Continuing from my previous post on handmade envelopes, here are more of these envelopes. I made a couple of sets of these envelopes with little origami decorations. The paper used, both for the envelopes and the decorations, is thick, handmade paper in antique gold and copper gold. Thick paper = simple origami! So I had to discard quite a few ideas I had. I am sure I will try more of these envelopes with slightly [Continued..]
The origami lotus is yet another traditional, modular model and one that I had tried out recently. The assembly for the lotus is different from what I had done till date. After folding the individual modules (there are a total of 8 modules for the flower and 4 for the leaves), we assemble the modules in sets of 3 (2 flower modules and 1 leaf module) and tie them together. Once everything is held tight [Continued..]
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..]