11/2/2022 0 Comments Origami boxHer work has been featured in fiber magazines, galleries, and numerous online design sites. Rose teaches monthly rug hooking workshops in and around her home in NYC, and also welcomes commissions for one of a kind constructions in decor and home furnishings. With a background in fine arts and a love of well designed functional objects, her creations blur the lines between art and craft and pushes the boundaries with non-traditional techniques and materials. Rose is an artist, teacher, and textile designer. Thanks to Rose Pearlman for preparing this tutorial and photographing the step-by-steps. Here, we used large format linen fabric remnants that are 12″ square from Fog Linen, Liberty of London remnants that were probably closer to 8″ square, and ticking stripe from squares that were slightly smaller than that. We’ll share our technique for starching the fabric later this week, so stay tuned and save your scraps. The starch gives the fabric a paper-like texture and makes it sturdy enough to fold and crease into boxes using the exact same tutorial as above. They’re excellent for stashing all kinds of things and predictably, very satisfying for stacking inside one another, matryoshka doll-style.Ībove are masu boxes we made from fabric we stiffened with a simple cornstarch paste. If you start with a square of paper, you can make just about any size box you’d like. + Repeat all the folding steps to make your second side of the box, and you’re done! + To make the inside box you will need a second sheet of paper that is ½” shorter on both sides. This step is easiest done visually…so refer to the video or image. Folding the triangle flap in towards the center of the box by folding + Scissors (optional and only needed to cut your paper into a square-see below for simple instructions) + Two sheets of square kraft paper (or any paper of your choosing) (The box above is made using starched fabric paper!) Materials: Make one and you can corral all the little notions knocking around your bedside drawer. Make two, (one slightly smaller than the other) and you can safely store those notions away…just don’t forget to add a label. Here’s one of my favorites-the masu box-perfect for its proportions, its simplicity, and its many, many uses. If it wasn’t for Sok Song’s simple magazine cover box, I would not have taken the deep dive I did into all sorts of functional origami creations. While I am nowhere near the first to fold paper into a box, I cannot help but share this little miracle of a craft. With these boxes I organize drawers, package gifts, and spend too much time looking for all the little things that I boxed up and forgot to properly label. I’ve made boxes from scrap paper, from kid’s art, phone bills, magazines, wrapping paper, and lately from fabric turned paper turned box (more on that magic in a bit). Here was this craft so perfect in form, so simple in materials, so easy in technique, and yet so adaptable that I have since made hundreds of all-sized boxes. It was craft taught to me at my parents’ dining room table, from a dear friend I’ve known since childhood who learned it from her friend and origami artist, Sok Song. It was late summer when I folded my first Japanese origami box. #ORIGAMI BOX HOW TO#And later this week: we’ll show you how to make paper out of…fabric! We’ve given photographic and written instructions below and for those of us who benefit from a step-by-step walk through, we’ll be sharing a video on my Instagram feed later in the day. Who could blame me? Heed Rose’s advice and label your boxes, but don’t let this stop you from boxing up everything you’ve got rolling around your drawers or dressers. I’ve also sent Uno cards and checkers pieces packing, and, yes, maybe even a fistful of cough drops found a new place for getting secreted away. In my house this week, I’ve been using the simple paper boxes to stash children’s ibuprofen bottles and thermometers that would otherwise be littering dresser tops. In the world of origami, the name applies to this classic square box that can be filled up and used for just about anything. During the celebration, held just before the first day of spring in the Lunar calendar, masu boxes are filled with roasted soybeans and the beans are thrown into corners of homes, temples, and shrines to drive away evil spirits. Masu boxes were originally small square wooden boxes used for measuring rice in Japan and when my friend Sachiko saw the boxes we made, she was immediately reminded of the Japanese celebration of Setsubun. These origami masu boxes come together without scissors, tape, or glue, and they’re addicting to make once you memorize the folds. All three of my kids are home sick this week, so a tutorial for something that makes anything at all feel neat and tidy and moderately contained is feeling just right.
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