Image source: Designed and Folded by Akira Nguyen This one is also made from 30 units and the units are folded from 2:3 ratio rectangles. This is a really great design and I especially like the blue and yellow star paper used here. Here’s another one with a really great design and a really great colour combination. Image source: Designed and Folded by Natalia Romanenko Here’s another really great curly design. Image source: Mandragora, Designed by Ekaterina Lukasheva and Folded by Uschi Mitzkat The purple and shiny paper here is a very nice combination. Image source: Pisidia Kusudama, Designed and Folded by Byriah Loper Video instructions available from Sarah Adam’s YouTube channelīyriah Loper is famous for some incredible interlocking shape models but he’s also designed a few really great kusudamas as well. Image source: Skella Beta, Designed and Folded by Maria Sinayskaya This next one is folded from fake dollar bills which is probably a good thing otherwise this would be one expensive kusudama! This is another design that has holes in it which I quite like. Image source: Sunshine, Designed by Valentina Minayeva and Folded by Akira Nguyen This one is very well put together and I really like the star shapes. Image source: Rosalie, Designed by Natalia Romanenko and Folded by Charles Smithĭiagrams available in British Origami Magazine #279 The name of this one, “Moonstone Rose” really fits with the colours and shapes. Some kusudama designs look a lot like balls of flowers. Image source: Spring Awakening, Designed and Folded by Natalia Romanenko The individual units are 1:2 ratio rectangles. Here’s another beautiful 30-unit kusudama. Image source: Scilla, Designed by Natalia Romanenko and Folded by Uschi Mitzkat The colour combinations you can use to fold these are endless! This is another 30-unit kusudama. Next we have a quite elegant looking one with some luxurious looking gold and black paper. Image source: Tiara, Designed and Folded by Ekaterina Lukasheva This one is folded from 12 pentagon shaped sheets of paper. It’s folded from regular red Tant paper and then painted with golden, bronze and purple acrylic paints. I really like how this next one almost looks like it’s made out of stone. Image source: ‘Buckie’ (type Truncated Cuboctahedron), Designed and Folded by Tomoaki Yano I should also mention that pretty much all of these are assembled with no glue or tape. Here’s another really great kusudama that’s more on the complex side. Image source: Erythronium, Designed and Folded by Masha Athanasiadi You can always curl the paper too like you see here. You don’t always have to fold your paper with crisp flat angles. Image source: Starline, Designed by Uniya Filonova and Folded by Akira Nguyen Image source: Designed by Tomoaki Yano and Folded by Valentina Minayeva There are 150 units here, 60 purple ones, 3o orange ones and 60 green ones. Image source: 60° Origami Star, Designed and Folded by Maria Sinayskaya It’s folded using 12 units that are 2:3 ratio rectangles. This next one is absolutely beautiful with an excellent choice of paper. Image source: Twirl Rhombicosidodecahedron, Designed by Krystyna Burczyk and Folded by Uschi Mitzkat This next one believe it or not uses 300 units! That’s 300 pieces of paper folded and assembled together to make this! Uschi Mitzkat was also able to reverse engineer the design and fold this without any instructions. Image source: Strange Midnight, Designed and Folded by Ekaterina Lukasheva This one is also folded using 30 units (many kusudamas use exactly 30 units). Most of the time kusudamas are completely closed in but sometimes they’re open with holes in them like what you see here. Image source: Allegretto, Designed and Folded by Masha Athanasiadi They’re often quite beautiful with very interesting shapes and amazing colour schemes.įirst up we have this beautiful flowery orange kusudama. A kusudama is essentially a modular paper model made up of various units assembled into a ball-like shape. It’s time to take another look at origami kusudamas.
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