| The Public Paperfolding History Project
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page is being used to collect information about the
history of folded paper dragonflies. 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. ********** 1845 A design for a Dragonfly, folded from the slit hexagon base, appears in the 'Kan No Mado', which is usually dated to 1845.
********** 1896 Part 2 of 'The Republic of Childhood', titled 'Froebel's Occupations', by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, which was published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, of Boston and New York in 1896, contains reference to 'an airy dragonfly' among specimens of work from the Empress's kindergarten in Tokyo.
********** The Cut Dragonfly - 1931 onwards
********** 1935 'Origami Moyo, Book One', by Kawarazaki Kodo, which was published by Unsodo in Japan in 1935, contained two prints showing dragonflies, the second of which is probably intended to be the Cut Dragonfly.
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********** Another Cut Dragonfly - 1959 onwards
********** 1964 'Secrets of Origami', by Robert Harbin, which was published by Oldbourne Book Company in London in 1964, contains diagrams for Ligia Montoya's attempt at reconstructing the Kan No Mado Dragonfly. The text mentions that 'Senorita Ligia Montoya has produced a dragonfly without making any cuts.'
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