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Last updated 20/1/2026

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Multiple Sheet Representational Designs
 
This page is being used to collect information about the history of Multiple Sheet Representational Designs (representational designs made from multiple compact paper shapes). Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other important information that should be added. Thank you.

There is a separate page for Compound Animals and Human Figures made by combining Bird Bases using glue.

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La Voiture de Cartes - 1725 onwards

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The Pencil Case - 1876 onwards

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The Pagoda - 1928 onwards

'Fun with Paperfolding' by William D Murray and Francis J Rigney which was published by the Fleming H Revell Company, New York in 1928, contains diagrams for the Pagoda, a design made by stacking successively smaller, but otherwise identical, paperfolds on top of each other.

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The same book also contains diagrams for a Dog made by combining three 'shirtwaists', more commonly known as the jacket from the Suit of Clothes.

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The Three-Piece Purse - 1959 onwards

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