Flower Stand
Which paper to choose to fold visually impaired people?
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Frequently Asked Questions Which paper to choose to fold visually impaired people? Back to the welcome page First sheet Previous sheet Next sheet |
Which paper to choose to fold visually impaired people?
| A few ideas resulting from nearly 10 years of experience: - any type of paper is suitable, as long as it is not too thin. However, some of my students practiced a little crumpled origami. They found the exercise very difficult, but we obtained interesting results, for example by folding mushrooms or flowers 'ˆ la Floderer' - I use a lot of already used Braille paper, because it allows me to make very beautiful folds, particularly when it comes to boxes or vases. In addition, embossed Braille paper allows us to speak of two-color paper (if it is only embossed on one side). We can in fact perfectly imagine that the side where the points are prominent is of one color, and the other side (smooth to the touch) of another. This allows in particular to practice exercises such as 'determining how to place the sheet at the start if we want the points to be found on the outside of the vase that we are going to fold. - I use two-tone kraft paper with great success. Blind people can easily differentiate the colored side from the kraft side, the latter being rougher. - Some visually impaired people are used to using electronic color detectors, which solves the problem of the reasonable use of colored papers. In summary, I would say that you can try any kind of paper. We can choose the one that seems best suited to the model taught, in exactly the same way that a person who has no vision problem chooses his paper. |