“Fig. 2 shows how thin strips are cut from the sides of the four main sections, which are cut again from the top to the bottom, and from the bottom to the top, alternately, so as to form one continuous strip of small leaves, that with gentle pulling will lengthen into a goodly strip of peel.”

Featured on PDR in the collection The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling (1910)

Images from an article about an unusual form of sculpture, found in a 1910 issue of American Homes and Gardens magazine.

Fig. 2 shows how thin strips are cut from the sides of the four main sections, which are cut again from the top to the bottom, and from the bottom to the top, alternately, so as to form one continuous strip of small leaves, that with gentle pulling will lengthen into a goodly strip of peel.

Date

1910

From

“The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling”, American Homes and Gardens (Dec 1910)


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