Joan’s Jottings

Lillian Oppenheimer
Some time last autumn, I wrote a long article about Lillian to celebrate her birthday and Origami Days and promptly lost it! Will now try and replicate it. On that
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In London with Eric Kenneway
I was able to go to the London meetings as my in-laws lived there and carefully timed my visits to them. Lillian Oppenheimer came to the next meeting at Rosalies
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My jottings
I think I must explain more about my Jottings. These days there is a plethora of folding instructions of all sorts and although I am fascinated in how the craft/art
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My first convention
In the meantime I found ‘The Secret’s of Origami’ in the library and subsequently bought our own copy. I remember noting Lillian Oppenheimer’s address in the back of the book
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Starting origami
Being a girl who had left grammar school and lived on a council estate, I had no idea how much travelling I would do. In the 40s and 50s life
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