On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Paper Dragon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The last flower variation is made with multiple units - 3 or 4 stacks of > 3-5 units. The are joined upside down by the pipe cleaner. The final flower > is made by doing outside reverse folds one layer at a time in a rotating > fashion. In some cases, I have seen the bottom layer in green - opened in > the traditional manner - serving as a leaf/calyx. I have heard this flower > called a Lotus or rose/rosebud - depending on the tightness of the outside > reverse folds. > > Here's a blogpost I had written on this, 9 years ago: http://havepaperwilltravel.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-to-make-20-unit-flower.html Not sure the crude, primitive video still works; but I think since that 2006 post, there are other videos or diagrams out there on how to make this model. The one thing I really liked about this model is I could teach a mass amount of people at festivals and they could jump in right away and not wait around to begin. As for the 3 unit version, I always used green twist ties. Pipe cleaners for the 20-unit lotus. michael http://havepaperwilltravel.blogspot.com/
