Origami cross or crucifix made from a strip?

[Wuggums47]

I was playing around with paper crumpling and discovered a bead pattern. I figure I could use this to make a rosary from a very large strip of paper, And was wondering if anyone knows of a way to turn a strip in to a cross, or better yet a crucifix. Does anyone know of an existing model I could modify for this purpose? Preferably something that isn't very complex so it could be folded from a strip several inches wide at most.

[Baltorigamist]

I actually designed something a few years ago that might be what you're looking for. It takes a VERY long strip (1:70 or so), but it's a fairly detailed crucifix.
Maybe I can make diagrams for it in the near future.

[tschobigami]

There is a relatively easy cross by quiet marverick on flickr...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/quiet-mar ... 072313195/

[Wuggums47]

I would be very interested in a diagram of that.

[Baltorigamist]

Of mine? I'll see what I can do.

[Wuggums47]

Thanks! I greatly appreciate it. As a catholic I'm always on the look out for origami crucifixes and things like that. I imagine to get a 1 X 70 strip I would need a roll of paper.

[al-black]

Quentin Trollip has designed a Crucfix. The diagrams can be found int BOS #67, selected works.

I had difficulties with steps 61 and 62, but that had a lot to do with paper and bruising technique. You should fly through it.

al

[Swapnil Das]

Yes, we know. But they're searching for crosses/crucifix's made from a strip. Quentin's one is from a square.

[al-black]

opps, yeah, meant to put that in. But isn't it illegal to fold from rectangles <giggle>?

al

[GrossMichael]

And this is the point where the flamewar about purism starts.

[Baltorigamist]

Liek how could you say that? Of course it's illegal to fold from rectangles! And you can't have any cuts or use glue!

^sarcasm for the slower among you. :B

[FlareglooM]

If it is illegal to fold from rectangles, then it is also illegal to fold from squares, because a square is a special case of a rectangle because the sides are equal .

[JWorigamist]

You can make a cross out of a palm branch. Its very easy and so many people fold them that I don't think its a copyrighted design its really simple. So am I or am I not allowed to post a photo diagram of the cross I am talking about?

[al-black]

If it is illegal to fold from rectangles, then it is also illegal to fold from squares, because a square is a special case of a rectangle because the sides are equal .

I'll probably stop laughing a couple of hours from now...

[Wuggums47]

My thread seems to be getting a tad derailed… I'm aware that folding from a rectangle is not pure origami, and there was a time that I skipped over models folded from rectangles, or regular polygons. But if I want to make a rosary for my priest that has over 50 beads, it would be impractical to fold from squares(Don't think even tissue is thin enough), unless I designed a modular one with many squares, which once again would no longer be pure