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Pleated Designs
 
This top level Topic Page provides links to other Topic Pages containing information about designs of various types made from pleated paper. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

Pleated designs can be uni-directional or bi-directional. Both kinds of designs are included on this page.

Information about pleated designs folded from napkins can be found on the Napkin and Serviette Folding Page.

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Pleated Folding and Circular Fans - Roman times onwards

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Multiple-Image Pleated Paper Pictures - 1661 onwards

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Troublewit - 1676 onwards

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Collapsible Lanterns - c1720 onwards

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Pleated Paper Alphabets - 1863 onwards

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Pleated Paper Lampshades - 1876 onwards

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The Stairs - 1889 onwards

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A design for 'La Jalousie' (Jealousy), a screen for a window, appears in 'Jeux et Travaux Enfantins - Première partie: Le Monde en Papier' by Marie Koenig and Albert Durand was published by Librairie Classique A. Jeande in Paris in 1889.

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The same book also contains a design for 'Le Cuche-pot', which is intended to surround a vase.

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1898

There is a bi-directionally pleated design for 'La Chaise de la princesse' in 'Travaux Recreatifs Pour les Enfants de 4 a 10 Ans' by Marie Koenig, which was published by Librairie Hachette et Cie in Paris in 1898. The author says that the design was folded in front of her by all the children of the 'premiere class de l'ecole maternelle du boulevarde de Belleville, Paris'.

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1957

A series of Troublewit-like pleated designs appears in 'Origami Dokuhon' (Origami Reader) by Akira Yoshizawa, which was published by Ryokuchi-Sha in 1957.

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