The bird base rose
Posted: June 27th, 2005, 10:44 pm
Eugene Craig Campbell posted on the O-list a while ago some directions for doing a rose from a bird base. I tried to follow the instructions and accomplished something that resembles a rose but I could not find a way to lock the petal from un-twisting. I asked her but even though I received an answer I still could not finish the rose. Did anyone else tried it and succeded? I think such a rose is pictured here http://thedesignspace.net/art/gallery/palmer/aad is the large one on the bottom left.
In case anyone wants to try the written instructions here they are:
A fifth-grader here in Korea gave me an elegant
> and simple rose. It's hard to believe nobody
> has ever diagrammed and published it. She said
> her grandmother taught her.
>
> Mountain fold each flap of a bird base such the
> four tips meet underneath in the center. Do it
> first on two opposing flaps, then valley fold
> each mountain-folded flap -- vertically,
> assuming the point at the center of the paper
> is facing upwards. When you valley fold those
> two, the other two opposing flaps -- at 90
> degrees to the first two -- will flatten out to
> enable the mountain fold on the second two.
>
> If the point at the center of the paper is
> pointing upward, the four mountain folds are on
> the bottom. You see only one at a time; flip
> the model over horizontally and you see the
> opposing one. The other two are hidden inside
> at your left and right. The midpoints of the
> mountain folds of these two hidden flaps now
> lie along the two vertical valley folds on
those
> two flaps, and those two midpoints meet each
> other at the same point (inside, hidden) that
> the two midpoints meet each other of the
visible
> flaps -- that is, the flaps that can be seen
> (facing you and on the opposite side, visible
> if you flip the model over).
>
> These four midpoints of the mountain folds are
> important.
>
> Each midpoint is to be creased against the
> rightmost and leftmost points of the model as
> it lies flat, which are obtuse angles. Lift the
> bottom midpoint of the flap you see, towards
> you, to the tip of the left obtuse angle point
> and crease; repeat to the right angle point.
> Flip the model and do the same on the opposing
> flap. Now reverse which flaps that will be
> visible and which will be hidden, and repeat
> the creasing. Eight creases are made.
>
> Open the model so that all four flaps are
> exposed; no longer will it lie flat. Hold the
> top tip and twist the four ridges (not the four
> flaps -- the four flaps have now become outer
> petals). The four ridges twist around a time or
> two, as much as you can do it (fingernails will
> help, a pair of tweezers will help even more).
> The rose is formed.
>
> To stabilize the rose and make the outer petals
> seem more natural, bend each of the eight outer
> corners down a bit.
In case anyone wants to try the written instructions here they are:
A fifth-grader here in Korea gave me an elegant
> and simple rose. It's hard to believe nobody
> has ever diagrammed and published it. She said
> her grandmother taught her.
>
> Mountain fold each flap of a bird base such the
> four tips meet underneath in the center. Do it
> first on two opposing flaps, then valley fold
> each mountain-folded flap -- vertically,
> assuming the point at the center of the paper
> is facing upwards. When you valley fold those
> two, the other two opposing flaps -- at 90
> degrees to the first two -- will flatten out to
> enable the mountain fold on the second two.
>
> If the point at the center of the paper is
> pointing upward, the four mountain folds are on
> the bottom. You see only one at a time; flip
> the model over horizontally and you see the
> opposing one. The other two are hidden inside
> at your left and right. The midpoints of the
> mountain folds of these two hidden flaps now
> lie along the two vertical valley folds on
those
> two flaps, and those two midpoints meet each
> other at the same point (inside, hidden) that
> the two midpoints meet each other of the
visible
> flaps -- that is, the flaps that can be seen
> (facing you and on the opposite side, visible
> if you flip the model over).
>
> These four midpoints of the mountain folds are
> important.
>
> Each midpoint is to be creased against the
> rightmost and leftmost points of the model as
> it lies flat, which are obtuse angles. Lift the
> bottom midpoint of the flap you see, towards
> you, to the tip of the left obtuse angle point
> and crease; repeat to the right angle point.
> Flip the model and do the same on the opposing
> flap. Now reverse which flaps that will be
> visible and which will be hidden, and repeat
> the creasing. Eight creases are made.
>
> Open the model so that all four flaps are
> exposed; no longer will it lie flat. Hold the
> top tip and twist the four ridges (not the four
> flaps -- the four flaps have now become outer
> petals). The four ridges twist around a time or
> two, as much as you can do it (fingernails will
> help, a pair of tweezers will help even more).
> The rose is formed.
>
> To stabilize the rose and make the outer petals
> seem more natural, bend each of the eight outer
> corners down a bit.