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Aveuglami project - folding sheet
Hortensia
| Author | Takahama Toshie |
| Category | flower |
| Difficulty | ** |
| Format | square |
| Base | modular |
| Text | To make a beautiful bouquet, simply fold a few dozen elementary flowers, combine them into large balls and sprinkle everything with a few leaves. The program is simple, the result guaranteed.
Basic flower 1. Prepare a preliminary base. Hold it with the closed tip down. 2. Bring, using a valley fold from top to bottom, the upper point of the front single thickness flap on the closed point. Pinch only in the middle of the valley fold. Unfold. This fold is only used to mark the center of the front square flap. This flap is made up of two triangular flaps of double thickness. 3. Bring, using a valley fold from right to left, the right apex of the right double thickness flap to the center of the front square flap. Mark the fold. 4. Bring, using a valley fold from left to right, the left apex of the left double-thickness flap to the center of the front square flap. Mark the fold. 5. Flip the fold from right to left. 6. Bring, using a valley fold from right to left, the right top of the right double thickness flap to the center of the front square flap. Mark the fold. 7. Bring, using a valley fold from left to right, the left apex of the left double-thickness flap to the center of the front square flap. Mark the fold. We obtain a six-sided shape, with a closed tip at the bottom. Two trapezoidal flaps, each carrying a triangular flap, are located on either side of the vertical axis of the folding. The same configuration is found at the rear. 8. Bring the left trapezoidal flap vertical by rotating it from left to right around the vertical axis. It will serve as a guide for the next step. 9. Bring, by a valley fold from right to left starting from the closed point, the lower edge of the right trapezoidal flap on the vertical axis of the fold. Mark the fold well. Just follow the bottom of the flap raised vertically. 10. Return the left flap to horizontal, bring the right trapezoidal flap to vertical by rotating it from right to left around the vertical axis. 11. Bring, by a valley fold from left to right starting from the closed point, the lower edge of the left trapezoidal flap on the vertical axis of the fold. Mark the fold well. We have just refined the lower tip of the front flap. We start again at the back. 12. Flip the fold from right to left. 13. Bring the left trapezoidal flap vertical by rotating it from left to right around the vertical axis. 14. Bring, by a valley fold from right to left starting from the closed point, the lower edge of the right trapezoidal flap on the vertical axis of the fold. Mark the fold well. 15. Return the left flap to horizontal, bring the right trapezoidal flap to vertical by rotating it from right to left around the vertical axis. 16. Bring, by a valley fold from left to right starting from the closed point, the lower edge of the left trapezoidal flap on the vertical axis of the fold. Mark the fold well. We again have a 6-sided shape, having a thick pointed point towards the bottom. Two small triangular flaps start from this point and meet on the vertical axis. Continuing to climb towards the open point, we encounter two points which also meet on the vertical axis. 17. Mark, with a horizontal valley fold from top to bottom passing through the two points which meet on the vertical axis below the upper vertex of the shape. Unfold. 18. Open the flower by bringing, through a valley fold from top to bottom passing through the fold made in the previous step, the front flap on the bottom of the fold. Shape the other three flaps by flattening them. We obtain four petals which form a sort of square. Two possibilities exist: - create an elementary flower in two dimensions, the four petals of which are in the same plane as the bottom of the fold. This is the training to create a composition on a painting. - create an elementary three-dimensional flower, the four petals of which are in a plane perpendicular to the bottom of the fold. This is the training to make a three-dimensional hydrangea flower. Hydrangea flower A hydrangea flower is made up of several elementary flowers that form a sort of ball. There are two possibilities for making a paper flower: - glue on a sheet (of cardboard, possibly) a certain number of two-dimensional elementary flowers, so as to fill a more or less circular space. The flowers can overlap a little, to give an impression of disorder. - pass a rod of florist's wire through each elementary three-dimensional flower and bring the wires together so as to form a kind of ball that is not necessarily whole. We then attach all the wires to form the stem of the flower. Hydrangea leaf We use a square sheet of paper about one and a half times larger than the sheet for a flower. 1. Fold the sheet in half, with a valley fold passing through one of the two diagonals. Hold it so that the hinge fold is on the right, vertically. 2. Bring, by a valley fold from left to right starting from a point located approximately at the lower third of the lower left edge of the front triangular flap, the left vertex of the front triangular flap on the hinge fold. Mark the fold. 3. Flip the fold from right to left. 4. Using the rear flap of the fold as a reference, bring, by a valley fold from right to left starting from a point located approximately at the lower third of the lower right edge of the front triangular flap, the right vertex of the front triangular flap on the hinge fold. Mark the fold. We have a quadrilateral whose left side is formed by a hinge fold. The lower point of the quadrilateral is sharper than the upper point. 5. Bring, by a valley fold from right to left starting from the lower vertex, the lower right edge of the quadrilateral along the hinge fold. Mark the fold. 6. Flip the fold from right to left. 7. Bring, by a valley fold from left to right starting from the lower vertex, the lower left edge of the quadrilateral along the hinge fold. Mark the fold. We have just refined the lower tip. This will be the petiole of the leaf. 8. Reverse the hinge fold by rotating the two flaps attached to it so that they have smooth faces on the outside of the fold. 9. Make a fold along the hinge fold using a valley fold located a very small distance from the hinge edge. There is no marker. This fold will be used to represent the central vein of the leaf. 10. Open the fold so that the front side forms a fold. The leaf is finished, it is asymmetrical. It can also be embellished with a few false ribs by making a few parallel valley and mountain folds before opening the fold. Bouquet of hydrangea flowers Now simply arrange several flowers and leaves to form a bouquet. Two solutions: - for a tableau, it is suggested to form three or four flowers which will be separated by a sort of path formed by leaves. - for a three-dimensional bouquet, each leaf can be mounted on wire slipped into the existing fold along the central vein. |
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