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Finnish Star

The “Finnish Star” Tutorial demonstrating a paper star made by weaving paper strips and that was originally found on this page, cannot be shown at this time. The author of this star and tutorial learned the technique from her Finnish teacher as a school art project in the 70’s. The teacher herself also learned the weaving technique from her parents in her childhood. Other sources found in the internet also verify that this is a traditional star craft.

We have been asked to remove our free tutorial of the “Finnish Star” for our site visitors from this page. There is a conflict at the moment with this designer who has created a snowflake in the 1980’s and called it  “Carolina Snowflake”. For proof she referred to her site: www.brsbasket.com/snowflake.html. She claims the snowflake has been protected by copyright, a pattern booklet: VA 219 131 and the design: VAu 536 810. She also offers the snowflake for sale.

Although we are convinced that the “Carolina Snowflake” is coincidentally similar in design, shape and style to the “Finnish Star”, it is still difficult to prove its real origin.

The differences:

1. The “Carolina Snowflake” was created later than the “Finnish Star”. According to the designer of the “Carolina Snowflake” it was created in 1984. The author of the “Finnish Star” tutorial made the “Finnish Stars” already in her childhood in the 1970’s.

2. The area of weaving in the center of the snowflake has more distance and holes between the woven strips whereas the same area of the “Finnish Star” is closed with no holes.

3. The copyrighted snowflake consists of 5 middle strips being woven with dual spokes whereas the star only uses 3 woven strips and used single spokes.

It is also destinctively clear to see, that the protected design of the snowflake is a similar weaving technique but is slightly different in detail. We did not receive a copy of the copyright entry so we cannot compare or examine exactly what has been copyrighted. The protected snowflake does not have an identical design to the “Finnish Star”. But for the moment, we are removing the tutorial from this page.

We would appreciate it if you could send us an e-mail using the address found on our contact page. We are looking for your ideas, your knowledge about copyright questions or reports about crafting the “Finnish Star” before the year 1984. We would like to continue to post this ever so popular free tutorial again here. Please help us to clear up this process. We thank you for your assistance.

Until this has been cleared, we would like to suggest another lovely paper star craft and a snowflake craft on this website that you can make instead. We hope you will enjoy creating these!

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