Here are two squirrels fighting over something they believe to be a many sided acorn in the afternoon sun. I used 6″ squares to fold these squirrels, and it produced miniature squirrels the height of a pinky!
Folded by Sophie Usherwood
Designed by Michael Lafosse.
We have here two arrangements of primroses. The piece on the left is a stack of two daisies (that appear to create eight pink “leaves”) with a primrose on the top, and the piece on the right is a group of different hues of primroses with two leaves.
Here we have three lilies of different hues of purple. These are folded hexagons to create all six petals, and in essence is quite similar to the daisies in the first arrangement of primroses.
The primrose arrangements are from “Origami Bonsai” by Benjamin Coleman, and the lilies are designed by David Shall. And They are all folded by Sophie Usherwood.
These adorable hydrangea boxes are small enough to fit in a small child’s hand. The pattern on the top to me resembles more of a ribbon than a hydrangea, so I have given many of these as thank you gifts to many people. The entire lid is one piece of paper; the ribbon is not a different piece of paper, but is the same piece of paper as the white parts – I’m not joking! The bottom is also just one piece of paper.
As you can see in the two different pictures, the boxes on the left have one more layer of ribbon than the boxes on the right. The “ribbon” is actually a tessellation, and in theory the number of layers can go on forever. The boxes on the right were the boxes I folded at the beginning when I was first getting acquainted with the folds, and the boxes on the left are my most recent ones where I managed to fold the intricate third layer.
Folded by Sophie Usherwood
Designed by Dáša Ševerová and Shuzo Fujimoto.
I folded these three octagon boxes for my three english cousins. The most fascinating thing about these boxes is that in the box unit there is a naturally occurring star within another star that perfectly matches the lid. The lid needed four pieces of paper, and so did the box unit.
Folded by Sophie Usherwood
Designed by Tomoko Fuse.
Here are twelve Kawasaki roses in all the different shades of red! The rose leaf pictured is a rose leaf also designed by him. I curled the petals of each rose to give them a  more lacy effect with a method called wet-folding. After I had folded the completed rose, I lightly sprayed them one at a time with water from a spray bottle to soften the paper, and carefully curled the petals to taste. After they dried in the sun, the paper naturally curled in a much more delicate way than dry paper can achieve. When soft curves are needed wet-folding can make all the difference.
Kawasaki roses are created by twisting the paper around itself to create multiple layers of petals. They are some of my favorite flowers to fold because the design is ingenious and the product stunning. Bouquets of these roses brighten up the house, and select beauties make perfect gifts.
Here are three more roses I folded at a music camp which are four times as large.
Folded by Sophie Usherwood
Designed by Toshikazu Kawasaki.
I folded this special tessellation because I loved how by a series of open back hexagon and triangle twists, an intricate weaving pattern developed on its own on the other side. All four images are of the same origami tessellation: the top two are the front and back of the finished product backlit, and the bottom two are the front and back without light streaming through. As you can see in the lower left image there is a star in the middle, surrounded by six more stars nearer to the edge. These were originally hexagons created from open back hexagon twists, which were the “circles” of the celtic circle pattern. I pinched the corners of each hexagon to raise 3D stars in the paper that made it look like a night sky.
Folded by Sophie Usherwood
Designed by Robin Scholz.
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