Kusudama - Butterfly

This kusudama is named “Butterfly Kusudama” in YAMAGUCHI Makoto’s book Kusudama Ball Origami.It has 60 units which consists of 12 flowers of 5 petals each.Its a glue fix model.

My first butterfly kusudama...
This is made of thicker paper using Post-it Notes of fluorescent orange and green colour.I haven't yet perfected the joins .





My next Butterfly kusudama :-
12 flowers made of 12 different colours.
Paper Origami sheets of 4.5 Inches Square one side blank.The squares are cut into 4 pieces each for making smaller flowers.





Link for Diagram:

Butterfly Kusudama diagram pic from book
Butterfly kusudama animated This isn't working anymore

Video :-
Here is one video on it by DreamRosebud on youtube

My Project :- Senbazuru

A month or 2 back I thought of folding the Origami cranes,rather a thousand origami cranes.The project got completed just recently on March 31.Here are a few photos of the thousand miniature cranes I folded.




100 Pink Cranes



After completion of thousand miniature cranes in 10 different colours .



Thousand cranes in a formation.







The next task is to put the 1000 cranes into use.Soon I will post the photos for that too here...

Arabesque

Arabesque means a complex, ornate design of intertwined floral, foliate, and geometric figures or An intricate or elaborate pattern or design.

It is a modular structure or Floral ball (Kusudama) made of 30 units.
The model can be put together without glue. It is stable without glue too (but I was not luck to get a stable model so I glued to fix them up ).
The model has a few variations. You may try them.
Here is the one I created.


Link for diagram:-
Arabesque
Link for video:-
Youtube
Origaminut

Origami by Wikihow

Wikihow is the part of wikipedia where you get the "How to Manuals".This has manuals on many topics .

Wikihow also contains manuals on Origami.At present wikihow contains 50 articles on Origami.The Orgami structures manual available now are not very complex .The manuals are uploaded by users.Keep searching in wikihow.May be you can find the manual for the origami structure you are searching for.:)

You can have a look on the Wikihow Origami Manuals here.

Yamaha Motors and Origami

Yamaha motors a name known for its bikes.It's a Japanese Company.Broadly classifing ,there product profile includes motorcycles , marine products ,power products etc....

By now you must be wondering why am I writing about a motor industry in a crafts blog that to a paper folding art blog.Paper is so delicate and the company has nothing to do with such things.So too I thought when I first time heard of the origami page in Yamaha Motors website from someone.

It didn't fit in ,"Motor company and origami".But it's true Yamaha Motors website has a section for origami.Here you can find many models of animals,insects and the best part yamaha bikes.

The site provides printable models,technique to fold the model and yes videos to guide you.I haven't yet tried as I don't have a printer but soon I will also make a few of them.

Though I dont know actually why Yamaha motors has origami section but I believe its because both Yamaha Motors and Origami Art are Japanese.

You can visit the site :
Yamaha Motors Paper crafts