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Mushroom (Vincent Floderer): Crumpling
17 September 2009 - 10:36am — Sara
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I stumbled upon this video by Vincent Floderer demonstrating how to fold his mushroom. While you might argue whether it's still origami or not, it is definitely an interesting technique.
I'll avoid the discussion by simply calling it "crumpling". Anyone know what crumple means in Japanese? Google translate suggest: 揉む (crumpling) or 揉む紙 (crumpling paper).
Paper: 48cm square of Kraft paper (28gsm) - leftover from a failed attempt of another model
Model: 14.5cm height, 10cm diameter
And that's the great thing about crumpling, I guess. Just use the paper you would have else thrown away - and it only takes 2 minutes to complete.
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Hello.
Hi!Could this model be folded by gift wrapping paper?
Don't think so
Try baking paper instead. Paper napkins also work quite well, but you have to be extremely careful not to add too much water when forming the stem, and you probably need to stabilize it until it's fully dried.
-- Sara
Paper
Hi Sara,
I tried to fold it, but I didn't have the appropriate paper.
What is the paper called and where did you buy it?
Thanks for feedback.
Mabye?
You wet fold it. You crumple then you wrap it with ruber band and dunk it in water. Yuo wait untill it dries and you take off the rubber bands. (I'm kinda late am I?)
Paper choice
I used 28gsm Kraft paper, which was available on www.origamishop.com, but it was apparently discontinued. Vincent Flodderer uses butcher's paper, I think.
-- Sara
Thank you I thougt, I never
Thank you
I thougt, I never could make this mushroom with normal paper.
But now it should work.
Great model!
Hi Sara,
This mushroom looks great...I will be trying it out shortly....I hope mine comes out as good as yours. By the way, I thought I'd send you the link of another video (Vincent Floderer's design, again) on the 'crumpling technique' This one of of Vincent Floderer's sea urchin (I think!) and is folded or crumpled rather from a napkin!
Here t is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bla5c5THSoI
I thought you would find it interesting :)
hi sara
what was the failed attempted model?
also what is the hardest thing you have ever folded?
Secretary Bird
I tried folding the Secretary Bird by Roman Diaz, but found the paper was just too big to work with comfortably. It's always hard to say which the hardest model is, but it should either be Satoshi Kamiya's ancient dragon, or Hung Cuong Nguyen's eagle.
-- Sara