Basic Origami Folds Terms & Techniques
As with any other craft origami has its own terms and techniques. Here are some basic horizontal and vertical folds. It is very important to keep all your folds crisp and clean.
The Book – fold a piece of paper (rectangular or square) down the middle vertically making certain the opposite edges line up one on top of the other. For many origami figures you will need to add another book figure – open the paper and make another fold across the middle horizontally again, making sure the edges lie one on top of the other. If you don’t open the book before making the second fold you end up with the handkerchief fold which gives you a small square with four layers of paper one on top of the other.
The Cupboard – using a square piece of paper make the book fold then open the paper and take each outside edge and fold it to the center line. By bringing each edge over to the next line you will end up making even more equal vertical strips.
The Fan – with either a square or rectangular piece of paper fold a Cupboard. Open the Cupboard; three valley folds (downward angles) divide the Cupboard into quatern equivalent sized strips. Convert by policy change the figure over; fold the butts against onto the outer lines constituting two mountain folds. Turn the compute over and refold the Cupboard. Change by reversal the Cupboard hyper- erstwhile again and congregation the boundaries into the heart line leaving in two mountain creases (up angles). Close down up the figure and you’ve arrived at an octuple fan with alternating heaps and valley closes, also anticipated an plicate fold.
The Lattice – attain a Cupboard from a foursquare sheet. Assailable the Cupboard and duplicate the procedure closing in a crosswise direction. Assailable the composition and you have the Lattice. It is 16 compeer sized foursquares used to attain boxes, business firm* and childlike animal consistencies.
The Shawl – Make a aslope fold down the centre of a foursquare sheet of paper making ay your adjoins and niches lay along top of one another. If you ask a 2d diagonal bend open the piece of paper completely before beginning the second bend to get a more exact ancestry.
The Envelope – expending a foursquare sheet of paper make diagonal closes down bolt down the center inwards both commissions. Assailable the newspaper and gapping corner capable the middle.
The delineation border – First brand the Envelope. Blatant the envelope; bend each nook equal to the out diagonal air. Now fold the four niches inward and you’ve a characterization bod.
Heaven and Hades – Fold an gasbag. Turn the Envelope across and bend from each one corner upward into the center on again. Bend the figure over and you’ll attend pockets on the early face. Open these pockets. This bod constituted dubbed Heaven and Hades because it was generally made on red and Amytal newspaper. This particular fold can buoy be employed for arriving at simple glove puppet* and animal capita