Origami with Quilling strips, inspired by Bamboo

 Just playing with quilling strips

Origami with Quilling strips

Previously I had used quilling strips to make the traditional puffed stars.  When I visited the recent A Hundred Hands annual event, I saw some extremely delicate bamboo jewellery, and it inspired me to try more Origami with these thin, perfectly cut strips of paper.

I learned this new design from the master bamboo weavers at the event. This one is made with four strips of material. The quilling strips are about 10mm wide, but the bamboo piece was done with strips barely 2 mm wide!

And the Quilling paper version

The Bamboo version

And here is another familiar design - the Moravian Star, also made with 4 strips.

There are lots of Origami designs  which can be done with paper strips, and there are whole sites dedicated to it as well, such as the Knotology site!











And here are some more variations that I and my son came up with, using quilling strips, and based on the Bamboo jewellery design.

This one looks just like the bamboo jewellery design, but it 'pops' up!

The image at the top is much more like what 'quilling' is really supposed to be!

And finally, I am now a member of A Hundred Hands, the Handmade Collective. The list of their artist members is here.