These lovely origami dress ornaments from Erin at My Very Educated Mother look like the perfect project to bring together your favorite ladies before the holidays! I like the the simple ribbon embellishment on Erin’s dresses, but it would be really easy to make your own personalized versions with patterned paper and additional decorations. Ready […]
Neat off-the-wall idea from Instructables user blightdesign, who’s been experimenting with preserving folded paper by rubberizing it with Plasti-Dip. More pics in B. Light Design’s Flickr set.
Besides making interesting intellectual problems, zipper unfoldings have many cool potential crafty applications as purses, bags, pillows, etc. With sufficiently rigid or reinforced fabric and the right shape, one might even make a zip-up chair, stool, table, or other furniture this way.
French artist Etienne Cliquet has developed a beautiful form of micro origami with a mesmerizing twist. After precisely cutting and folding a small square of paper (using tweezers, mind you), he then carefully places the resulting sculpture on the surface of water. As capillary action pulls moisture through the paper, the tiny sculpture appears to […]
One of many really impressive models from MIT staffer Brian Chan. [via CRAFT]
Since you liked yesterday’s origami Iron Man so much, you might also enjoy the wonders over at The Geekigami Flickr Pool. There’s a group of artists over there folding things like battle robots, Cthulu, and the Starship Enterprise. Can you believe this E.T. was folded from a single square of paper?
Brian Chan‘s origami pieces depict insects, plant life and figures, but this intricate Iron Man has me gobsmacked. If you visit the link, you can print a folding diagram and try it out for yourself. (Via Toxel.com)
