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• #SIMPLE JAPANESE ORIGAMI LOTUS HOW TO#

I will try find some photos of these works to send you. Glued together they make beautiful textural looking ‘mats’ – we put these on the wall as art.Īlso, you can make boxes from the same slit back triangle tab technique – just glue the ‘sides’ of the boxes together first, then glue them at the angles to create the box shape. She showed me to cut an X on the flat back of the folded up menko (so you get 4 triangle tabs that open out while the front stays folded.) These tabs you insert into adjacent ‘menko’ and glue in place. I had forgotten the fold, though, and only knew it as “japanese mat fold” because you make a paper mat from it, so I am so glad I found your video to remind me! I don’t know if it is the ‘common’ use of this fold, but my friend taught me this years ago and I made boxes and wall art from it by slitting the back and gluing together. Yours are always so easy to watch – thank you! Hello! I’ve come across your instructions multiple times looking for a variety of folding paper needs. Would you like to learn other origami boxes, containers or envelopes?Ĭlick here for origami video instructions. Please share it with everyone in the comment section below.

#SIMPLE JAPANESE ORIGAMI LOTUS HOW TO#

This free origami video lesson presents complete instructions on how to make your own lotus blossoms from folded paper. If you think of other uses for this little origami envelope, Looking to add a specimen to your paper garden Make a 3D paper lotus flower using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For example: a 6″ x 6″ piece of square paper will yield a 2″ x 2″ square envelope. The finished Menko is a square whose sides measures a third of the square piece of paper started with. Step 9 just shows the model from the side at this point. Use it to hold an invitation… a perfect origami model for a wedding party or even for a party of two! At step 8 you are supposed to fold the model in half along the central line (valley fold).Use it to send a secret love note… don’t we all at times need sweet, lovely words to take us out of the doldrums?.It is also useful as a lovely origami packet to hold seeds to give those friends of ours who like to garden.This simple sewing kit will come in handy at some point.