![In this picture there are 3 origami-folded Moravian or Herrnhut stars - one large purple, and two smaller white ones. The largest is about 8” across, and the smaller about 5”.
They are 3-dimensional with 16 points.
They sit on a wooden floor in front of a glass door to the outside. Leafless trees can be seen in the background.
Nearly 200 years ago in Saxony, Germany, a math teacher in a Moravian school created a star for his students to demonstrate geometric principles.
That star went on to be known as the Moravian star, and today is hung in homes across Europe, during Advent, Christmas and Epiphany.
These softly glowing stars in windows or hung from eaves, porches, and balconies, can represent different things to each of us. In the mid-winter celebration of light, the star can be a comforting reminder of brighter days to come.
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A nomadic lifestyle of traveling ‘light’ means limited resources to spruce-up for Christmas [spruce up . . . get it?! Sorry - couldn’t resist.]
As such, the Christmas season has become a bit of a decorative non-event, but last year in Dresden we kept seeing hundreds of these multi-pointed stars hanging from balconies, trees, doorways, bell-towers, and I got to thinking - I wonder if there’s an instruction book? And so these were born.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2fvuyiwxi7cu2eytxybnshxn/bafkreih5rytl2uqlqlrdwmj6xwp2ievmcwz26rg27lszgutapuiofv5yle)
In this picture there are 3 origami-folded Moravian or Herrnhut stars - one large purple, and two smaller white ones. The largest is about 8” across, and the smaller about 5”. They are 3-dimensional with 16 points. They sit on a wooden floor in front of a glass door to the outside. Leafless trees can be seen in the background. Nearly 200 years ago in Saxony, Germany, a math teacher in a Moravian school created a star for his students to demonstrate geometric principles. That star went on to be known as the Moravian star, and today is hung in homes across Europe, during Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. These softly glowing stars in windows or hung from eaves, porches, and balconies, can represent different things to each of us. In the mid-winter celebration of light, the star can be a comforting reminder of brighter days to come. ******** A nomadic lifestyle of traveling ‘light’ means limited resources to spruce-up for Christmas [spruce up . . . get it?! Sorry - couldn’t resist.] As such, the Christmas season has become a bit of a decorative non-event, but last year in Dresden we kept seeing hundreds of these multi-pointed stars hanging from balconies, trees, doorways, bell-towers, and I got to thinking - I wonder if there’s an instruction book? And so these were born.
This picture is a vignette of another Moravian star I folded - in a golden yellow.
Some #stars for #ArtAdventCalendar day 9.
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