
>>>> Subject: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] COMMERCIAL POST: Fountain of Love Fan; Lady
>>>> Callum's
>>>>
>>>>  Puzzle Hearts; Lottery Game - Pickering & Chatto
>>>>
>>>> DO NOT USE YOUR EMAIL REPLY FUNCTION TO RESPOND TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT –
>>>>
>>>> PLEASE MAKE SURE ANY MESSAGES COMES TO e.sm...@pickering-chatto.com AND
>>>> ARE
>>>>
>>>> NOT SENT TO THE ENTIRE LIST. Thank you.
>>>>
>>>>
>> >>>>
>>
>>
>>> *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
>>> producing clever scissors work with coloured paper. Some of the examples
>>> 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
>>> -
>>> incidentally the ghost story writ

Re: [Origami] early Victorian-era "kirigami" -- LADY CULLUM’S PUZZLE HEARTS (1830) [ fwd ExLibris-L]

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

Dear Madonna and Laura

I'm sure you're right, Madonna. When you make one of your own, please share
pictures and directions. Your  versions of the simpler woven heart are
great!

Laura, all I know about Lady Ann Cullen is what's in the Pickering & Chatto
description that I quoted. My guess is that, starting from the envelope
inscription, they searched genealogies and reference works on the English
Peerage and noble families. By Googling, I found a few references to Lady
Ann Cullen, but they aren't very helpful.

Glad you liked it as much as I did,

In haste,
Karen

 Karen Reeds
karenmre...@gmail.com


On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:13 PM madonna  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!
>
>
> 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
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:40 PM Karen Reeds via Origami <
>> origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2/15/2023
>>
>> I spotted these lovely examples of cut-paper Woven Hearts  in an
>> antiquarian bookdealer's announcement:
>> *Download image here: *
>> https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Images/Puzzle_Hearts.jpg
>>
>> 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
>> Karen Reeds, ringleader, Princeton Public Library Origami Group.
>> karenmre...@gmail.com
>> Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
>> On Hiatus during pandemic.
>> Princeton Public Library info:  609.924.9529
>> http://www.princetonlibrary.org/
>>
>> cc e.smith@ pickering-chatto.com
>> 
>>
>> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:21:20 +
>>
>> From: Ed Smith 
>>
>> Subject: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] COMMERCIAL POST: Fountain of Love Fan; Lady
>> Callum's
>>
>>  Puzzle Hearts; Lottery Game - Pickering & Chatto
>>
>> DO NOT USE YOUR EMAIL REPLY FUNCTION TO RESPOND TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT –
>>
>> PLEASE MAKE SURE ANY MESSAGES COMES TO e.sm...@pickering-chatto.com AND
>> ARE
>>
>> NOT SENT TO THE ENTIRE LIST. Thank you.
>>
>>
>> >>>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>> producing clever scissors work with coloured paper. Some of the examples
>> 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 -
>> incidentally the ghost story writer M.R James was brought up at the
>> rectory
>> there - and Parva. Probably Ann and Ellenor knew each other quite well for
>> Lady Callum’s father-in-law and Peter Lathbury sat together dispensing
>> justice through the Bury magistrates court earlier in the century.
>>
>>
>> Such delicate and dextrous handwork, considered trivial as much of such
>> handicraft was, survives rather precariously today.
>> *Download image here: *
>> https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Images/Puzzle_Hearts.jpg
>> >>>>
>> If you have any questions, or wish to reserve or order any item, please
>> contact me directly (e.sm...@pickering-chatto.com).
>>
>>
>> *Ed Smith*
>> *Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers1   St. Clement's
>> CourtLondonEC4N 7HBUK*
>>
>> Tel:  +44 (0) 207 337 2225
>> e-mail: e.sm...@pickering-chatto.com
>> website: www.pickering-chatto.com
>> *Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers (founded 1820), are membersof
>> the ABA, PBFA and ILAB.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> from Karen Reeds
>> karenmre...@gmail.com
>>
>>

[Origami] "Playful Design" -- not origami, but wonderful Japanese paper and textile designs 18th, 19th, 20th C patterns, stencils

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

4/6/2023 Hi, paperfolders Give your eyes and sense of humor a treat with these samples from historical paper and textile designs (in a catalogue from a Tokyo-based antiquarian bookseller, Hozuki Books.) Spotted on ExLibris-L KarenKaren ReedsPrinceton Public Library Origami Group (on hiatus during pandemic)https://www.hozukibooks.com/pdfs/Playful_Design_Hozuki_Books_April_2023.pdfExLibris-L post:Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 23:56:03 +0900From: Rose Counsell Subject: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] COMMERCIAL POST - Playful design: amusing textile patterns by famous artists...Dear all,A catalogue featuring books of humorous patterns by acclaimed artists isavailable at the link below. The PDF catalogue is interactive - clickingon a title or picture will take you to the Hozuki Books website, whereitems can be ordered directly.https://www.hozukibooks.com/pdfs/Playful_Design_Hozuki_Books_April_2023.pdfHighlights include woodblock-printed collections of amusing textiledesigns by Santo Kyoden, Kamisaka Sekka, Asano Koko, and Furuya Setsuzan.RoseBook HuntressHozuki Booksi...@hozukibooks.comwww.hozukibooks.comfrom Karen Reeds karenmre...@gmail.com

[Origami] Fwd: origami holiday tree at University of Hawaii

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A friend just sent me this link. There are a couple of related links at the 
end of the article. 

Karen 2/10/2023
karenmre...@gmail.com
Princeton Public Library Origami Group 
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
Still on hiatus  during pandemic

> Origami sea creatures adorn holiday tree at UH Hilo’s astronomy center
> 
> https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2015/12/15/origami-sea-creatures-adorn-holiday-tree-at-uh-hilos-astronomy-center/

[Origami] early Victorian-era "kirigami" -- LADY CULLUM’S PUZZLE HEARTS (1830) [ fwd ExLibris-L]

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2/15/2023

I spotted these lovely examples of cut-paper Woven Hearts  in an
antiquarian bookdealer's announcement:
*Download image here: *
https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Images/Puzzle_Hearts.jpg

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
Karen Reeds, ringleader, Princeton Public Library Origami Group.
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On Hiatus during pandemic.
Princeton Public Library info:  609.924.9529
http://www.princetonlibrary.org/

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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
> producing clever scissors work with coloured paper. Some of the examples
> 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 -
> incidentally the ghost story writer M.R James was brought up at the rectory
> there - and Parva. Probably Ann and Ellenor knew each other quite well for
> Lady Callum’s father-in-law and Peter Lathbury sat together dispensing
> justice through the Bury magistrates court earlier in the century.


Such delicate and dextrous handwork, considered trivial as much of such
> handicraft was, survives rather precariously today.
> *Download image here: *
> https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Images/Puzzle_Hearts.jpg
> 
> If you have any questions, or wish to reserve or order any item, please
> contact me directly (e.sm...@pickering-chatto.com).


*Ed Smith*
> *Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers1   St. Clement's
> CourtLondonEC4N 7HBUK*

Tel:  +44 (0) 207 337 2225
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[Origami] Name of the puzzle purse in Spanish?

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

July 9, 2023
Hi, Gerardo

I admire your effort to pin down the right names for traditional origami
models, and I'm grateful for all that I learned as a result of your  puzzle
purse investigations.

But origami nomenclature is a lot like botanical nomenclature before Carl
Linnaeus published *Species Plantarum* in 1753 -- a mess! *

You set us all a good example by carefully documenting the names/creators
of models as much as you can, but I have to agree with Dave's pessimistic
conclusion.

Do tell us, please, what you chose to call the model for your class and how
they liked the model and name.

Best wishes,
Karen
*Karen Reeds and Isabelle Charmantier, "Botany" entry, *Brill's
Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World: Micropaedia*, ed. Philip Ford, Jan
Bloemendal, and Charles Fantazzi (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 933-935.


Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2023 11:20:10 +
> From: David Mitchell 
> To: "origami@lists.digitalorigami.com"
> 
> Subject: [Origami] Name of the puzzle purse in Spanish?


I think we must also be careful not to believe that' traditional' designs
> necessarily had a 'traditional' name.

'La bolsa', for instance, is a title (in Spanish) that only appears once
> (as far as we know) for a design that only appears once in a Spanish book
> (as far as we know, prior to 1970).

Many 'traditional' designs have multiple names in the literature, multiple
> names, that is, in the same language, not just in different languages.

So deciding what a design should properly be called is difficult, if not
> impossible ...


Dave

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[Origami] Name of the puzzle purse in Spanish?

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

7/3/2023
Thank you very much, Gerardo, for the link to David Mitchell’s fascinating
Public Paperfolding History Project--Origami Heaven page about this Puzzle
Purse model (http://www.origamiheaven.com/historyofpuzzlepurses.htm).

Why not use the historical model name, “La Bolsa,” from the 1896 book,
*Repertorio
Completo de Todos los Juegos*, by de Luis Marco y Eugenio de Ochoa y Ronna,
as listed on David Mitchell's page (digitized facsimile:
http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=005049=1  part 3, page 826-827 =
image 833-834)?
You can always include a set of names in other languages, as David
Mitchell's page does. I think it would be interesting to share the La Bolsa
pages and see whether your students can fold the model from them.

If I am reading *Repertorio Completo de Todos los Juegos* (part 3, page 699
following) correctly, it uses the word Rompecabezas to refer to a variety
of brain-teaser puzzles,  not just jigsaw puzzles.

Thanks again and Happy folding!
Karen
cc; David Mitchell

PS As a historian of medicine, I'm struck by the model's use in China as a
"camphor-bag"  -- Origami Heaven's first example. While a mothball-holder
seems plausible, there were medicinal uses for camphor and, as this blog
post explains https://www.goya.in/blog/the-fascinating-story-of-camphor, it
can be used in tiny amounts in cooking for a subtle, distinctive
aroma/flavor.  I'm also grateful to  have learned about the Biblioteca
Digital Hispanica  http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/Inicio.do via OrigamiHeaven.

Karen Reeds, ringleader, Princeton Public Library Origami Group
karenmre...@gmail.com
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
STILL ON PANDEMIC HIATUS
Princeton Public Library info:  609.924.9529
http://www.princetonlibrary.org/

Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 18:58:00 + (UTC)
From: "gera...@neorigami.com" 
To: Origami Lists Digitalorigami 
Subject: [Origami] Name of the puzzle purse in Spanish?


HELLO
I plan to teach this model to Spanish speakers:
http://www.origamiheaven.com/historyofpuzzlepurses.htm
First of all, should I just call it "puzzle purse" in English? I see it
sometimes appears as "Valentine puzzle purse" and some others as "Victorian
puzzle purse". What do you suggest?
In regard to Spanish, have any of you seen any reference to this model?for
example, its diagrams?in a book in said language? How was the model called?
If not, those of you that also now Spanish, how would you translate it? I'd
say both the word "puzzle" and "purse" can be challenging to translate to
Spanish. There's no exact translation for the word "puzzle". "Rompecabezas"
means "jigsaw puzzle", but isn't appropriate for other types of puzzles,
like this purse. It's a similar situation with "purse"; the Spanish word
would depend on the type of "purse".
I'm inclined for "Cartera de ingenio", which would literally mean
"Ingenuity purse". That's as close as I got.

Thank you in advance. If you prefer, you can instead reply privately to my
email address: gerardo(a)neorigami.com
--
Gerardo G.
gerardo(a)neorigami.com
instagram.com/neorigamicomKnowledge and Curiosity in Origami:

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[Origami] Origami program, Newton NJ, Wednesday 6/28/2023, 6:30pm

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6/26/2023 — just spotted this on the events newsletter of League of Historical Societies of New Jersey: Family Origami program, with  Aldo Putignano 6:30 – 8 PM 6/28/2023,  SCAHC Gallery 133 Spring StNewton NJ Preregistration required. Members $10Non members $15Call Andrea for info/registration973—383–0027and...@scahc.orgSussex County Arts and Heritage Council SCAHC.org(From the photos, I’d guess the models are simple-intermediate. )Karenkarenmre...@gmail.comKaren Reeds, RingleaderPrinceton Public Library Origami Group(STILL ON PANDEMIC HIATUS)Princeton Public Library info:  609.924.9529  https://princetonlibrary.org/Sent from my iPhone

[Origami] Trying again Re: Origami reference in The Hip-Hop Issue, New York Times Sunday Magazine 8/13/2023

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

My apologies—Somehow my link to article didn’t work. Here’s the quote by 
itself:

8/13/2023 
“[Flo Milli’s] fizzy falsetto rose and rose as she delved deeper into her 
delivery. Her translucent nails, painted a school-bus yellow, flashed like 
lightsabers as she made elaborate rap hands that unfolded the way origami 
fortunetellers do in grade-school classrooms.”
Niela Orr, “The Future of Rap Is Female,” p35 

The Hip-Hop Issue, New York Times Sunday Magazine 8/13/2023

Karen

Princeton Public Library Origami Group 
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
Still on pandemic hiatus.

[Origami] Origami might qualify! Apply to Works on Paper 2024 Juried Show: DEADLINE MARCH 15 — LBIF

[Karen Reeds via Origami]


Feb 1,2024

Hi, folders

I think origami might fit under the wall-hung paper constructions category for 
this Works On Paper show. But read all the instructions!


https://www.lbifoundation.org/exhibitions/apply-to-works-on-paper-2024

Karen
Karen Reeds, ringleader
Princeton Public Library Origami Group 
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/


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[Origami] Origami hearing: plug for holiday tree at American Museum of Natural History

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

11:40am 11/14/2023
Just heard on WNYC - Bridget Bergen, Gothamist,  on Brian Lehrer Show — program 
about where to take out-of-town guests in New York City. Shea was listing 
holiday trees around town and said of the AMNH origami tree: “my favorite!!!”

Karen
Karen Reeds

Karen Reeds,  ringleader
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Princeton Public Library Origami Group
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
(Still on pandemic hiatus)

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Re: [Origami] Origami Digest, Vol 217, Issue 3

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-Benjamin Rodriguez
Daytona State College, Business Services

paperairplanes >>  books >> librarian gave him 1stForward Scout in military,
ADHD, can fold and listen at same time.
taught origami class in Orlando

155 views May 1, 2024
Rodriquez Benjamin, 40, spent 6 years in the U.S. Army, including two
deployments in Iraq – the first for 15 months and the second for 14
months.from Karen Reeds

share Patton's Lucky Scout, Wayne Martin Memoir

155 views May 1, 2024




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[Origami] apologies for my mysterious email re Benjamin Rodriguez origami video and post "Great origami testimony (Matthew Green)"

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

5/5/2024
Hi, fellow folders

re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YED9ej9lOjk?
*Basic geometry: How this Central Florida Army veteran became a self-taught
origami artist*

I apologize for my klutziness ! I hit the send button by mistake. I was
making notes on the video and trying to figure out how to tell Benjamin
Rodriguez about an amazing World War II memoir by another forward scout
that I thought he'd like.  (My father-in-law, a WW II veteran, loved
hearing me read it to him.) Thank you, Matthew, for sharing it!

So I'll tell all of you in case you know veterans who would be interested
in both the video and the book.

Frank Wayne Martin
https://luckyscout.wordpress.com/about-frank-wayne-martin/
https://luckyscout.wordpress.com/about-the-book/

*Patton’s Lucky Scout:*
*The Adventures of a Forward Observer**for General Patton and the Third
Army in Europe *(2009)
Lots of inexpensive used copies around, and worth every penny.

In haste,

Karen
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Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 14:39:35 -0400
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>> To: origami@lists.digitalorigami.com
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>> Subject: Re: [Origami] Origami Digest, Vol 217, Issue 3
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>> -Benjamin Rodriguez
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> Daytona State College, Business Services
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>> paperairplanes >>  books >> librarian gave him 1stForward Scout in
> military,

ADHD, can fold and listen at same time.
> taught origami class in Orlando
> 155 views May 1, 2024
> Rodriquez Benjamin, 40, spent 6 years in the U.S. Army, including two
> deployments in Iraq ? the first for 15 months and the second for 14
> months.from Karen Reeds
> share Patton's Lucky Scout, Wayne Martin Memoir



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[Origami] Happy Birthday-O! Re: Origami Digest, Vol 217, Issue 19

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

Thank you, Anne, for all the time, enthusiasm, and energy you’ve put into 
making the O-list such a global joy! 

About half an hour before I  saw your post, my 96-year-old aunt was catching  
up on 3 weeks worth of newspapers that had piled up while she was 
in rehab from a bad fall. I couldn’t resist teaching her caregiver, a lovely 
young nursing student, how to make the Traditional Newspaper Hat from the 
recycle pile (with some variations of my own). The caregiver plans to teach her 
little cousins next. 

Happy folding!
Karen

Karen Reeds
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[Origami] Help identifying creator — accordion of diamond-shaped picture frames

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June 22,2024
Hi, Janet
I can’t prove it, but Laura Kruskal comes immediately to mind as the creator. 
She loved creating picture frames!

 If the individual frames are made from 8 ½ x 11 inch rectangles, that would be 
another pointer to LK. 

Laura K created so many elegantly simple useful designs and taught them to so 
many people —but published so few — that her models have often become regarded 
as traditional.

Are there directions online?

Karen
Karen Reeds
Princeton Public Library Origami Group ( on hiatus)


Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:34:57 -0400
From: Janet Hamilton 
To: Origami List 
Subject: [Origami] Help identifying creator

I am trying to help someone identify the creator of the model pictured below. I 
can find it online, but no attribution. Does anyone know the creator ? Is it 
traditional?
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