Straw stars :)

islandmassive · Post by **islandmassive** » October 6th, 2006, 10:16 pm

I was just looking around as usual on Google and found these diagrams on how to fold a star from a straw smilar to a chinese lucky star there so cool!

You can find the diagrams here
[img]http://www.geocities.com/lisayuan/rf-star.jpg[/img]

esato · Post by **esato** » October 7th, 2006, 9:44 am

Did you manage to 'fold' the stars?

I could not understand the instructions!

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » October 7th, 2006, 12:22 pm

For me, the site is un-available and the picture doesn't show up

islandmassive · Post by **islandmassive** » October 7th, 2006, 2:48 pm

i folded about twelve so far ,and im not shore what the problem is with the link when cupcake clicked on it, it works fine for me

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » October 7th, 2006, 4:30 pm

Apparently, the geocities site was down. It's working now!

Post by **origami_8** » October 7th, 2006, 5:36 pm

IÂ´ve found a staw-star instruction like the one mentioned above about two years ago somewhere on the internet but had the problem, that all available staws I could get where too short to succeed. Maybe I should try it again with this instruction now...

serina · Post by **serina** » October 22nd, 2006, 7:45 am

I used to make a lot of these when I was at school. You can use normal length drinking straws if you join 2 together - just squash the end of one into the other, and make sure the overlapping portion isn't more than about 1cm or it will make the middle of your star bulge due to the thickness.

After making a dozen or so your fingertips will hate you! But if you manage to find pretty-coloured straws, the end result is quite nice.

Fc1032 · Post by **Fc1032** » November 23rd, 2007, 9:12 am

i've made some of these!
There really nice, the centre looks like a rose, it has a "swirl" in the middle but the whole thing is a star! really cool too. I can teach you if u wanted:)

qtrollip · Post by **qtrollip** » November 24th, 2007, 6:29 am

Heinz Stroebl showed (and I don't know wheteher he was the first one), that by taking a rectangle and making a knot (by folds), actually makes a near-perfect pentagon. I think these stars are based on that theory.

theduck1990 · Post by **theduck1990** » November 24th, 2007, 10:46 am

Its a real good thing....
i will try it soon

The Duck

origamitran · Post by **origamitran** » December 2nd, 2007, 10:17 pm

yea these stars look great! my bro is trying to fill up a jar full of them and i know how to make them you can google it to find the instructions