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has anybody every tried out this kind of origami? I once saw a nice modular seahorse from teabag paper. can anybody point me to free diagrams or instructions to try out tea bag folding?


- Christian

http://origami.kvi.nl/models/mammals/00sub/teadeer.htm
Reindeer
And I saw some paper airplanes somewhere.
I have tried this folding because of trying out different shapes other than a square. It does present some interesting possibilities, although I was more impressed with the trapezoid.

I know that deer, but thanks anyways.

maybe the special about teabag folding is not the possibility of many different model, but to make colouful and nice models from paper you normaly would throw away. as I said before, I saw a very nice sea horse.
maybe I should ask the dutch folder I met the last year at the convention. she will maybe come to our next bigger local meeting.


Christian

I see. You know I have also tried folding tissues. Not tissue paper, Kleenex.

oh... if my toilet could tell stories


Christian

Hi Chris!

You asked for teabag-folding. There's a lot of that on the internet. Just do a google-search and be surprised! You can also join a Yahoo! group about tea-bag folding. Better still is to create your own models once you know how it works. And it's really too simple... just take for instance 8 the same teabags, cut them into a square, fold them into waterbomb-bases and paste them in a circle onto a postcard, to get the caleidoscopic effect.

I don't know the modular seahorse you are talking about, but maybe it's made of the Chinese traditional module you can also transfer into a swan, see http://opane.com/opane/swan.html

What's beautiful from teabags is Mette's ring. Diagrams are on Mette's site. http://mette.pederson.com/Ring1Diagram.htm

Happy folding,
Paula

I’ve also heard Chinese modular origami referred to as “block foldingâ€