The hexagon pinwheel box is a design by Tomoko Fuse, from her book ‘Joyful Origami Boxes‘. It is made from 6 squares of paper and joined without glue. The lid looks best when folded with duo coloured paper. But I think it looks great when folded from any dark-shaded wrapper paper too. And as in most cases, I did use wrapper paper to fold this box I love the variety offered by the paper and [Continued..]
I like making boxes from single sheets of paper. For one thing, they are quite economical and for another, you can just grab a piece of paper and start working on the box! This pentagonal box is designed by Rikki Donachie and is made from a single A4 sheet of paper. It is quite easy to fold. I folded the base such that the height was a little more than the lid. Otherwise, both base [Continued..]
I hadn’t come across any 5-sided modular boxes until recently. For the week on boxes, I had wanted to work on triangular, square and pentagonal boxes. And while searching for them, the first pentagonal box I came across was Dennis Walker’s Cherry Blossom Box. A very pretty box to fold, it ends up with a star shape in the top and 5 petals on top of the star. It folds best with stiffer paper. I [Continued..]
The Knob Box lid, designed by Jorge E Jaramillo, is one that I had tried some time back and hadn’t quite succeeded. I gave it another go and this time I did complete it The most difficult part of the lid was twisting it into the knob, after creasing the folds of the knob. I found the model quite challenging and so have been making a few of them, just to get the hang of [Continued..]
After the triangular boxes, I wanted to try out square boxes. But didn’t feel like working on the usual modular square boxes. So here is something different. The Pandora’s box, so named because it causes some misery attempting to open the box, is designed by Yami Yamauchi. Though it looks like there is an opening in the middle of the box (see the straight line going around the middle), this isn’t the opening. To figure [Continued..]