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Mennonite Letter Fold

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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4 comments
Feb 28, 2009. 2:24 PMCameronSS says:
Just curious, what makes it "Mennonite"?
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.
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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