Cherry blossoms are beautiful flowers that grow in abundance in Fall. You think of cherry blossoms and most of us would think of Japan These flowers, called Sakura in Japanese, have a variety of uses including culinary ones. The flowers are usually white in colour with pale pink near the stems. And I wanted to give these lovely flowers a try. I found a very simple traditional design for folding these flowers. It involves a [Continued..]
After the tulip, here is a sunflower I think this is a traditional design. But unfortunately, I am not able to find it online or in any of the origami books! I had got mine from a Japanese origami magazine, which I had picked up from a second hand book shop. As for this bright sunflower, I found it somewhat difficult to fold. It took me 2-3 tries before I could get a presentable sunflower! [Continued..]
The traditional origami tulip is actually quite easy to do and though I hadn’t done a post on this, I had included this as part of my Summer Origami Composition, a few months back. So I was on the lookout for yet another origami tulip to make and this one caught my eye. The design is by Takashi Tanaka. I found the folding very unique, because it starts off with a square base, with the [Continued..]
This wildflower is designed by Marcela Brina. This flower was a bit more challenging than my previous ones. But still, quite a successful attempt I think. Notice the paper? I absolutely love it! This is pearlized momigami paper that I had bought recently. I bought it mainly to make roses. I have seen some of the pictures of paper roses made with this paper and they look quite gorgeous! The paper folds quite well and [Continued..]
After the buttonhole flower yesterday, I was tempted to try out this little modular flower, complete with leaves! This flower was taught to me by an origami friend, some time back. Never got around to doing it. But since I seem to have a new-found enthusiasm for flowers, I decided to give it a go. The flower is made up of five modules. I had forgotten the length of the pieces (I knew for sure [Continued..]