Formerly known as Origami (Ori meaning folding and kami meaning paper), paper art has become a phenomenon in recent years and it is easy to see why...
Make a cool folded paper bracelet using recycled water colour paintings. These make a great mother's day gift, or a perfect tween party activity.
Make these easy DIY Paper Lanterns - perfect as Diwali decorations during the Festival of Lights. A lovely Diwali Craft or Winter Solstice
I recently completed a 30 day online class run by Helen Hiebert called Weaving Through Winter. The class had a very open structure, Helen did a 30 minute video introduction each week on a theme and workshop participants could take the concept and run with it. We posted pictures of what we made and offered comments and suggestions to each other. It was a wonderful daily practice and meditation. If you want to see all 30 of my pieces check out my Instagram posts at @gina_pisello. I will show you my favorites below and tell you a bit about what inspired them. Enjoy! This is one of the last pieces I made in class. I was inspired by weaver Kay Sekimachi and light streaming onto the red paper before sunset. This weaving went through several stages before becoming the piece at the bottom. I tried folding an origami bowl with it, but the shape and size of the weave was wrong for this particular origami piece. I would like to try again with a different weaving pattern. I wove abaca paper strips together then folded it into a Tomoko Fuse spiral. I love the way this turned out. A simple weave around a silhouette. I didn't know what to weave on this day but found inspiration in torn paper torsos I made years ago that sit framed on my desk. This one was hard to weave, but I really like the results. This is a Danish heart basket, commonly made at Christmas time. I used folded paper and wove a love letter with a Japanese paper bag for this simple weaving. There are many more designs for this if you search Pinterest. One week of the course was about weaving shapes. I wanted to do a simple circle and the tension of the weaving caused this to curve nicely off the page. I experimented with hexagonal weaving trying to work out the formula for doing so. Turns out quilters have a way of doing this called triaxial weaving. I liked building this out from the center, but want to try doing it the "right" way sometime soon. The completed hexagon weaving. Another hexagon weaving. I remembered that Claire Van Vliet and Hedi Kyle invented ways to weave books together in the excellent book Woven and Interlocking Book Structures. This one is my favorite with its crossing shapes and locking structures. I created the pages with eco-dyed paper. This was an early weaving from the class. I wanted to explore strips that were angled. I like the optical illusion of it. This is one of the later weavings. I cut warp strips around the leaves on the eco-dyed paper. Then I cut weft strips one at a time to bend around the leaves. I wanted to enhance this central image.
Call it a quilled paper campfire, or call it a quilled paper bonfire, either way it is a fun craft for all ages and requires only very simple supplies. The wonderful Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer is coming up on...
This class will take place again February 15 – March 16, 2021. Registration will open mid-January.
The Diwali Crafts for Kids series continues with a beautiful and "classic" Paper Craft - Paper Quilled Rangoli Patterns!
realizzato con le cannuccie di carta arrotolate, sfruttando i colori delle pagine delle riviste cannucce bianche per il corpo, marrone , arancio e bianche per gli occhi alcuni dettagli piegati e incollati un pezzetto di cannuccia marrone fa da rametto, per le zampette ho avvolto due pezzetti di cannuccia arancio al centro del rametto e ho incollato il tutto tra il corpo e la codina ancora cannucce gialle per le alette che ho incollato ai lati del corpo una piccola calamita incollata sul retro e il gufetto è pronto per accocolarsi sul frigorifero come ferma appunti Alla prossima Gio
Materials: - 2" Construction Paper Strips - Glue Sticks - Rulers - Pencils - 10" x 10" White Drawing Paper
Formerly known as Origami (Ori meaning folding and kami meaning paper), paper art has become a phenomenon in recent years and it is easy to see why...
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Quilling, also known as paper filigree, is an art form that involves rolling and gluing thin strips of paper into various shapes and arranging them to form designs. Quilled paper designs can be very simple or as complex as you have the dexterity and patience for!
7th grade students just finished an art assignment involving paper cutting and layering colors. This lesson was originally from School Arts Magazine and written by Helaine Schechtman. We started by…
Published in Design (Vol. 69, No. 2, 1967)
handmade collage
Yesterday at our group social day I was interested in the paper weaving being done by our member Dinah. She’s currently one of many people worldwide who are undertaking an on-line paper weav…
This project is based on the book Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella by Tony Johnston. We used 1 inch wide paper strips and glued them together. We ...
C’est le premier lever de soleil de l’année que l’on admire traditionnellement au Japon le 1er janvier. Une bien jolie tradition, et l'...
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