The Public Paperfolding History Project
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Les Jeux de Jeunes Garcons | |||||||
'Les Jeux de Jeunes Garcons' with illustrations by Xavier Le Prince (otherwise known as Xavier Leprince) was published in Paris in 1822. It contains an illustration showing a boy playing with Capuchins and mentions using folded playing cards to weight / decorate the tail of a kite. Information from Juan Gimeno. A full copy of the work can be accessed online here. ********** ********** Playing Card Monks / Capuchins de Cartes The accompanying text reads 'The cards offer children amusements of more than one kind; they make castles, boxes, chains, little cutouts they call capuchins; they place these so that if one drops, all the others fall in a row.' ********** Kite Bows
The accompanying text reads 'At the bottom of the kite hangs a long tail made from a string to which are attached, from distance to distance, folded and flattened cards or half cards; the tail terminates in a kind of cut paper tassel.' ********** |
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