I posted a preview last week of the second set of three ornament colors to add to the earlier metallics. The second set of colors is now available in my Etsy shop!
Here’s a look at the three new ornaments. These are the same shapes as the original three.
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I recently launched an Etsy shop with three different designs of ornaments in three different metallic colors. I’ve got a second set of three colors in progress, coming soon! All three colors are jewel tones: blue, red, and purple. All of these colors are hand-painted on white Elephant Hide paper. I used a glossier paint than usual, which gives them a bit of shine.
Here’s a preview:
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I shared a few weeks ago that I launched an Etsy shop with some ornaments. One of the things I put a good bit of time and effort into was choosing and designing the packaging. I included my new logo on both the ornament tag and on the outside of the box. The box is just large enough to comfortably hold the ornament wrapped in tissue paper, so it’s cushioned enough that it won’t crush easily but doesn’t take up too much extra space.
Here’s some photos of the packaging:
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This piece is one I designed for my show at Furman University in 2014. This is the widest piece I’ve folded: I used one sheet of Elephant Hide cut and re-glued to make a total circumference of 126 cm (diameter of 40 cm, or 16 inches). Here’s the crease pattern, showing the painted areas on the paper:
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I’ve folded a few models recently that combine origami with knitting, and this piece is the latest in that series. The vertical curve of the origami piece is constructed using the pleats I explored several months ago. The curved sides of the knit piece are created using short rows, which mimic the pleats in the origami piece. Both pieces are based on triangular tubes, so the sides that face each other are both flat planes.
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I recently posted the crease pattern for another piece from my Intersections series. Here’s another from the same series.
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I’m excited to announce that I’ve opened an Etsy shop for my origami! I’m happy that I have the opportunity to share my folded models more widely, and I hope they will find homes with people who will enjoy them.
As a start, I have three different ornament designs available in different metallic colors (pictures below). Since my time is fairly limited, quantities are limited (currently 12-15 of each) and I make no guarantees about when more will be available.
Each ornament is folded from a hand-painted rectangle of Elephant Hide paper, and the tag is printed onto Stardream paper to give it a bit of sparkle. The Elephant Hide is a fairly sturdy paper, and the curves create an eggshell-like effect that also strengthens the model. One of the advantages of painting the paper is that I can be sure I’m using lightfast colors that won’t fade over time. I started folding similar ornaments almost 9 years ago, and they’ve held up well over the years even in relatively humid environments (just don’t drop a drop a book on one, or anything like that).
I’m hoping to add more colors in the coming months. If you have any specific requests, let me know, and I’ll see what I can do!
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Over the past several months, I’ve been enjoying folding ornaments. I’ve designed ornaments most years and folded a small handful for specific purposes. This year, for the first time, I’ve been folding enough ornaments that I can make them available to other people! More details to come this weekend.
Here’s a preview of one of the designs:
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This design from 2013 is one of my early pieces from the diagonal shift series. The crease pattern is below:
I folded a variation in 2014 with the same crease pattern. The only difference between these two pieces is the painted pattern.
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I recently posted a test model of a cone-based diagonal shift where the cone pointed inward toward the shift. This model is the reverse of that, where the cone instead points outward toward the shift.
The math of this variation is very similar to the inturned cone. For both variations, if the cone angle and the plane angle are the same, the convergence point is exactly the same distance from the top edge of the ellipse. But, when the paper comes back to being a cylinder, the effective distance of the horizontal shift is very different. When the cone is inturned, the top edge of the ellipse is shifted toward the center of the base cylinder, so the shift looks small. Here, since the cone is out-turned, the top edge of the ellipse instead sticks out quite a ways past the edge of the narrow base cylinder, so the amount of total shift horizontally looks much larger.
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