Weaving Paper Polyhedra

SPECIAL NOTICE (2008 November 23): Since 2008 November 16, a large number of users have been accessing this page. There has been a 1000% increase in the number of visitors as well as the number of kilobytes transferred. I appreciate the interest in my polyhedra page, and I hope that translates into increased attendance at SUUSI and at my Polyhedra Origami workshop there next year. However, this increased interest is threatening not only access to this page but to my ENTIRE website, including two blogs. This is because Earthlink has a 1 gigabyte limit on the number of bytes that can be transferred from the site; after this, they shut off access to the site. So I am asking you in the future to access my page from Comcast instead, and to change your web page links to reflect the new Comcast address. This address is:

http://home.comcast.net/~jimvb/polyhedra.htm

On 2008 December 1, this page will be removed from my Earthlink site, and you will have to access it from the above address. Also, if you know the source of this increased traffic (e.g., if you are an instructor of an origami class and you gave this page as a resource), please contact me at jimvb at mindspring.com and let me know. Thanks.

 

Weaving paper polyhedra is a little-known art that produces beautiful solids or objects out of specially cut strips of construction paper by weaving them together. The solids hold together without any glue, tape, or paper clips, although clips may be used while building the solid to hold it together. They are attractive anywhere, and make great Christmas ornaments; the bigger ones can top your tree. I give a workshop on making the models every year to the Southeast Unitarian Universalist Summer Institute (SUUSI).

If you would like to find out how to make these models, one way is to click on the captions. Some of them are hyperlinks and clicking on them leads to instructions by word and to the patterns for making them. It is better to learn from someone in person, so consider attending my workshop at SUUSI. This requires going to SUUSI, which is a great experience - try it some time. If you can't get to SUUSI and would like to find out how to make these solids, and live within driving distance of Richmond, Virginia, and have a large enough group, I may consider giving the workshop elsewhere.

Here are some of the solids that can be produced:



Geodesic
Starface
Solid Octagon
World
Kiteball

Jim Blowers

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