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I'm looking for a good design for a hat to make for two friends' birthday. I already tried to do the flasher hat, but hadn't a clue what I was doing, so that didn't work out too well

I'm making a giant X-wing for one so I need to make something for the other, and she has a thing for hats, so voilá!

Jeremy Shafer's Crane Hat?
http://www.barf.cc/cranehat.pdf

Well, here are 2 more off the top of my head (bad pun). I like the jester hat myself.

http://www.barf.cc/jesthat.pdf
http://www.floppyfish.net/origami/diagr ... anshat.pdf

Haha they're brilliant! Thanks a milion lads!

I just folded the bush hat, and it didn't turn out too badly at all. I've still got to give the others a try though...

Any more? (yes, I am greedy )

I recall...I saw someone with a baseball cappy in a movie, which was made of paper. I was trying to look for that but wasnt lucky so far.
anyone know how to do a cappy?

Here's a video showing how to fold a Cap from a newspaper....folded by Joe Hamamoto, on this blog Have Paper, Will Travel. Its truly amazing!

Marukai Newspaper Cap

there's an origamibook about hats. it's called "Hut ab" and the author is "Joan Sallas" maybe you can get your hands onto a copy

This is great book about hats, I wanted to recommend it to you, but someone was quicker Joan Sallas is member of our origami society.

paperz wrote:Here's a video showing how to fold a Cap from a newspaper....folded by Joe Hamamoto, on this blog Have Paper, Will Travel. Its truly amazing!

Marukai Newspaper Cap

this is exactly the one I was looking for!! thanks!!!!
and the book recommendation is also good. great it is in german, since I am from Germany

e-mo

Once you get Joan Sallas's book, this will help you figure out the correct paper size you need.... to fold each one of them

http://www.origami-osn.nl/osn/en/oricalc-hat.html

Enjoy!

Excellent!!!

Joe the white wrote:http://www.floppyfish.net/origami/diagr ... anshat.pdf

This hat is lovely.

Thanks

Hi everyone,

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I am baffled by step 7 of the bush hat, and was hoping someone could explain it to me. How is it possible to refold the bottom of the triangle as shown so that it becomes the arrowhead shape necessary to accomodate the length of the large flap?

Every time I try to fold it, it forces itself back into the squash's triangle, with the large flap emerging from underneath it, but in this configuration, it is impossible to fold back the left half of the vertical flap.

Anyone have a tip??

you should have something like this
http://i.imgur.com/y4hZZ3t.jpg
then simply reverse the inner flap and fold along the red line like this
http://i.imgur.com/tH9jqHu.jpg
and finally flatten the model
http://i.imgur.com/rhrRjcS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/AYmmjvX.jpg

Yeah, that's what I got, too. The problem is in the next step, trying to fold that vertical flap back, the lower triangle gets in the way of the squashed triangle. In the diagram, there's a sort of arrowhead shape in the squashed area, that allows the next step to happen, but I can't figure out how to get that.