{"id":9955,"date":"2016-12-11T10:25:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=9955"},"modified":"2016-12-11T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:25:55","slug":"paper-box-with-handsewn-edges-c-1880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=9955","title":{"rendered":"Paper box with handsewn edges, c.1880"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veering away from my more typical posts showcasing\u00a0inventive repairs on ceramics and glass, today I am featuring the art of a mended paper box. Before\u00a0the invention of masking and Scotch tapes, damaged paper products were repaired using\u00a0strips of thin fabric, patching with paper, and mending with thread. I have long admired\u00a0the unintentional artistry created by patterns made by tiny stitches used to repair torn pages in a book.<\/p>\n<p>This small green paper box, most likely made in New England in the late 1800s, measures 4.75 inches by 4.25 inches and is 1.75 inches tall.\u00a0It seems the entire box fell apart and rather than tossing it into a\u00a0roaring\u00a0fire, someone quite cleverly stitched up every edge, giving it a unique folksy look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11721\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11721\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8973.jpg\" alt=\"img_8973\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8973.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8973-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8973-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11719\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11719\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11719\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8970.jpg\" alt=\"img_8970\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8970.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8970-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8970-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11717\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11717\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11717\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8968.jpg\" alt=\"img_8968\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8968.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8968-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8968-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11718\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11718\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11718\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8969.jpg\" alt=\"img_8969\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8969.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8969-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8969-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11720\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11720\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8972.jpg\" alt=\"img_8972\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8972.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8972-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8972-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11722\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11722\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11722\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8974.jpg\" alt=\"img_8974\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8974.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8974-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8974-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veering away from my more typical posts showcasing\u00a0inventive repairs on ceramics and glass, today I am featuring the art of a mended paper box. Before\u00a0the invention of masking and Scotch tapes, damaged paper products were repaired using\u00a0strips of thin fabric, patching with paper, and mending with thread. I have long admired\u00a0the unintentional artistry created by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[62,179,180],"class_list":["post-9955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box","tag-american","tag-paper","tag-sewn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9955"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11728,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions\/11728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}