Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37495 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 98 pages

Customer Reviews

Beautiful and fascinating origami balls
This book builds on Tomoko Fuse's earlier books that asssembled boxes from perfectly square pieces of paper. The shapes in this book use rectangular pieces of paper (half-squares), usually in two colours or more. You are instructed on how to build basic cube-based, octahedran-based and icosahedron-based shapes (if you have the patience). The repeating units are basically the same, but Tomoko shows many variations to embellish them. The cube shapes require 6-base units, the octahedran requires 12-base units and the icosahedrons (shown on the front-cover) requires 30-base units (60 rectangular pieces of paper).

I'd try Tomoko's boxes before tackling these. Fitting the base units together requires the same skills and the 30-unit ball can get fiddley.

I started to see wrapping paper in a whole new light - cutting up 4cm by 8cm rectangles for the next ball.

Good fun and beautiful results.