Models
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Designed because of a challenge to design a model from the A-format.
A4-waterbomb: 1. form
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Part of a series of A4 waterbomb variants. See also ugens fold 2007-40.
A4-waterbomb: 10. form
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Part of a series of A4 waterbomb variants. More curious than good. See also ugens fold 2007-40.
A4-waterbomb: 2. form
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Part of a series of A4 waterbomb variants. See also ugens fold 2007-40.
A4-waterbomb: 3. form
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Part of a series of A4 waterbomb variants. See also ugens fold 2007-40.
A4-waterbomb: 4. form
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Part of a series of A4 waterbomb variants. I the top there is only one layer, otherwist it is just like the traditional waterbomb. See also ugens fold 2007-40.
A4-waterbomb: 5. form
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Part of a series of A4 waterbomb variants. In its long shape it may be the best bid at an 'A4 waterbomb'. See also ugens fold 2007-40.
A4-waterbomb: 6. form
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Part of a series of A4 waterbomb variants. See also ugens fold 2007-40.
A4-waterbomb: 7. form
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Part of a series of A4 waterbomb variants. Useful for e.g. chips. See also ugens fold 2007-40.
A4-waterbomb: 8. form
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Part of a series of A4 waterbomb variants. See also ugens fold 2007-40.
A4-waterbomb: 9. form
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Part of a series of A4 waterbomb variants. See also ugens fold 2007-40.
A4-waterbomb: Square start
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The square starting point for a seies of A4 waterbombs. See also ugens fold 2007-40.
Aalto in paper
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Like the style of Alvar Aalto.
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Should be known in most Danish schools.
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Should be known in most Danish schools.
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Variant of airplane ('gliding toy') in Harbin1977 where the designer is unknown.
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Designed for PechaCucha, an artist and designer seminar series. I ended up showing the folding for 400 participants, in 20 steps of 20 seconds. I believe between 20 and 40 succeeded in folding it.
Angel or Daedalus
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I always saw it as an angel, but it is designed to be Daedalos.
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I like this baroque turtle. 'Antediluvian' means 'before the Flood'. The name is chosen because it clearly is not of our time. See also fold of the week 2009-38.
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The unfinished look matches a baby bird.
Baby elephant
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Baby monkey
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Baby penguin
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Wellknown from the school.
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Wellknown from school. Modified to provide two sharp pops at one time.
Bat
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Bird
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Very simple.
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Very lifelike design, with an optimised use of the bird base. Some locks.
Bird
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An untraditional opening base.
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Entertaining. Paint two eyes for optimal effect. Hold in the wings to make it talk and move.
Blackdevil Angler
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A good representative of the cleverness of Montroll and Lang. As many of their models it is extremely difficult.
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Compare with the other botas. This one is made from a square, but gets thick sides. See also week fold 2007-46.
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Compare with the ohter boats. This one is made from a square and looks more like a motor boat. See also ugens fold 2007-46.
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Compare with the other boats. This one fits well with the slip that is left over when making a square from A4. See also ugens fold 2007-46.
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Designed for the newspaper of the Roskilde Festival. The idea was that the festival guests could reuse the newspaper after having read it.
Box
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Much like boat 4, just without the mess of reverse folding.
Boxes
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Same as other picture of them. The light emphasizes the great geometrical patterns.
Boxes
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An early example of twist folds, 1980, long before Kawasaki's rose.
Bull
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Butterfly
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Butterfly from 2x1 Model.Paper. See also fold of the week 2007-23. So simple that others quite possibly also invented this.
Butterfly
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Butterfly
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Butterfly from 2x1 Model.Paper. See also fold of the week 2007-23. So simple that others quite possibly also invented this.
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Butterfly from 2x1 Model.Paper. See also fold of the week 2007-23. So simple that others quite possibly also invented this.
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The geometrically decorative ball becomes a cloud of butterflies if you slaps it into the air. fold of the week 2008-42.
Canary
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The canopy is the logo of the Roskilde Festival as well as the name for the tent over the main stage.
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Draw eyes and whiskers for a final touch. In stiff paper there is some after-correction.
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A simple caterpillar with an untraditional folding.
Chick
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Invented for Easter 2008 because I wanted a chicken together with the shy little rabbit.
Designed for the newspaper of the Roskilde Festival. The idea was that the festival guests could reuse the newspaper after having read it.
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Use rustique, heavy paper with a slightly different back. Glue is not needed, but can help make the shape more robust. See also fold of the week 2007-48.
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From four strips, more woven than folded. Attributed to Fröbel (Germany) who in the 1800-hundreds widely applied paperfolding in pedagogical context. In Denmark it is closely related to Christmas and so widespread that there is an abundance of readymade 'start strips' in the shops.
Christmas star 1
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Christmas star 2
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Cicada
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Experiment with round Model.Paper. The basic idea must have been thought before. It turns out that Leyla Torres two months before had a paper whisper which is like this one, except that she used a square. With the creases only going halfways, it may be difficult to fold beautifully.
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Exampel of an origami joke. After an idea by Robinson 2004 where he shows the motive from 3 pieces of paper and challenges the reader to make it from one piece..
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Learned it from Alt for damerne sometime in the 70'ies. Make it from colourful Model.Paper.
Crab
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Crab with 8 legs
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Craw
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Cube
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The box is geometrically a cube. The folding sequence requires some measurement.
Cut and folded dog
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Has both front and back. Requires a ruler in the making.
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Clearly a happy little dog, but the great curve for ears and snout is a bit extraterrestrical. Thus it become 'dog from Sirius', to dog star.
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Nice example of using duo Model.Paper. Typical face in Kenneway's design.
Dragon
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Designed and folded in the early 80'ies, now also photo-diagrammed. See fold of the week 2007-18. Modified pegasus, just more complex.
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A simple, practical model.
Eagle, ready to fly
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This box was invented incidentally, see also the description by the diagram.
Elephant
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Elephant
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The sign @ is named 'snabel-A' in Danish, literally 'trunk A'. What else could an A4 elephant be named? To obtain the tusks, a cut is needed.
Elephant
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Eye in paper
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Cut along the large curve, and you have an oyster that opens and closes.
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Designed December 2007 in an attempt to make an elephant (the attempt did not succeed :-) ... See also fold of the week 2007-51
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Related to Ian Harrison's Shen-lock bowls, but is an action model.
Fish
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Simple to make. Really just a tulip turned 90 degree.
Fish
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Flapping dove
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Flower 3
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Tulip and lily are numbered as flower 1 and 2.
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The final assembly requires overview. Shares much of the fold with [a blomst05]
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The final collapse requires some overview, and after the cut the petals must be arranged. Much like blomst 4.
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Shares much of the fold with flower bowl 1. Requires a pre-crease of a twist fold which is difficult to illustrate.
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Shares much of the fold with flower bowl 2, but can be stacked.
Fly?
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Designed as answer to a question. Note that "football" is the real thing here, not the American we-mostly-use-our-hands-ball.
Fox head
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Frog
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Fuzz
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the facial expression may be changed by small variations in the folding
Garibaldi
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another exampel of Eric Kenneway's exceptional charicatures
God head?
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Goldfish
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Goose
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Gorilla
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Grasshopper
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An exceptional model that is reasonably straightforward to fold relative to its many details. But start with a large Model.Paper.
Hand playing piano
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Heart
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Heart of later digital time age
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Helmet
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Horned owl
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Needs drawing to be really good.
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Only 8 years when she made this.
Impossible rectangle
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Simple to fold, but requires hyper correction to get the flower lie nicely.
Jack-in-the-box
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Japanese gentleman
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Japanese lady
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You don't seem the jumping frog often in books, even if it is a little pearl close to the basking bird. See also fold of the week 2007-11.
Knot
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See also twist 1 which forms the basis of the knot.
Lady of Fashion
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Can express moods - a couple of small twists, and the lady is not seductive, but mad.
Lady of Fashion
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The Lazy Susan has more compartments so more things can be served at a time. Some say it is also pictured on a Chinese coin.
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Looks like a passion flower, but not enough petals.
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Many creases, and the 3D instructions may be difficult. Shares basic design with smooth tulip, but has extra creases due to a completely different folding technique. See also fold of the week 2008-04.
Lobster
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Elagant shape, nice in transparent paper with a tea light inside.
Man carrying bag
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Mandarin duck, male and female
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Nice example of combining two models.
Mask
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Represents a family of at least several hundred folds. About 140 of them are included in the project fold et fjæs. The basick idea is from Simon Andersen, partly through correspondance with Hans Dybkjær who made the face builder. See also ugens fold 2009-01.
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A traditional and very simple box that can be varied in the proportions. See also fold of the week 2009-45. Make two, then there is for a lid, too.
Mother and child
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Provides insight into the properties of paper, and very easy to 'fold'. See also ugens fold 2009-25.
Mouse
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larger models are extremely difficult to collapse nicely.
Nun
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grew out of a technique to get the paper curve just using straight folds. See also ugens fold 2008-30.
Ostrich with rider
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Owl
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Peacock
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Penguin
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Penguin
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Penguin
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Penguin
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One handed fortune teller. There is a compartment for every finger of one hand.
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Has many names. In Denmark called 'Sharon fruit' after the dominant sort.
Play with paper
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Play with paper
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Praying moor
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pyramids
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A variant of Thoki Yenn's napkin holder.
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According to Kasahara this shy little rabbit is a figure that Thoki Yenn identified himself with.
Rabbit
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Reserved cat
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Facial expression is difficult.
Rhinocerous beetle
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A traditional fold or rather winding in tissue Model.Paper. It is easy to get a useful result, and with some exercise and care very beautiful roses may be obtained this way. Use thin wire to keep flower and leaves together.
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A model with an original folding which i.a. has inspired Shafer to make the twirl
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A traditional flower, not folded but mounted in tissue Model.Paper. Takes quite a while, but very beautiful roses may be obtained. Use wire to keep petals and leaves together.
Rose in silk paper
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Looks like those seen in siple paper bouquets and is hardly folded, rather winded.
Rose with leaves
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Sailboat
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Maybe the simplest boat. So simple that it must be traditional, but I haven't seen it elsewhere.
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Simple model with a sculptural effect. Turn bottom up, and it becomes the well-known fortune teller.
Samurai hat
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Sculptural cat
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Body and facial expression are difficult.
Sculptural rabbit
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Sculpture
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Small variant of the turtle
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Created from a traditional pig.
Shrimp
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Shrimp
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Good example of Erik Rønholt's skill in designing simple origami everybody can make. See also fold of the week 2009-42.
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Invented during investigation of crossing pleats a la Thoki Yenn's Crossed Box Pleat (CBP). See also fold of the week 2008-04
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A clean, slightly abstract bird singing and gesticulating with its wings.
Sitting dog
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The 3D instructions may be difficult, but otherwise easy. Shares basic design with smooth tulip, but has no unused creases due to a completely different folding technique. See also fold of the week 2008-04.
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Satisfying folding sequence, action in second-last step (windturbine), and a surprise when the gem pops out with a snap in the last step.
Spiral Snail Shell
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Squirrel
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Squirrel
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Standing dove
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A bit difficult to get to stand.
Star of David
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From four strips. Simple variation the the Christmas star.
Stork
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Swallow
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Cuts the tail with no real gain.
Swan baby
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Swan-peacock...
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A simple fold with a nice result. One of Simon's hewn folds.
Tea pot
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Michelle was so kind as to send pictures and text.
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Invented by my mother as an improvement over the 'shirt'. It is closely related to this type of container, but very useful and easy. The first steps with the flattening are useful when emptying a yoghurt container.
Triangle Box
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Tropical bird
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Tropical bird
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Tropical fish
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Tulip
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Turning 1
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Example of box squash fold. Good as an exercise, and may be used as a pattern at other models.
Turning 2
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See turning 1 which it is a 2 multiplum of.
Turning 3
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See turning 1 which it is a 4 multiplum of.
Turtle
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Turtle
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Turtle
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Tyrannosaurus Rex
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Valentine
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A bit difficult to get the arrow stay in place.
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Blow up model. Care to get smooth. Designed 2007-02-10 during an attempt to design a snowman from waterbombs...
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Widespread napkin fold.
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Fill with water ... and THROW!
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The folding sequence of the wings is just so pleasing.
Waterbomb-shape
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Might be exended to a kind of wrist band?
Waterbomb-shape
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What for? Square with four waterbomb bases, each with a locked sink.
Waterbomb-shape
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Waterbomb bases locked into a ring.
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Woven Christmas hearts are traditional Danish if not really origami. This one is 'cross stitch technique' makint it relatively simple to make new motives.
Whale
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One of the simplest blowup models ever. Traditioally called a goldfish because they turn it upside down in which form it is a traditional Chinese model, maybe modified by Philip Shen.
Whirl: closed
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Entertaining and great technique.
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Elegant, and useful for learning sinks.
