Mennonite Letter Fold

A simple but smart way to use a piece of writing paper as its own envelope.

(Apologies for the not-so-great-quality photos: the only digital camera I have is the one on my phone, and stupidly it doesn't have a zoom function.)

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Get your piece of paper (you can use any size for this - the paper I used for these photos is A4) and put it so that it's portrait (rather than landscape).

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Feb 28, 2009. 2:24 PM

CameronSS says:

Just curious, what makes it "Mennonite"?

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May 24, 2009. 11:55 AMDannMcGrew says:

The frugal Mennonites and Amish use this method to save purchasing envelopes. I live in "Pennsylvania Dutch" country and have seen this in use.

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Mar 1, 2009. 1:51 AMhanfmuk (author) says:

I'm not really sure. The book I originally learned this fold from called it a Mennonite letter fold and said that it had been developed by the Amish, but I have no idea how accurate that information is. And the only other time I've seen this fold used, it was also called Mennonite so I figured I'd better stick with that.

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Mar 21, 2009. 9:05 AMe.vd.ploeg says:

HI. I am Elsje (from Holland) from the Envelope and LetterFolds Association. I do research for folded letters and envelopes. I have found this lettersheet in Denmark 1991. Mightbe your book is older ??? Can you tell me in what book you saw this lettersheet published ? Title and year , author and isbn.....maybe a copy ??? Thanks in forward for an answer. xxxe

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