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Mio tried to assemble parts which are the familiar basic form made by folding processes of some kind of works without glue or thread.
It is the observation report that what kind of form is created and what kind of beauty is hidden in a work.
1. Familiar shape
Mio picked up the shape of the basic form of Froebel patterns.
How to fold is 
2. Arrange parts of form
Parts of form were arranged to be able to get together easily.
Mio tried two types of works.
New five folded lines were added in a part.
Both type A and type B of folding the first process is the same.And in the second process, type A is mountain fold, type B is valley fold.
- Type A : Mountain fold
- Four corners which are gathered at the center are folded as mountain fold to four corners of the form.
- Fold the part in a half as mountain fold.
- Type B : Valley fold
- Four corners which are gathered at the center are folded as valley fold to four corners of the form.
- Fold the part in a half as valley fold.
3. Result of Type A
Quadrille
- © Mio Tsugawa
- Created : Feb . 2011
- Parts : 30
- joint type : modular type
- About the shape
- Type A became the work to not need any joining materials.Because joining parts don't come out to the surface, the form is simple clearly. The form of the polyhedron is not a so new thing.
Slightly bigger holes open at the points that five parts are gathered. The joining parts are assembled without being tight, because these become like a so-called bellows from.
But Mio thinks "It's O. K."
One thing not to be good, the joints of the inside will show the backside of paper larger. - Ingenuity
- Mio set different paper in the joining parts and changed white parts of the back side into yellow.A colour scheme seems to be better.
There is the method that fold parts with reversible origami from a beginning. - Others
- "Quadrille" of the work name is one of the social dances.
4. Result of Type B
Cotillon
- © Mio Tsugawa
- Created : Feb . 2011
- Parts : 30
- Joining materials : paper (1:4) / 60 parts
- About the shape
- This is a work that parts of quadrille are used reversed.Because joining parts come out to the surface, it is shown like a complicated shape.But we can notice that it is a polyhedron same as Quadrille when we trace outlines.
Shown white parts of paper are joining parts.Paper of white parts are joining parts. When one side of the original origami paper is 1,the ratio of length and breadth will be 1 : 0.25.
Unlike Quadrille,even if the joining part has bellows from,- There are joints on the surface,
- Parts will be joined with joining parts,
- Ingenuity
- When the parts are arranged in the process 1, in the case of Quadrille, the reverse sides of paper are not shown on the face of the work by joint. But in the case of Cotillon, these are left.In other words it is in a condition that a lot of back side of the paper appear at the surface of the work.
By using it, Mio was able to use the three colors by folding parts with reversible origami (It has diferent color each on the both sides.) from the beginning and adding joining parts. - Others
- "Cotillon" of the work name is one of the social dances, too. It means a petticoat in French.
5. Conclusion
conclusion and summary
We found that the part familiar became kusudama by getting together into the whole.It is a interesting characteristic that one only different folding line finishes a work in appearance different completely,and it may have a lot of possibility to show the various beauties.Makers can use the back side of the paper with a bit of ingenuity as a design,And it becomes the part that they can express individuality in the work.
It can give changes to the color and the form of the work to use the paper for getting together into the whole. And it is expected that even part which is simpler than the familiar part is connected without difficulty.
The simple processes which were assembling familiar parts make us realize that the kusudama world is limited unlimited art.
report : 16 Feb. 2011
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