Papyro-plastics, or The art of modelling in paper : being an instructive amusement for young persons of both sexes.
Papyro-plastics, or The art of modelling in paper is a London instructional manual of 1825 by Bernhard Heinrich Blasche, translated by D. Boileau and published by Boosey and Son for young persons of both sexes as a parlour amusement. Its numbered plates show paper-model cutting patterns with dotted fold lines, letter-keyed flat nets, and finished shapes such as a bird house on a post, a tall niche-like box, and a curved arched structure, so a designer can borrow the net-and-fold logic of folded paper construction.
