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Aug
3
I’ve seen versions of this Victorian toy many times, but I never knew it has a special name: thaumatrope. The disk has an image of a bird on one side and a cage on the other. Spin the disk and the images seem to merge — you see a bird in a cage! In our video-saturated age, there’s something comforting about a tactile, low-tech toy such as this.
Want to make one? Urban Threads is making the embroidery patterns available free through August 16. See the post.
