LINK to the latest article about the future of penmanship
Most people have heard that there is a *rule of threes* suggesting that things look better in threes. I call it the *suggestion of threes* because sometimes it is fine to have two things. I'm OK with Juliana's although I deeply regret the S and I'm not happy with the various sizes of the rectangles.
Jessica's would have been better with a larger J and a different J and fewer doo-dads - but I was pleased with the way it looked to have the third *stamp* falling off the edge.
That's a better J - and I like the scale of the two rectangles - I don't think this one needed a third bit.
Sadly, Janet who provided the inspiration for the whole theme for my January envelope received a ho-hum envelope. Although I like her J the best. I can't put my finger on exactly what's wrong with the over-all composition - possibly I had burned out - doing 8 envelopes in one sitting. The last name is too bold and the shape is clunky. JeanR's is better with the bold name - but smaller
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One of my favorite features of the NYTimes is a section called: Overlooked No More.
The woman who invented the machine to make the flat bottomed paper bag was featured and it makes me so happy to learn about her. I have spent a fair amount of time learning how to make a flat bottomed paper bag from any kind of paper. They are so handy if you need to gift wrap something and have paper, but no box and no gift bag.
FULL story at the NYTimes. They usually allow one free article per month.
If you have used up your free articles - there are a couple highlights below. The full article has more about her background (very little formal education) and the challenges faced by women who break out of traditional roles.
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In 1867, Knight was working as a bag bundler at the Columbia Paper Bag Company in Springfield, Mass., where she abhorred the cumbersome and time-consuming method of making every paper bag by hand. She sought a way to automate the process.
It didn’t take her long; she had a working model in about a year. But she was soon shocked to discover that a charlatan named Charles Annan, who worked at the machine shop in which her prototype had been built, tried to patent the device as his own. She hired a patent lawyer and took Annan to court.
Annan’s only reported defense was that a “woman could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities of the machine.” But Knight brought to court her blueprints for the original design, along with notebooks, models and witnesses who testified on her behalf. She won her case, becoming the first woman in the United States to win a patent interference lawsuit. On July 11, 1871, she earned U.S. patent No. 116,842 for her invention.
Throughout her life, Knight saw intractable problems as opportunities for innovation; she invented nearly 90 devices and obtained 27 U.S. patents.
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