The Origami Forum

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.

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.

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

I would be very interested in a diagram of that.

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

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.

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

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

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

al

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

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

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 .

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?

FlareglooM wrote: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...

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