Mysterious and silent, they have fluttered down like gifts from Harry Potter's owl, though the giver has been unseen - I have only seen two of the beautifully intricate paper sculptures, inspired by books, even using slips of text-cuttings as part of their construction, that have been magically appearing round Edinburgh in bookish places: the one (above)in the Scottish Poetry Library and the one in the Central Library's foyer.
There has been a flutter on Twitter. (I'm told, since I don't.) They are fired up about it (if that's possibly a dangerous word to use in libraries)in the SPL and their latest blog announcing the last of the charming gifts, paper gloves of bees' fur and cap of wrens' wings, has prompted me to post the link http://scottishpoetrylibrary.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/gloves-of-bees-fur-cap-of-the-wrens-wings/
I've been meaning to search for the others. Some are only on view privately though. But thanks to Chrisdonia who has been tracking down and photographing each of the 10 gifted by Anon, you can now see them here:
http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/_Mysterious-paper-sculptures/blog/4991767/126249.html
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