Another fun and enjoyable past time for me is to create modular or kusudama origami.
The unifying definition for these terms is that they are made of two (2) or more repetitive paper folds and connected together either with or without glue. What differs though is that, a kusudama (a Japanese term), is spherical like in shape while modular origami does not need to be one.
For me, the joy of making these origami art pieces is when joining the parts together. It is sort of a puzzle in itself and makes a good gift for family and friends.
Here are some of the ones that I have made all of which does not require gluing (I find it too tedious and troublesome to work with glue).
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| Mostly using recycled computer paper. |
The most number of pieces that I have to make was making and connecting 120 pieces. But my most favorite of all is making and connecting 12 pieces only such as the ones below:
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| Origami Cube |
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| Origami Mette Rings - Creator Mette Pederson |
There are many tutorials in the internet on creating modular origami. I would recommend for you to try Origami Nut (http://www.origaminut.com/) as a start.
Happy Folding!!!
More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusudama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_origami
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