After my last post on origami houses, I found out that Roman Diaz had designed more such houses. One of them is found in the origami magazine 4 Esquinas. The ‘4 Esquinas‘ is a Latinamerican origami e-magazine, edited by Eric Madrigal. This magazine is published in Spanish and is free for download. It has a number of articles on origami and origami activities, crease patterns and diagrams. Since it is in Spanish, I needed to extensively [Continued..]
I found Roman Diaz’s house a unique design to fold and enjoyed folding it! The design is such that the height and width of the house can be changed, so I guess it is possible to make houses in an ascending order of size! The lock that holds the roof in place is quite interesting. Single sided paper might not give you a very good result, since part of the house would end up [Continued..]
A Kabuto is a Samurai helmet and is a part of the Japanese armour. The origami Samurai Hat, though, is a beginner origami that takes about 2 minutes to learn! They are fun to make and are great as party hats. The hats can be made from any kind of paper, starting with newspaper! But they look best when made from dual coloured paper, so try it out Btw, here is a little titbit about [Continued..]
After a long time I finally got my hands on another origami book, Minigami: Mini Origami Projects for Cards, Gifts and Decorations, authored by Gay Merrill Gross. The book has quite a lot of projects on making origami for cards, including butterflies, flowers, hearts, Christmas decor, birds and quite a bit more. I decided to make the Party Dress (p78) to see how different it is from the Evening Dress. The party dress turned out [Continued..]
I had made this cute evening dress initially when my sister-in-law had asked me to make a few of them for making some greeting cards. She is a very creative card-maker and felt that these origami dresses in her cards would add originality to them.. These are quite simple to make and if they are for cards, a square of 3-4 inches would be best. I will try to post some of my sister-in-law’s cards [Continued..]