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Celebrations & Holiday origami models
This Kusudama can be considered modular origami, and it is based on a beautiful flower model, folded from a pentagon and originally created by Carmen Sprung (Germany). She calls it “carambola” perhaps because of its resemblance to a cross section of a carambola –also known as star fruit. On her website, Happy Folding, Sara Adams … Read more
Today, October 28th, I celebrated World Origami Days* at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont. For about five hours my husband, John, and I distributed origami models to children and adults visiting the bookstore from as far away as Moscow! Many smiles and conversations about paper folding evolved as we filled happy hands with butterflies, kissing … Read more
Even those people who might never think themselves as good at origami have at some point or another experienced some kind of paper folding. Origami serves many every-day purposes, and we can say that gift-wrapping is basically a type of paper folding.Here is a photo of a gift (actually two) I wrapped today to take … Read more
My friend Gay Merrill Gross pointed out to me this other variation of the origami modular star shown in my previous post. It was created by Robert Paul Miller (USA). To do this star variation: Follow the steps of the diagrams for the star of Rachel Katz. Add a final set of folds that produce … Read more
A few months ago I found in the Museum of Modern Art in New York this perfect block of color squares about 3 inches to the side. These days they are coming in handy to fold modular origami stars, which are very easy to make. They are great to decorate the Christmas tree. Here is … Read more