Envelope making method

Envelopes are made as follows:

Material preparation: glue, a4 paper.

1, choose a piece of paper, and then corner to corner folding, can see the crease can be.

2, then unfold the paper, fold the corners of both sides of the paper to the center position, forming the sides of the envelope, and then fold the bottom corners up.

3, the lower paper folded upward, you can fold more, so that the bottom of the envelope to form two layers, thus improving the quality of the envelope, will be the corner in the downward fold a little.

4, use glue to bond all the folded sections together so that you can form a three-sided closed envelope pocket.

5, so an envelope is completed.

Envelope:

Envelope, generally refers to the people used to mail letters, conserve the contents of the letter of a kind of exchange of documents and information bag packaging, envelopes are generally made into rectangular paper bags.

Envelopes appeared very early in China, (the warring states policy - qi policy "has recorded that the king of factory qi messenger asked zhao wei queen, the book has not been sent, after wei queen asked the messenger day:" the age is also no harm to the ear order people also have no ear order." "The book was not sent", that is, the letter was not opened, that is to say, at that time there was an envelope. However, the shape of the envelope at that time, due to the lack of access to the relevant records, is not known.

The Han Lefu folk song "Drinking Horses from the Great Wall Grottoes" says: "The guest came from afar and left me a double carp; I called my son to cook the carp, and there was a shakusu book in it." The "double carp" here is the envelope from the Han Dynasty. As for the cooking carp, is the poet with the technique of the picaresque, the image of the letter of the opening of the depiction, not cooking the real carp. This kind of envelope, made of two fish-shaped wooden boards, sandwiched between the letters. When you untie the rope and open the letter, you can see the letter written on plain silk. This carp-shaped envelope has been inherited for a long time, until the Tang Dynasty and imitation.