what are the best origami flowers you know?

MJ25 · Post by **MJ25** » June 8th, 2009, 2:56 am

I already know lang's rose and kawasaki's roses, I'm looking for some other rather impressive flowers to make , which ones would you recommend?

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » June 8th, 2009, 3:06 am

Hi-welcome to the forum! I am no flower expert, but I have a few more that I can recommend. Michael Lafosse has published 3 flower designs that I know of-his Cattleya Orchid in Advanced Origami and his Munich Orchid and Modular Flower in Origami Art. Especially his Cattleya Orchid is very elegant and beautiful. The traditional Lily from a frog base is also nice, even though it is so common.

legionzilla · Post by **legionzilla** » June 8th, 2009, 4:09 am

Hi, Welcome to the forum!

Rose by Brian Chian
[img]http://chosetec.darkclan.net/origami/rose/rose.jpg[/img]
Others:
Common Star Lily by Kenny Baclawski
That one's awesome!
Star Flower by Seth Friedman
Aechmea Fasciata by Robert J. Lang.

penselen · Post by **penselen** » June 9th, 2009, 1:40 pm

This one is kind of obscure, but Martin Wall's rose from Harbin's Origami 4 has a stem and three leaves color changed also:

legionzilla · Post by **legionzilla** » June 10th, 2009, 4:01 am

Wow! Penselen, those flowers look beautiful! Is Harbin's Origami 4 still in print?

BluePaper · Post by **BluePaper** » June 10th, 2009, 4:44 pm

The Muira-ken beauty rose by Robert Lang

Definately one of my favorites. And of course Lafosse has excellent flowers as well. And who could forget the classic kawasaki rose?

legionzilla · Post by **legionzilla** » June 11th, 2009, 4:23 am

And who could forget the classic kawasaki rose?

Oh, I forgot

.

Piotzintli · Post by **Piotzintli** » June 12th, 2009, 6:25 am

I like a lot this one named 'Blossoming flower' of the Origami Austria site, wich I learned to fold for a special day.

http://www.origamiaustria.at/diagrams.php?lang=2

Post by **TheRealChris** » June 12th, 2009, 3:03 pm

And who could forget the classic kawasaki rose?

still my favorite

[img]http://freenet-homepage.de/origamichris/bilder/039.jpg[/img]

DZIGGITAI · Post by **DZIGGITAI** » July 23rd, 2009, 2:54 am

impressive flowers? hey, that's totally all I do (except they may be too impressive--as in take several days to fold)

learn brian chan's rose. it's not that hard if you can do the kawasaki and lang roses easily, and it makes people go WHOA

Brimstone · Post by **Brimstone** » July 23rd, 2009, 3:05 am

Lang's rose for sure looks more realistic than other origami flowers that even though are nice, are not that much realistic. Here's one folded by a friend of mine:

ahudson · Post by **ahudson** » July 23rd, 2009, 6:08 am

I've got an orchid that I've diagrammed, and it takes a lot of sculptural ability to pull off:

euroboy · Post by **euroboy** » February 18th, 2010, 9:47 am

I like Phu Tran's Rose the best !

http://origami.artists.free.fr/PhuTran/Roses/roses.htm

aces21 · Post by **aces21** » February 18th, 2010, 12:09 pm

legionzilla wrote:Is Harbin's Origami 4 still in print?

I'm afraid you're out of luck there. Its a pretty rare book by all accounts, so you'll have to do a fair amount of googling if you want to find a copy.

Luckily I got mine in a charity shop over 20 years ago for something like 10 pence

FrumiousBandersnatch · February 19th, 2010, 12:19 am

@Brian

What did I say about shameless self-promotion?