With the approach of the holiday season this festive origami twist box is an easy-to-make container for a small gift. Fold the box using red and green papers for Christmas or orange and black papers for Halloween. As a wedding favor the box could be folded with white or pastel colors; for a birthday party any bright and festive colors will do.
The box’s designer, David Martínez (Venezuela), developed this twist box while experimenting on how to divide a piece of paper in equal parts using methods described by Kazuo Haga, and Kunihiko Kasahara.
David folds his box from an A4 proportioned rectangle, but in the following video we’ll start with a 7-inch square, divide it in five equal sections, and then cut out the rectangle.
David Martínez discovered origami when he was ten years old through a book his sister borrowed from the library. He enjoys folding different kinds of models but currently has been experimenting with geometric origami made from papers that are not square.
Many of David’s origami creations can be seen on his flickr page. When he is not folding paper, David likes to spend time with his family and friends. He will soon be completing his college degree in computer engineering.
Origami Twist Boxes
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Hermoso! Y muy claras las instrucciones. Muchas gracias, Leyla. Siempre es un gusto tu sitio.
What a fantastic model! Thank you as always, Leyla for a clear and concise folding tutorial. Thank you as well to David Martinez for sharing this wonderful origami creation. Soon there will be little boxes all over the house (smile).
Best wishes,
Rosemary
Great Rosemary, I filled my studio with boxes just before going to PCOC, so I placed some jelly beans inside and brought them as gifts for origami friends!
Very cute boxes! The ornament at the top make them perfect!
Nice box, David! Thank you for the tutorial, Leyla!
I had fun folding with you at PCOC. Thank you for the jelly bellies!
ps. of course, I loved the twist box, too
Great Pam! Thank you for writing :)
hola Leyla que padre esta la cajita de regalo gracias por compartirlo.
me gusta mucho el origami.
Wow! so sweet. nice “twist” on a box. Like your ornament, really adds to the festiveness..
Thank you for commenting here. The curly ornament was a fun idea. I just wanted to add something more festive!
Many, many, many folds, but it was worth it! I almost gave up because of all the folds! :)
Good for you Amy, for not giving up, congratulations!
Nice video! Very understandable!
Leyla,
I am your true fans for origami, I like each and every one of your designs and teachings.
I teach Sunday School at my church, and once a month we have crafts session for the grade oners to grade sixers, once in a while I teach origami, and the kids love to learn, although sometimes they cannot catch up some steps, they are excited to make every second steps, it is so encouraging that some of them are very talented of paper folding.
Thank you so much for your tutorials.