Wooden Perpetual Calendar
Calendars are a part of our lives and mark the ebbs and tides of time as well as help us manage and plan our days weeks and months ahead. A calendar is the physical manifestation of an abstract idea that time is like a river and flows in one general direction, giving us a better perspective and understanding of past present and future.
The way the days and months form an year changes annually and makes older calendars used for past years obsolete. People usually print new calendars just before the New Year commences and they become obsolete when the old year ends. The years however follow a pattern and are known to take fourteen different formats. A perpetual calendar takes into account all these formats and gives you a calendar that you can use perpetually; in other words, forever.
Perpetual calendars can come in many forms. Some can be found online, downloaded and installed on to your desktop, others can be printed out and hung up on a wall and some others are handcrafted and made out of different materials especially wood and can be both hung up on your wall or placed on a surface..
The wooden perpetual calendar comes in various styles and can be simple or elaborate depending on the craftsman. The wooden perpetual calendar usually comes with tiles for each day of the month, each month of the year and all the popular holidays of the year so that they can be regrouped annually, taking into account all the changes. Some crafts people can offer a wooden perpetual calendar with multiple themes such as Victorian, Farm house, European and School house and also give you the option of designing your own custom wooden perpetual calendar which can be a great idea if you are planning to gift it to someone.
A wooden perpetual calendar which is custom made or made in small quantities and is usually hand painted and laser engraved. These calendars are usually flat and are hung up on the wall like traditional paper calendars. The wooden perpetual calendar can also contain an affixed clock and a pen holder, and can be placed on your table top. The wooden perpetual calendar is sometimes compact enough to be placed on your desktop, though most of them do not come with the mini clock face and pen holder offered by some retailers.
There is a perpetual calendar invented by a William James Sidis which allows people to look up weekdays simply and easily without complex calculations and is circular in shape. It was patented by the United States Patent Office on June 25, 1929.
The perpetual calendar is a rather convenient way of marking days but is still seen as curio and collectible item by many.
