2/15/2023 I spotted these lovely examples of cut-paper Woven Hearts in an antiquarian bookdealer's announcement: *Download image here: * https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Images/Puzzle_Hearts.jpg
I suspect the left-hand model may have been made by a novice, rather than by Lady Ann Cullen. I learned a slightly more complex version when I was a kid. You can find lots of examples and tutorials online (sometimes called Danish or Swedish Woven Hearts). But the right-hand model is clearly by a virtuoso paper-cutter. From the bio, Lady Cullen would have been in her early 20s when she folded this for a charity fair. It would certainly take me a lot of time to figure out how to reverse-engineer it from the image. Maybe by next Valentine's Day? Karen Karen Reeds, ringleader, Princeton Public Library Origami Group. [email protected] Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/ On Hiatus during pandemic. Princeton Public Library info: 609.924.9529 http://www.princetonlibrary.org/ cc e.smith@ <[email protected]>pickering-chatto.com <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:21:20 +0000 > > From: Ed Smith <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] COMMERCIAL POST: Fountain of Love Fan; Lady >> Callum's >> >> Puzzle Hearts; Lottery Game - Pickering & Chatto >> >> DO NOT USE YOUR EMAIL REPLY FUNCTION TO RESPOND TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT – >> >> PLEASE MAKE SURE ANY MESSAGES COMES TO [email protected] AND >> ARE >> >> NOT SENT TO THE ENTIRE LIST. Thank you. >> >> >>>> > *Souvenir from a charity fair* *[LATHBURY, Ellenor Jane].* LADY CULLUM’S PUZZLE HEARTS. [Bury St Edmunds, > Suffolk]. 1830. *£ 300* *Three delicately cut paper hearts (in green, pink and gold) loosely > inserted in to folded paper pocket, titled as above.* A souvenir of the Bury Charity Fair held at Bury St Edmunds in 1830. Lady Ann Cullum (1807-1875) of Hardwick House in Suffolk was clearly > producing clever scissors work with coloured paper. Some of the examples > were then no doubt purchased by Ellenor Jane Lathbury (d. 1859). She was a > daughter of the Rev. Peter Lathbury, Rector of Rector of Livermere Magna - > incidentally the ghost story writer M.R James was brought up at the rectory > there - and Parva. Probably Ann and Ellenor knew each other quite well for > Lady Callum’s father-in-law and Peter Lathbury sat together dispensing > justice through the Bury magistrates court earlier in the century. Such delicate and dextrous handwork, considered trivial as much of such > handicraft was, survives rather precariously today. > *Download image here: * > https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Images/Puzzle_Hearts.jpg > >>>> > If you have any questions, or wish to reserve or order any item, please > contact me directly ([email protected]). *Ed Smith* > *Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers1 St. Clement's > CourtLondonEC4N 7HBUK* Tel: +44 (0) 207 337 2225 > e-mail: [email protected] > website: www.pickering-chatto.com > *Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers (founded 1820), are membersof > the ABA, PBFA and ILAB.* from Karen Reeds [email protected]
