{"product_id":"early-20th-century-froebel-kindergarten-accordion-fold-album-paper-weaving-folding-thread-drawing-more-copy","title":"Early 20th Century Froebel Kindergarten Accordion Fold Album: Paper Weaving, Folding, Thread Drawing, More (Copy)","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou know I always have an eye out Froebel kindergarten related material, but it's a rare day when I find a complete accordion fold \"Kindergarten Work\" album, this one with 46 pages (by my count, easy to lose track!) of completed examples of paper weaving, folding, cutting, thread work and a few color studies and watercolor exercises, too. The content\/exercises mounted in these kindergarten albums certainly evolved over time, decade by decade--one might say departing a bit from the rigor and precision of Froebel's program, but, as evident here, also allowing for some wonderful, and wonderfully playful, things to emerge--as with the piece pictured in first photo, for example, combining several cut paper forms to compose a caged cart, with what looks to me like a porcupine cut from a magazine inside! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhotos give a good and pretty comprehensive sense here, though my photos are not great; these feel brighter and stronger in hand.(A few less interesting pages not documented.) I've included a handful of two page spreads first, them documented pages pretty much in order. The album is constructed of boards joined by fabric edging, such that it can be flipped through one way, then turned over and flipped back through the other, revealing the opposite sides of the boards. In most cases here there are works on one side only, maybe just a dozen or so boards completed on both sides. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11 1\/4\" x 9 1\/2\" x 1 1\/2\". 46 pp completed. The bulk of the album has separated from the covers, as I've shown in photos at the end of documentation. This is due to a single tear, along the edge of one board, as shown--clearly product of the weight of the boards together, and is something one very often sees with these albums. Aside from that it is  good overall antique condition, with pretty much no losses to the work at all that I can see. So many of these albums have been taken apart, so it always a great joy to find one still whole, and I think a really nice spectrum of exercises well represented here. C. early 20th century\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"critical EYE Finds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47924852982014,"sku":null,"price":265.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0015\/5022\/1382\/files\/IMG_7222.png?v=1773452898","url":"https:\/\/www.criticaleyefinds.com\/products\/early-20th-century-froebel-kindergarten-accordion-fold-album-paper-weaving-folding-thread-drawing-more-copy","provider":"critical EYE Finds","version":"1.0","type":"link"}