Origami Rose Nation, Rising!
A Chad Stewart from some place Southern writes in to say, “Hey, y’all! where’s the phreakin’ diagrams?”
Em. Haven’t made them yet. We will, but we’re still waiting for understanding to take place. (Ours, that is; yours will come later.)
Of course, if the world stopped every time we didn’t understand something, we’d still be negotiating with Khrushchev. Here’s a slightly improved Crease Pattern for your experimentation pleasure.
After I drew this, I realized this model has up and down to deal with. Okay, this is the underside of the rose you’re looking at, and the spiral will come towards you as you twist it, to form the top of the stem. The other side of the paper will be surface of the petals — no lines showing.
I’m not positive this CP is 100% accurate, but we’ll see. It’s the side locking that’s the real tricky part.
Here are some other shots:
The flag lacks of a 3 in the upper right corner 😛
December 16th, 2006 at 7:27 pmgreat model Philip, I’ll surely give it a try when I have some free time!
What a gorgeous rose! I’ve folded 2-3 varieties, but have never seen yours. Where can I find the diagrams? thanks
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:05 amHey Larry,
There are any diagrams yet — kind of what the post is about. There may be in future. In the meantime, you might want to try the crease pattern, linked above.
And, given your IP address, I feel a slight bit odd in telling you, you need to start from a circle with a Pentagon *cough* inscribed in it. You can find the directions for that right here.
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 ami just loved this model, ill try your cp. i believe that the dashed lines are mountain folds and the dash-doted valeys right? weel i guess ill find it out anyway. gratz on ur website!
March 12th, 2009 at 2:05 pmOther way around. Thanks!
March 12th, 2009 at 2:09 pmGAH!!!! i got it until the locking part… 🙂
then again… everything up to that point is pretty self explanatory… :/
June 5th, 2009 at 1:47 amLovely flower!!!! It’s a pity I can’t do from the cp…
January 7th, 2010 at 6:55 pmI think I met you at origaMIT convention.
November 21st, 2011 at 6:51 pmI LOVE this model. simple(ish) and it really looks like a rose.
More ish than simple, I think. But go for it.
November 21st, 2011 at 7:52 pmLooking forward for the diagrams, beautiful. roses indeed.
September 10th, 2013 at 4:04 pmhow do i even start this? I’m new to origami, but want to be able to make this rose…
help please!
June 5th, 2014 at 7:08 pm