What have you folded lately?

[Victoria Serova]

Попалаcь. Могу ли я вырваться? Я на карантине.
Gotcha. Can I break out? I'm in quarantine.
Designer Victoria Serova.

[unknownfolder]

A few of the models I've folded during the pandemic:

Eagle by Nguyen Hung Cuong
From diagrams in License to Fold
Paper: Single tissue paper treated with MC


Lion by Satoshi Kamiya
From diagrams in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2
Paper: MC double tissue


Redpath Pteranodon by Robert Lang
From diagrams in License to Fold
Paper: Zanders Elephant Hide (30 cm x 30 cm)


Organist by Robert Lang
From diagrams in Origami Design Secrets, Second Edition
Paper: Zanders Elephant Hide (25 cm by 100 cm)


For the last two, I like the result of using the Elephant Hide, especially with Pteranodon. These models were my first folds using it, and I enjoyed working with it. It was definitely quite a struggle near the end of both models with all the layers. Luckily, Elephant Hide responds very well to wet folding.

[OrigamiasaEnthusiast]

maybe I can fold a meager silverfish...a meager dobsonfly... A MEAGER STINKING RYUJIN 3,5!!!! If you give me 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 hours (my point is wow, impressive models)

[Victoria Serova]

За прекрасных дам. Придумала и сложила Виктория Серова. For the beautiful ladies. Victoria Serova designer and folded.

[Victoria Serova]

Козленок.
Придумала и сложила Виктория Серова.

Goatling.
Victoria Serova designer and folded.

[easysid]

Got back into folding last year. The whole lockdown and quarantine thing has helped folding this year.
No luck with making good quality double sided paper though. Tissue foil I don't like. And the tissue paper I have is the bleeding type.

Anyway, some of the models that I folded during the lockdown.

Icarus, Hojyo Takashi [50 cm square of Banana Paper]


Blooming Rose, Naomiki Sato [A4 printer paper]


Swordsman, Hoang Trung Thanh [48 cm Banana Paper]

[OrigamiasaEnthusiast]

Impressed.

[Ancella]

The Violin by Gen Hagiwara has been on my mind since a long time and with this lockdown time at home, I decided to give it a try. I used double tissue paper, prepared with MC to fold this, paper is 1:4 size.

Violin (Design by Gen Hagiwara) by Ancella Simoes, on Flickr

[Gerardo]

The Violin by Gen Hagiwara has been on my mind since a long time and with this lockdown time at home, I decided to give it a try. I used double tissue paper, prepared with MC to fold this, paper is 1:4 size.

Wow, you came back to the forum after eight years! Welcome back Ancella !

Beautiful paper and the fold is going well . I hope you don't feel offended if I point out to you that you missed a pleat fold in the bottom left and bottom right. Do you see them? Those pleats would help you better shape the bottom of the violin's wooden body.

Hope that helps .

[unknownfolder]

That is a wonderful violin, Ancella. Well done!

My latest fold:

Wizard by Satoshi Kamiya
From diagrams in Works of Satoshi Kamiya
Folded from a square of mulberry paper treated with MC





This was my first time using mulberry paper. It was a fascinating experience. It was very shapeable and held a crease much better than the Spritz tissue paper that I used for the eagle. The final details on the model are hard to get just right, so I’ll probably be fiddling with it here and there for a while. I was surprised that despite the thinness of the paper that the staff still ended up being hard to fold!

Also, my order of Works of Satoshi Kamiya 3 just arrived today! I’m excited to dive into it.

[OrigamiasaEnthusiast]

The shaping on this model is excellent! I recognized it right away...(partly because I failed this model earlier ) Wow, WOSK3 is supposed to be good! Have fun!

[unknownfolder]

Thank you! I’ve definitely tried and failed on it before as well. The paper type is definitely essential for the shaping at the end.

I actually forgot to mention that I also got Origami Insects and Their Kin as well! It’s raining here, and I couldn’t help myself so I folded Lang’s cicada with MC treated mulberry paper (from the same roll as the paper used for the wizard).

Cicada by Robert Lang


The paper suits it so well. I like the slight translucence of the wings that the paper effects. It felt strange not struggling with the legs. I’m really falling in love with this stuff.

[Ancella]

The Violin by Gen Hagiwara has been on my mind since a long time and with this lockdown time at home, I decided to give it a try. I used double tissue paper, prepared with MC to fold this, paper is 1:4 size.

Wow, you came back to the forum after eight years! Welcome back Ancella !

Beautiful paper and the fold is going well . I hope you don't feel offended if I point out to you that you missed a pleat fold in the bottom left and bottom right. Do you see them? Those pleats would help you better shape the bottom of the violin's wooden body.

Hope that helps .

Thank you, Gerardo! Ah yes, you've got a good eye. I did goof up on that bit of pleat fold and didn't even realize. Thank you for pointing it out and I am not at all offended.

[marsch]

Anatolian Orchid, designed by Kunsulu Jilkishiyeva.
Diagrams are in OrigamiUSA's the Paper #132.

Anatolian Orchid by Martin Schneider, auf Flickr

[unknownfolder]

Loggerhead Sea Turtle by Satoshi Kamiya
From diagrams in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 3
Folded from a 30 cm square of Zanders Elephant Hide paper




I did a bit of wet folding to shape the shell and plastron. I wanted to get the two halves of the plastron to stay flush with each other, but I couldn’t quite get there. I especially enjoyed folding the pleats for the shell.