This form is easy to weave but it takes some time. When woven from 6 colours the form will present all possible combinations of 3 and 5 colours in the points. The woven Rhombic Triacontahedron has 30 faces and is made from 6 identical parts. I used 6 different colours. The template of a single…
Anna considered that we should investigate ways to vary the pattern on the small balloons. When making the arms wavy a pattern resembling horizontal stripes emerge. The balloon is woven just like the balloon of Mobile #001. We have, however, included the improved basket and strip (3 sizes to choose from to make a perfect…
Anna made the patterns for this new flat box with an onion dome top. For my box I used paper of quality 80 g/sqm. This is not quite heavy enough for the large container. 100 g/sqm or possibly 120 g/sqm would be better. However, the small squares in the top of the onion dome can…
Easy to weave. Looks impressive. I include patterns for a form with three strips and one with two. The form with two strips has a volume comparable to those of the tetrahedron and the octahedron. A Rhombic Dodecahedron has 12 faces and is made from 8 pieces. You need four of the pieces you find on…
This woven icosahedron is surprisingly simple and easy to make. The pieces are actually the same as those used for the tetrahedron. You may use those too. I have however, only made three strips – otherwise the icosahedron would have been rather large compared to the other forms I made. Cut out 2 x 5…
This woven tetrahedron is far easier to weave than the octahedron. Cut out the 2 identical pieces Score along the flap and along the imaginary lines connecting the valley bottom between the small triangles and the corners Cut away the small triangles from the sides of the strips Crease so that the forms swirl in…
The woven octahedron is a bit of a challenge – also explaining how to. Cut out the 2 x 2 identical pieces, colour A (=yellow) and B (=purple) Score and crease along the imaginary lines between corners of the hexagon. The four small pyramids must all swirl in the same direction (#1) Fix the top…
Anna made the pattern for this balloon in triaxial weaving. The balloon is woven from three layers of paper just like the “Box woven from three layers”. You may go to that post to get more acquainted with this kind of weaving. In particular the round pieces for the top and bottom may be of…
These Cross Flags are joined or you may say twisted or sliced together. There are the simple single cross flags like the National flags of Denmark, Sweden and Finland and the more complicated double cross flags of Norway and Iceland. The flags are simple to make. They do, however, only look correct on one side.…
It is my Birthday today and my family thought I might need a new cutting machine. My well used Silhouette SD still works fine but it has become pretty noisy lately. The new Cameo has a larger cutting board and that introduces great new possibilities that I am looking forward to explore. First thing to…
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