Wow! Thank you Karen! This is the type of thing for which I am capable of putting everything aside until I unravel the making! So beautiful!
Do you have the link to Ann Cullen’s bio? I couldn’t find it in the Pickering-chatting.com site. Thanks! Laura On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:40 PM Karen Reeds via Origami < [email protected]> wrote: > 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] >
