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 <
origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> 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.
> karenmre...@gmail.com
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> cc e.smith@ pickering-chatto.com
>
>
> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:21:20 +
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>
>> *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
>>
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>> contact me directly (e.sm...@pickering-chatto.com).
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>
> *Ed Smith*
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