Boxes, Tetra-Pak Origami, etc.

Box with Lid, by David Brill

This beautiful design of a box, complete with a lid is from a square. The end result is a box whose size is one fifth that of the original sheet. The projecting piece of the box on the inside of the bottom fits into the lid, and keeps things neat and tight.


Video by Adams Sara on Facebook.

I got this lovely wrapping paper as a New Year gift, and it works fairly well for such models.










Lampshade 


I have been planning to do something like this for a long time, after seeing lots of such models.


It is a combination of accordion pleats along the length, and overlapped pleats along the width.

This one is from an A4 sheet of white copy paper, folded on Saturday while waiting for my weekly class to start.





Tetra-Pak Icosahedron

This one is made from 30 strips of 1x4, and 20 strips of 1x6, cut out of 5 tetra-pak juice packets. This one is too small to put a light in it, so I plan to make a bigger one.

The inspiration was this the award winning design.






 Fancy Square Box, by James Clark


Boxes are always a favourite object in Origami. This one is a nice design with a slightly difficult collapse after all the pre-creasing.


Diagrams available.







 
Caterpillar, by Maarten van Gelder


Starting with a 1x8 rectangle, this one involves lots of painstaking and repetitive folding, with most folds being repeated 16, 32 or even 64 times!


Diagram available.

Back after the break, with the extended toolbox

Extended Toolbox

My first new design, the toolbox, got a fairly good reception on the Origami forum at Flickr. I have created a crease pattern for it.

I tried to extend the toolbox to get different compartments, and here is the result. Unfortunately the corners become open, which makes it not very practical. Still, I am hoping that someone can take it up and fix it.

Pleated Bangles from Junk Mail

This is a traditional design using pleating again. The pleating is done diagonally on a square, resulting in the nice pattern. Once the pleating is done, the two central pleats are used, and the ends are looped around to lock the model.

Bowl

I had made a vase with this piece of banana paper before, and I decided to try and make a bowl using the same paper.

The design is to fold pleats in two directions, with the vertical ones being of equal size, and the horizontal ones overlapping. You then have to pull the outer pleat to the required angle, and press to make a new fold. This was folded completely freehand, which explains the odd shapes here and there.

Icosahedron

An Icosahedron is a regular polygon with 20 triangular faces. This model is made with 30 triangular edge units.

Video instructions here.






 
Ice Cream Cup, Folded

I liked the nice pattern on the cup, so I decided to make something out of it. I do similar things out of paper cups as well, which I need to post sometime.






Flea Market and Weekly Classes

I and my son packed up all the "upcycled" Origami that we had and set up a table at the Second to None Flea Market at Jaaga a couple of weeks back. We were there all afternoon, but sales were disappointing. But we learnt something about what people are likely to buy, and how much they would like to pay for Origami. People seemed to like the DNA model (double helix) which can be hung on a string to catch the wind, and boxes.

The weekly class is going to start from next week, at 6pm every Saturday, for 90 minutes. I hope to finish the 6 hours in 4 weeks.