Tissage Imagé

Title

Tissage Imagé

Description

1900? Tissage Imagé. Six completed woven paper images and two not yet completed. About 7" square. CFC 2020.0148.1.1. F.N. Paris. Unknown source.

About six months ago, I catalogued an extraordinary and delicate single piece presenting TH found by Bertrand Cocq, a woven paper picture puzzle formed by weaving twelve strips of paper through a perforated sheet to create a picture. Now six months later, I discover that I had a set of eight of them that I had purchased sometime earlier – who knows where and for how much? – beautifully boxed and called “Tissage Imagé.” I have left the overhanging paper strips on FG so that you can sense how these puzzles work. I also present both the the lovely original box and a sample of what the two portions of "The Horse and the Ass" look like before the second is cut into strips. Seven of the eight fables are from La Fontaine. “The Blind Man and the Lame,” known as a story in antiquity, is best known to the French from Florian’s presentation. I will be so hoping that I can locate the record of when and where I got this set!

Date

1900?

Subject

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Tissage Imagé See all items with this value

The Fox and the Grapes See all items with this value

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