The Triaxial Heart illustrates how the triaxial weaving technique may be adapted to a heart shape. To facilitate the pattern the angle at the heart’s point is now 60°. First you weave the heart from two layers, then you weave in the strips of the third layer one by one. This process is far easier than…
The Halloween Lamp Shade has narrow black stripes resembling the legs of a giant spider. The size of the lamp shade shown is 16 cm between upper and lower edge. You may rescale the templates to get another size as you prefer. Remember, do take care and only use the lamp shade for a modern low…
This fall Anna has scheduled a workshop tour around Denmark. Be the first to weave new projects, from our upcoming book “Fletværk – Julehjerter” or learn to weave one of our 3D paper projects. For the beginner there will be projects of less difficulty, for the skilled paper weaver, there will be new challenges. The…
The Lamp Shade with Squares both looks and feels far greater value than the 14 pieces of simple copy paper and the short piece of string required for making it. However, do take care and only use the lampshade for a modern low energy LED light bulb – and still make sure to provide good…
This cute Heart with Teddy Bears is designed by Anna. It must be admitted – it is detailed and rather time consuming to cut out by hand. For the Heart with Teddy Bears you need paper in three colours. The paper may be any paper in quality form 70 g/m2 up to 100 g/m2.…
The Woven Pencil is a challenge for those of you addicted to detail. For weaving the spherical top in the small size necessary a pair of tweezers is mandatory. You also need some paper clips for weaving the pencil shaft. You need two or possibly three colours of paper. Items in the same colour…
Saint Patrick’s Day is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated annually on 17 March. The day commemorates Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461) and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland, as well as celebrates the heritage and culture of the Irish in general. Celebrations generally involve public parades and festivals, céilithe, and the wearing of…
This Joined Valentine Heart illustrates two principles 1) a joined heart may be joined about a point anywhere in the surface of the heart and 2) you may overcome the difficulty of having sections outside the heart shape by gluing together the two pieces of a heart part before joining. The heart is…
Anna designed these cute Red Fly Agaric. She made two different shapes and you may rescale the templates to get even more varieties. The white spots you may apply in the amount of your own choice. Fly agaric was first described by Carl Linnaeus (Swedish botanist and the father of modern taxonomy) in 1753, as…
2013 has been a very busy year for PaperMatrix. We have enjoyed more visitors from all over the Globe than ever before and received loads of positive feedback and gained lots of inspiration from craft blogs with topics that border paper braiding. We have incorporated triaxial weaving – difficult but awesome, and we have made…
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