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| Trabajos Manuales y Juegos Infantiles by Francisco Blanch, 1923 | |||||||
| 'Trabajos
Manuales y Juegos Infantiles' by Francisco Blanch was
published by I. G. Seix y Barral Hermanos S.A.- Editores
in Barcelona in 1923 and had 227 pages. It subsequently appeared in various other editions, the 2nd in 1928 (230 pages), the 3rd in 1933 (230 pages), the 4th in 1940 and the 5th in 1950 (224 pages). The information on this page is taken from the 1950 5th edition, but the consistency in the page count suggests that the contents of the book had remained largely unchanged since the original edition was published. Curiously, from the 3rd edition onwards the name of the author is given as Pedro Blanch rather than Francisco Blanch. Much of the material in the book is of the fold and cut / cardboard modelling variety, but there is a brief chapter of pure origami titled 'Pajaritas y otros juguetes' and other material of interest elsewhere. I have not recorded the cardboard modelling material here. There is also asection on designs that can be woven from palm leaves, which I have also not recorded. The information on this page comes largely from Juan Gimeno, to whom my thanks. ********** Analysis From the chapter 'Pajaritas y otros juguetes' La Barca - The Paper Boat Note that this version is folded from a square.
********** La Pajarita - The Cocotte / Pajarita
********** El Pez -
********** El Carro -
********** El Salero - The Salt Cellar
********** Bonete -
********** Pajaro con Alas Moviles - The Flapping Bird
********** La Rana
********** From other chapters Cometa - Flyable Kite
********** Papelinas - Paper Cones This section shows how to make basic Grocer's Cones and how one can be used as a hat.
********** Blowpipe and Darts
********** Chasqueadores -
********** Un pequeno monigote - Don Simon
********** How to Cover a Book
********** Una flecha de papel - The Paper Dart
********** The Witch's Ladder About this design the text says, 'In the same way that we build worms with palm leaves, we can make them with strips of paper'.
********** El Molinete - The Cut and Fold Windmill
********** El Gorro - About this design the text says, 'We are going to explain how that material, the hat, is constructed, A piece of paper of any kind will suffice, which has a square shape and about two spans on each side. By folding it suitably a hat like the one seenin Fig A is made.' No more detailed folding instructions are provided.
********** El Paracaidos - The Paper Parachute
********** Sardana (a Catalan form of circle dance) - Ring of Dolls
********** Fold and Cut Patterns
********** Fold, Cut and Fold Figures
********** Accordion Pleated Lanterns
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