Froebel Antique Kindergarten Paper Cut of the Week #2 (Double-sided)
I recently listed a bunch of these (further down in the "just in" section of listings)--but a bunch can be overwhelming, and I find them each quite singular, so decided to list just a couple individually this week that to me feel most aligned with other things I'm listing today. And so, this one, double sided, and both sides I think equally strong, with the pink and blue side feeling to me like a perfect complement to the tumbling blocks doll quilt I've listed today, but both sides of this one also making me think of technology, and architecture; entrances and walls, permeability and exclusion, etc etc. etc. This/these represent sophisticated examples of kindergarten inventor Friedrich Froebel's (1782 - 1852) "Gift 13", paper cutting-- made using Froebel's proscribed "cutting papers," which were produced in the U.S. by Milton Bradley among others. The learning focus of cut paper works was about the transformation of materials, and the project here was to use all of the pieces from t