Domesticali: Origami wreath tutorial. A little paper ornament - simple to make, perfect for popping inside a Christmas Card.
Want to have a go? I promised a tutorial, so here's what to do. You'll need to begin with a rectangle of paper 4cm wide by 8 cm long. Choose paper with a bit of body - really lightweight stuff won't hold the folds as well or appear 3 dimensional when finished. Books and Bookmarks. People have always wanted to learn how to make books and bookmarks origami style.
Any piece of paper slipped between two pages would do as a bookmark, but origami bookmarks can be stylish and distinguish you apart from the rest. These origami bookmarks are cleverly folded pieces of paper which can be slipped onto the corner of a page. Tessellation tutorial « Student Flotsam and Origami Jetsam. So I originally was waiting until my ordered copy of Origami Tessellations: Awe Inspiring Geometric Designs came to write a review about Eric’s new book, but while it hasn’t come a copy has come from another source.
To be fair this review is hardly unbiased as I know Eric and he is in part responsible for sending me down this path of obsession. He is always trying to bring people into the tessellating fold and his book is part of this. The book starts off explaining what a tessellation is, a basic history of origami tessellations, and how to do a basic grid. He shows the fundamentals of tessellation design, such as how to create pleate intersections both with a square based grid and a equilateral triangle based grid.