Paper-weaving.- Two albums containing 60 examples of paper-weaving, or mat-plaiting, in various colors and patterns, woven glazed coloured papers, mounted on sheets folding concertina-style into card covers, titled "Preliminary Mats" and "Mats" in ink manuscript on upper covers, with 24 and 36 specimens respectively, rubbed, soiled and spotted, corners worn, small 4to, [1870s/'80s].
⁂ Pattern activity books inspired by Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel (1782-1852) who devised the kindergarten system for young children in Germany. Believing in education through play he designed various Fröbelgaben (pattern activity books, geometric building blocks etc.). The first album of "Preliminary Mats" show simple designs in one or two colours against a white ground; the second album is divided into sections labelled "Number Mats", "Simple Pictures", "Step Patterns", "Compound Number Mats", and "Patterns", all in pink and black paper and increasingly complex.
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