Antique Kindergarten Paper Weaving in Greens landscape painting with man with the silk still held

with the silk still held very taut all the way around

This one is certainly that

I'm a sucker for nice old wooden blocks

and drilling holes in the lid the most perfectly direct way of making the board

2 1/16” t x 1 1/4” w x 1 7/16” d and in very good condition

Antique Kindergarten Paper Weaving in Greens landscape painting with man with the silk still heldA lovely example of a late 19th early 20th c. kindergarten woven paper "beauty form" using Froebel's 14th Gift weaving papers. Celadon green paper woven into darker green, and mounted to tan. For Froebel, paper weaving was a means of teaching "counting, progression, method, composition, planning and creativity" [Norman Brosterman, Inventing Kindergarten] as well as, perhaps most importantly, color. 5 1 16" x 4 3 8", very good condition.