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Aveuglami project - folding sheet
Placecard
| Author | unknown |
| Category | item |
| Difficulty | ** |
| Format | square |
| Base | preliminary |
| Text | This placecard has the shape of a stylized sailing boat. It serves as the logo for members
of an association of American folders.
1. Fold a preliminary base. Hold it with the closed tip down. 2. Form a valley fold by bringing the upper tip of the front flap up and down over the closed tip. Pay attention to the junctions with the two left and right corners. A hinge fold connects these two corners. Mark the fold well. 3. Flip the fold from right to left. 4. Form a valley fold by bringing the upper tip of the front flap up and down over the closed tip. Pay attention to the junctions with the two left and right corners. A hinge fold connects these two corners. Mark the fold well. We now have a square shape arranged in a diamond shape. The lower half is composed of a front triangular flap of single thickness, which hides a thick triangular tip, which itself hides a rear triangular flap of single thickness. The top of the form is composed of two left and right triangular flaps of double thickness. They will constitute the sails. 5. Locate the middle of the fold connecting the left and right middle corners. One way to do this is to follow, starting from the upper point of the fold, the vertical separation between the two upper triangular flaps. We go down along this separation until we meet the upper edge of the lower triangular flap. 6. Form a valley fold by bringing the lower point of the front flap from bottom to top on the midpoint that you have just identified. Mark the fold well. It should be perfectly parallel to the middle crease. 7. Form a valley fold by bringing the thick point from bottom to top which now appears on the midpoint that we identified previously. Mark the fold well. We can use the triangular flap that we have just folded to find the right marks. 8. Slide the thick tip under the flap which carries the simple triangle that was folded in step 7. So the thick tip will be blocked behind this flap. 9. Form a valley fold by bringing the lower point of the rear flap from bottom to top on the midpoint that we identified previously. You can use the lower edge of the thick tip that you have just folded to find the right marks. Fold the flap in the other direction, to form a mountain fold and glue it to the back of the fold. Mark the fold well. We formed the hull of the boat, and prepared the two triangles which will form the base. We're going to focus on sails. 10. Take the upper peak of the upper right flap, bring it down to form a valley fold which will rest on the upper edge of the hull. Press the flap firmly along this edge to strongly mark the fold. We now have a triangular flap pointing downwards. We will now raise the tip of the triangular flap upwards, so as to form a sail a little lower than the left sail (the upper left triangular flap which we have not touched). 11. Form a valley fold by bringing the lower point that you have just folded upwards. In the end, this tip will be a little below the top of the tip of the upper left flap. Mark the fold well. One way to make this fold is to raise the lower point of the triangle that you have just folded downwards, forming an upward valley fold, without pressing, so as not to mark it. We trace the point along the left vertical edge of the upper left triangle to a point a little below the upper vertex of the left triangle. There is no reference point, it all depends on the difference in height that we want to give between the two sails. Once the sail's arrival point has been chosen, simply mark the horizontal fold at the bottom of the sail, taking care to sweep downwards so that it forms well. We now have a hull topped with a high sail on the left, and a slightly lower sail on the right. The bottom of the right sail forms a fold that we will slide under the upper edge of the hull which is hidden behind the fold. 12. Lift the edge slightly so that the pocket is formed which will receive the fold of the sail. 13. To complete the folding, we unfold horizontally the two triangular flaps of simple thickness which are glued along the hull so as to form a base. The placecard stands up on its own. All you have to do is play with the colors, decoration and inscriptions so that everyone finds or indicates their place. Bon appetit, or good meeting. |
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| Placecard - PDF file | ML-Item03Ang.pdf |