Origami Tessellation: Clover Folding by Shuzo Fujimoto

[TheGaintking5]

AdamSara, it sure took you long for the drawing creases

[lamyeenam]

What's the difference of the two vids

[BibsyP]

That was so hard. I am running before I can walk I think.

I bought Eric Gjerde book. Makes so little sense. I need to see demonstrations. Your demos help very much to understand what he is talking about.

[antonstenholm]

{-.-} Im soooo mad right now... I made it to 24:18 and my uncel spilled coffé over it -.-

[sonichaven]

i love origami. i'm good at origami. but damn, i suck a tessellations >.<

[MsYoungmoney2]

i set it up wit the grid,got the first square but can't do all the squares after the 1st one

[Anyjupiter]

This video I inspired me again. But every time I see if you make a new video I cry because my wish you could make more videos ;(  Cullen ;(

[Oridom66]

You are a great teacher, Sarah! Thanks for introducing this to me! Its now my favorite origami tesselation!

[frostedfox]

Finished it! Used a 2x2 inch square, I likes me a challenge.

Thank you for uploading, you're an wonderful teacher!

[lpslover28]

OMG IM CONFUSED!!!!! :(

[Luvpeaceheartsong]

ahhh who knew a piece of paper could do so many different things?? who started origami anyway? he/she is my hero

[snowypetrel]

A flat sheet of paper is a beautiful thing.

[RareDude493]

i used as a ninja star :3

[safa20071]

great video

[roter1996]

Yeah ! my second tessellation (Very Very Very Thanks)

[mramazingorigamii]

thank you thank you thank you

[kiwication]

nice videos! but why do the camera keep moving around in this video?

[kazenzu]

The actual folding begins @08:30 Just make a 16x16 grid (plus diagonal creases) and start from there, if yo want to get to the hard part faster! xD

[TheFluffyFilms]

took me over an hr but i got it

[joeorigami1999]

Guys she's made a tutorial for a 5 stage one! Go check it out!

[Sylphadora]

OK, so finally I was able to figure it out!! Well, not really, but I don't know how I managed to do that last part XD It looks really beautiful =) I'm off to fold another one ^^

[Sylphadora]

I'm so stuck at minute 20:00!! T_T This is so frustrating!! XO This one is even more difficult to fold than the hydrangea. But I still like the hydrangea better, though both tessellations look really cool =)

[DANTE292]

ASIAN

[godofslang]

@DANTE292 And?

[TheSkillStreaker]

you have a nice voice for chorus :)

[MrEllinas21]

if i want to vary it.I have to crease to the center again the crease you've made at 2:40 and make a 32 division grid?

[AdamsSara]

@MrEllinas21 What do you mean by vary? If you want more stages, please check happyfolding(dot)com and search for "clover folding". In the page to the 7-stage tessellations there's some advice on how to proceed.

[MrEllinas21]

@AdamsSara ok thanks

[MrEllinas21]

@AdamsSara ok thx I mean exactly this

[bears7777777]

all i got was a wad of paper...

THAT LOOKS TOTALLY AWESOME!!! My very first tessellation was the water bomb tessellation video you made, this is my second.

Thanks :-)

[origamieder]

me encantan tus vidios y sobre todo este

[julianrafael99]

how do you make it bigger ive made today and i want to make one bigger

[AdamsSara]

@julianrafael99 I'll probably post a video on how to make more levels. I've gotten so many queries on this! I'm not sure when, though.

[alberlos]

@AdamsSara I did it with 7 stages and I want to post a video showing how to do it.

Can I make a video showing how to make more than 3 levels or i have to ask for permission to the author?

please respond

(my english is very bad)

[Pwner368]

@AdamsSara great video, in your latest tutorial you show the "open" variety of this model, can you show how to do that?

[200gaston]

How to make the clover has more leaves?

[PerfectCellX]

How are those dots appearing out of nowhere!?

[14hsoj]

thx u helped so much im getting good at this also i tryed making this with tissue foil and it turned out awesome the only thing is is it`s really flatend once u finish it with the tissue foil but since i made it huge i could puff it out and it looked 3d and i rounded all the edges on the outside layer. but one question im really stuck on figuring out how to make it with more layers so i was hoping u could make a vid on how to do it with more lavers and put your version of it with tissue foil in

[kindercollecter2]

I can't see anything you do from 19:58 to 20:10 please explain closer so I can SEE it because the squares are so small you don't know which one you are talking about or folding, and when making the 16x16 grid that way they are not equal which i found surprising coming from you who usually likes everything to be very precise

[AdamsSara]

@kindercollecter2 I'm just explaining in that step. Continue watching and check where I add creases if that's better to see. I basically always fold my blintz grids like that and get great precision with it. I guess it's about practice, not the technique itself.

[guitarheroboy266]

i'm watching this and i'm like "WTF? where did those dotted lines come from :O"

[killerczar]

i love your voice

[darthsion71]

can we do the precreasing without doing it your way without the paper layers?

[AdamsSara]

@darthsion71 You can do the precreasing in whatever way you like - as long as the creases are in the same places. :)

[06constablec]

and like magic lines appear!

[kayzap]

i just made soem of these :D thanks alot <3

[AdamsSara]

@kayzap Cool, great to hear this!

[harrygamer]

WOAH! WHERE DID THOSE LINES COME FROM -.-

[TheJannstar]

Our Family has been doing Origami our whole life since we were little girls. I found your tutorial on this tessellation and I am so stoked! I have rekindled my love for folding!

[trrngrl01]

after learning the other day to make a grid (thanks to you), today I made my first tessellation.... yeap I have a nice clover folding ^_^ which I could no way have made without your tutorial. I hope you don't mind me calling you my origami teacher.

btw I switched to craft paper from glossy and simple office paper and it made my life easier... could you please write in your site or make a tutorial about paper selection according to category of models? things like what we should look for etc.

[AdamsSara]

@trrngrl01 Good to hear this! Re paper selection: I've been thinking about and drafting a new section for my site that will concentrate on where to buy paper. I also wanted to link to pictures of models that I folded from that paper (and link from those image pages back to the paper description/sources page). Does this match with what you're looking for? I haven't completed my draft yet, and it will need some time to put this into place. Unfortunately, time is scarce right now. :(

[trrngrl01]

@AdamsSara the section you are describing would be very helpful, though that was not what I had in mind. Let me try and explain lol (english is not my first language either so I will try to be more to the point). I am actually talking about a general guideline of the characteristics the paper should have according to the kind of origami folded, i.e the weight of the paper. I just found that I can make nice tessellations from a somewhat heavier paper than 80g but it is not as good for cranes

[AdamsSara]

@trrngrl01 Well, paper weight is not the only aspect. It's about the crispness of the paper, whether it breaks easily, how thick it is (rather than heavy), stuff like that. I think it's actually better to say "this paper works" and make some remarks on which properties it has. I fear just paper weight would be misleading. -- As to tessellations from heavier paper: I have folded some from elephant hide (110 gsm), and this leads to really nice results.

[trrngrl01]

@AdamsSara Thanks now I got the idea! It would be very helpful if you did a reference to the properties of the paper that would work as you say. I was thinking wrongly about paper weight because that is all I find in sites that sell paper. You see its less than a month that I am folding and still trying to figure things out. So for the time being I will go on learning to fold from the craft paper I have, in anticipation of the new section in your site. Thank you for sharing all that knowledge :)

[thescreem34]

where do you get transsparent paper?

[AdamsSara]

@thescreem34 You can look for pergamyn or glassine in arts and crafts stores.

[allyahinblack]

I had so much fun making this, thank you for the tutorial. I think I have a neaw hobby now :)

[AdamsSara]

@allyahinblack Great to hear you enjoyed it. :)

[orangebutterfly1223]

awsesome i made it but i dont have my camra to upload my video =(

[maimay234]

YES! i finished it! except, its uneven and block-like, but thats okay! next time, its going to turn out better. thank u for the video-without it, the diagrams would have confused me to no end!

[Lunabug1469]

Okay. so i finally finished it after like 2 hours. Haha i do not advise beginners to try this. I just started doing origami yesterday, and then i though "oh hey i could do this" Haha i finished it though. this is the hardest one i've ever done....

[AdamsSara]

@Lunabug1469 That's quite amazing, I really wouldn't say this is a beginner's model. Well done you for completing one in just 2 hours!

[Lunabug1469]

@AdamsSara Lol. Thanks. i was surprised with myself. I almost quit about halfway through but i decided it would be better just to keep doing it, because thats the only way i'm going to get better at it.

[lanswipe]

i tried it but i cant get those dotted lines to appear when i fold the paper :(

[howtoguy17]

go to hell paper! after i folded it the worng way lol

[gangroup]

YAY I MADE ONE. it took me one day T_T

[bonebreakboy]

I didn't quite understand in video what you said about making more than 3 stages, so, I wanted to know what is the principle to making more stages?

[AdamsSara]

@bonebreakboy Try checking my website: happyfolding(dot)com/gallery-f­ujimoto-7_stage_clover_folding - maybe this will help.

[Tashisbash]

that is soo beautiful!!

[magicmanforever321]

you should use the fast forward you used in the hydrangea,you have great origami skills

[matsuboy007]

i have made today the ancient dragon it is poor i go made another 1 maybe that 1 is better

[GR1o6180339887498948]

It's a lot like chaos theory, it gets complicated very fast.

[TheOrigamiO]

sara you are so tallented i also do stuff life that like the spiral snail shell and hard things please write back theorigamio

[AdamsSara]

@TheOrigamiO I usually find it hard to answer if now question is asked. Else I'd be posting lots of comments just saying "Hi", which isn't *that* interesting. ;)

[OrigamiTime]

how many divisions for 5 stages?

[AdamsSara]

@OrigamiTime For 5 stages you need to start with 28 divisions. The rule is: (6 * no of stages) - 2

[zoraxbrooks]

you should try to make an oragami model of your own, then maybe show us how to make it, or just show it to us...

[AdamsSara]

I have designed a simple origami eagle, check happyfolding(dot)com/diagrams

[oragamiqueen35]

cool. where are you from?

[AdamsSara]

Germany.

[nikskill3223]

when you did seven levels how big was the paper you used in the video "origami tessellations"

[AdamsSara]

I used a 19.5cm square of pergamyn for the 7-level clover folding shown in the "Origami Tessellations" video. So the grid creases are about 5mm apart.

[Cherylee0111]

How do you do 7 stage

[AdamsSara]

I think you need to start with ... 40 divisions, rather than 16 in the beginning. Other than that, you just have to repeat the steps over and over. The 4th stage is only slightly different to the 3rd stage (as shown in this video), and from there on the steps really are all the same. Note though, that every extra stage you add takes about as much time as all the stages put together before. So a model with 4 stages takes twice as long as one as 3 stages, and 7 stages takes about 16 times as long.

[03mrx]

Yay, I did it! It really looks good! Thanks!

[SwartFrancois]

This is one of the first tessellations I did (still want to by the book by Eric Gjerde you talked about).

Shuzo Fujimoto seems to have many interesting tessellations though. Do you know of any books either by him, or containing his work? Thanks :-)

[superfunniestever]

how do you make more then 3 stages

[AdamsSara]

It's conceptually the same. I'll think about maybe showing the slight differences for the further stages. Mostly, though, it's just a patience exercise. Each new stage takes about as much time as all the ones before taken together.

[Cherylee0111]

Yay! I finally did it!!

[ying122]

how do you make 7 stages clover folding cuz i always fail :(

[superfunniestever]

me too

[Daniela0987]

you rock at origami :D \m/

[encore451]

to make more layers, do you have to make smaller folds ?

[AdamsSara]

If you use the same size paper, then, yes, everything you fold will be smaller. Alternatively you can use larger paper. The rule is that you need to start with a square grid with 6 * (no of stages) - 2 divisions. Then start from the centre and proceed as in the video.

[ifckmepudding]

The art of video editing :3

[sahlaboohlas]

omg! great

[Andza195]

took me an 1 hour, because I wasn't making any origami models for 2 months, but thank you the model is very simple. :)

[hrabbit]

yay! I was able to do it on my first try! (that is pretty rare for me!) I think being able to do the hydrangeas in my sleep helped a lot with this one lol

[sxng]

thank you Sara for those instructions.All of your videos are really clear ,and it's a great pleasure to recreate nice origami for a beginner as me.(sorry for my bad english)

[dkamm65]

Very nice tutorial, thank you so much! It seems so difficult, but you explained it very well. Hats off to Shuzo Fujimoto for the design and hats off to you for the tutorial.

[ItsIvanWhite]

I love the design, it's just a little too complicated for me, it's very pretty though. :)

[paradasia12]

I love all your videos, you make origami easy and fun. : )

[janiscortese]

This is wonderful -- thanks for posting! I learned from your vid and have been tesselating this in as many ways as I can come up with. I love Fujimoto's square-grid tesselations. I adore learning the basics and then running off into left field with them. Very fun! Thanks!

[huhfireheat]

Thanks you very much, it was really beautiful

[5s5t5e5v5e5n]

its like a bigger easier hydrangea

[azulon435]

O_O the vid is huge T-T Ill take forever to see it TToTT wish it were divided into parts

[Parzec]

Amazing video and a really awesome model. Too bad that no matter how precise I try to be it always end up skewed in at the very least one place ;)

[PaperFoldingPenguin]

Hi i am learning origami but so far i can make many things: like, jumping frogs, books, parrots, macaw parrots, butterflies, flowers, cranes, penguins and fire works. any one who can come watch my videos at tony4tee or PaperFoldingPenguin! thanks : )

[essboarder23]

i made it. and its AWESOME!!!

[Blackwargreymon]

Beautiful tessellation

Thanks for the video

Now I'm folding this :D

Would you someday upload a Satoshi Kamiya's Divine Dragon (Bahamut) video tutorial? I know... it's A LOT of work to do that... but you will be the eternal origami hero on youtube for something like that xD

Keep your nice work...

Bye Bye

[LackOfAWittyName]

Satoshi Kamiya.... Good luck getting ahold of him!

[AdamsSara]

Sorry, I won't be posting any of Kamiya-san's models.

[Blackwargreymon]

I figured you say that :p

[Blackwargreymon]

And what about some Hojyo Takashi's models? like his awesome Icarus or the Violinist :D could that be possible?

(or Ronald Koh's King Cobra?... he personally sent me his diagrams for that model... I think he probably could give you permission to make a video on the model if you ask him. n_n)

Sorry for my English, I'm from Chile :p

Good Bye

[AdamsSara]

Hm, it seems I make videos people enjoy viewing. :)

[AdamsSara]

Well, I can't give you more info than YouTube already provides... just go on youtube(dot)com/partners

Back when I applied for partnership, I first read through the requirements and terms & conditions, and found that I both met the requirements and was ok with the terms & conditions. I'd just surpassed the 1000 subscribers back then and I told them I'd upload videos about once a month, had permission, etc. They accepted my application and that's about it.

[drepsys]

how were you able to make a 30 minuite video? i thought youtube only alowed to make a 10 minute video.......

[AdamsSara]

As a YouTube Partner you can upload longer videos.

[andredlp18]

this is hydrangea

[AdamsSara]

Actually, it's not. The models are similar, but definitely not the same. In the hydrangea tessellation, you fold from the outermost stage to the smaller, inner ones. In this one all stages are the same size (although the number of squares increases), and you start in the center.

[sephiroth87932]

hi i folded the paper into 32's and im stuck on one part when your do the fold at 17:15 a second time there is a middle flap and i don't know how to fold that down can you make a video or respond on how to fold it?

[AdamsSara]

I'll see if I find the time to show how to do more than 3 stages. It's indeed only the step at 17:15 that has to be explained to generalise to as many levels as you like.

[sephiroth87932]

thank you and thanks for the video =)

[codey1233211]

thanks sara this was a great model

[I0met0him]

I don't understand the waterbomb/open sink at 17:15. The part I don't understand is how to flatten it... Any suggestions?

[AdamsSara]

Identify the square to flatten. The diagonals will be valley folds, and the horizontal will be a mountain fold. Collapse by pushing in the horizontal crease on each side, thus automatically folding the diagonals in a valley fold. Push the mountain fold that indicates the bottom of the square to lie on the top of the square. I'm not sure these words help, they try to explain what can be seen at 17:15. It might help watching the sequence a couple of times.

[drepsys]

the lines kinda made it complicated, I respect that you ask for permision all the time though!

[ukguy]

thankyou again sara! i did it!!

[gustavoiha]

Sorry I meant paper and not paer

[gustavoiha]

If I divide the paperin 32 parts how many levels will it have?

If I want to make 6 or > levels, how many parts will I have to divide the paer?

[AdamsSara]

If you want to fold n levels, then you have to start with a (6*n - 2) grid. You can fold 5 levels from a 28 grid, or 6 from a 34 grid. If you want to start with a 32 grid, you can either cut off 4/32 on each side, or live with having a slightly different finish of the model. Hope this helps.

[mizi606]

But would the proportion still be the same?

[AdamsSara]

Well, I thought you might have known the model before. 13 hours doesn't sound too bad. Did you take a picture? It'd be interesting to see that. I think the biggest I've seen so far was 11 stages. How did you fare with folding a 100x100 grid?

[AdamsSara]

Why am I finding it hard to believe that? What size paper did you use?

[sosewuta]

Yeah, just finished one with 5 steps^^

[AdamsSara]

Congrats.

[justagirl5800]

is this one like the hydrangea?

[sephiroth87932]

not quite but it looks similiar to it

[AdamsSara]

It's from the same designer, and you might say it's a hydrangea "upside down".

[Kookoo180]

This is a very beautiful piece.

Keep up the good work! :)

[elboberto7]

why do most of the origami people that make videos have cool accents? i want one

[sosewuta]

Because most of them are not native english speakers ;)

[mizi606]

This video shows how precise and how much craftsmanship one needs to make this model correctly!

Great job. I don't see many videos of yours that were more than 10 minutes long each. It's very convenient to have it all in one video!

[AdamsSara]

Yes, I decided to try uploading a video > 10 minutes, and it actually works. I read that partners could recently, and it seems that's true. That means my future videos won't have to be split into parts anymore. Exciting!

[amaza888]

Nice!  Thanks for the tutorial !

;-)

[sosewuta]

Ich hab grad eben das dreistufige fertig gefaltet. Nich gerade schwierig, dank der tollen Anleitung von dir :)

Ma schaun, vielleicht versuch ich nachher mal eins mit mehr Studen zu falten.

[AdamsSara]

Das freut mich zu hören!

[CTU4105]

You almost sound like the liquid robot that was on the Sarah Conor chronicles. Looks awesome tho.

[backyardiganslover]

that looks hard lol

[RubiksOrigami]

No it isn't. If you know how to fold the hydreadra. This should be fairly easy.

[backyardiganslover]

what about if your not good at origami? (like me lol) :D

[RubiksOrigami]

Try and try again or just give up. :P

[backyardiganslover]

lol okay i might try :D

[AdamsSara]

Patience and practice help. :)

[AdamsSara]

I think "clover folding" might be a bit easier than "hydrangea", because you don't need to do the nasty unsink step in this one.