12 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle 3D modelsA puzzle or puzzle is a board game whose objective is to form a figure correctly combining the parts of it, which are in different pieces or flat pieces.The first puzzle was created almost accidentally by John Spilsbury in 1760, an expert in map design. He did it by mounting one of the many maps he had created on hardwood board, cutting it around the borders of the countries.This creation was used in Great Britain as an educational pastime, initially to teach geography to children. The idea of ​​its exclusive use in teaching lasted until about 1820.Around 1900 artistic puzzles for adults were born. Those hand-cut wooden puzzles quickly became one of the favorite entertainments of high society.It was customary to dazzle visitors with these original and elegant pastimes, which due to their singular beauty and exclusivity, became part of the heritage and family tradition. Those hand-cut puzzles had a peculiar style called "push-fit", push-place, by the way they should be assembled: by following the cut, the contours of the image and the areas of color, the pieces, devoid of knobs, were not assembled together as in the commercial puzzles of today, but they were coupled to each other in the most subtle way. Thus, the assemblers had to be very careful because of a sudden movement or even a sneeze could ruin the patient work of a whole afternoon.Art puzzles for adults, unlike children's puzzles, did not include an image to guide the editor, who had to content himself with the evocative reference to the title before sitting down to solve the enigma behind which the cutter had hidden the painting.This was one of its fundamental attractions and attractions: to keep revealing little by little, constructing step by step the hidden work of art, a work of art to which, once the puzzle is solved, we will have paid intense attention that will make us know until its most recondite details.The puzzles of 1900, where pieces more than fit together were placed next to each other, were a real challenge and became an absorbing pastime.Today they are still the most appreciated by those for whom elegance, difficulty, and delicacy are the fundamental incentives that prolong the pleasure of reconstructing and discovering the hidden image.In the first decade of the twentieth century, a famous American toy manufacturer decided to dedicate all its production to wooden crafted puzzles and introduced some variations very well received by the public: figurative pieces and knobs.The knobs allowed the pieces to be assembled together making the puzzle not disassembled easily and offering the possibility of the pieces adopting new forms. The figurative pieces, silhouettes of animals, people or recognizable objects, generated great fascination and surprise among the fans; not only did they highlight the skill and imagination of the cutter, but they also added mystery and exclusivity to a game that had already risen to the status of a work of art.The experimentation and creation of new artistic forms throughout the 20th century did not cease, and the best craftsmen introduced novelties such as irregular edges, false corners, and different ways to challenge even more fans.However, although a few artisans have developed and kept alive the tradition of the hand-cut wooden adult puzzle, this is a hobby that retains all the flavor of other times.Download Jigsaw Puzzle 3D models on Flatpyramid.
