Its wintertime. Everybody’s out and having fun. They want to play in the snow and with snow, to enjoy the cold. So do the penguins. Specifically the cute toddling penguins designed by Shoko Aoyagi in 2004. They are sculptural, and they are easy to fold even for beginners. Find diagrams at the end of the…
Category: Diagrams
More Angels – and a new variation
Previously we saw Ripon Cathedral use the origami angel for a community event (An Angel becomes 10,000). On the morning of 24th of December – the very day we celebrate Xmas in Denmark – Alison Wright from Dunblane Cathedral in Scotland wrote to me that they use the angel in their community to have a…
An Angel becomes 10,000
It is not every day your origami design is folded 10,000 times by others, but that happened to my angel this summer. The Ripon Cathedral runs the campaign A Wing and a Prayer with an installation of 10,000 angels praying under the COVID-19 pandemic. 100 volunteers and 300 children aged 3-90 years helped realise the…
A story telling
I have read a Danish book from 1935, the small crafts system, which inspired me to make a new, very simple story telling about how to fold a blintz. The story is at the end, after a bit of cultural history. Small crafts from 1934 Last year the Danish newspaper Politiken published an entertainment series…
Cushion folds – blintzing fabric
The first post in the new year 2020 (to me that sounds like the far future). Today we will make a highly decorative application of origami: the cushion fold. They are more often used with pin-cushions, but look great on a couch as well. Origami-wise it is mostly known as a blintz, i.e. folding all…
Snowflakes
So 2019 didn’t give us much snow here in Copenhagen. About 45 flakes at the end of November, and none of it reached the earth. Fortunately we can make our own snowflakes. The easiest approach is paper cutting, but how is that origami? Does it matter? Their beauty is reason enough, and then they are…