Origami Creations - A rose (薔薇花) by any other name

As what we've heard and read a lot, it says that "a rose by any other name, is still a rose".  But it is said, that the correct and actual quote is "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" and taken from the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

In origami, there is a famous Rose model by the name of Kawasaki and a lot of the rest of the models practically follows its folding base.  Named after its creator Toshikazu Kawasaki, he was the first to develop the technique of "iso-area folding" i.e. symmetrical folding on all 4 sides to make your origami model piece.

Below is a photo to show the folding symmetry.

A sequence of prelim folds to make the Rose

Noticed that all four sides are folded the same way (a mirror image of each other).

And, below is the final model with some curling to try and imitate the beauty of the Rose.

A full blown Kawasaki Rose

A full and midway Rose bloom

Isn't it a beauty?  

Therefore, in origami, a Rose by any other name is still a Kawasaki Rose.

Have a great day!

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More info:

Toshikazu Kawasaki Wiki

Origami Creations - Multiple Mini Hydrangea Experience

As I wrote about my Hydrangea origami journey in the days that past, I came to realize that I do want to try and challenge myself and do the multiple hydrangea's - on one paper, no cutting, no gluing.

From planning to do two (2) pieces only, I ended up doing the five (5) pieces hydrangea.  On top of the challenge, I did the mini version (due to paper limitations).  And yes, with a much needed hair puller on one hand :o).

Here are the results of my artwork.  I included a Kinder white chocolate bar for you to have a good comparison of the size of my tessellations.  The kinder bar is 7.5 cm in length.

2 Flowers

4 Flowers (Right one looks nice for a photo frame)

5 Flowers (Nice curvature effect)

 Had great fun folding them most especially the part of compressing them on the initial fold.  One need to make sure that the valleys and mountains are correct or else ...

Have a great day!

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More Info:

Good references when doing these folds are here: