This origami fold is similar to the Turkish map fold, or a continuation of the fold I show here. I first saw this fold in Niko Silvester’s book “Waterlily”. Below are 3 of the finished folds glued together. Under that are instructions for the fold.
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Start with a square piece of paper |
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Fold it in half |
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Open the sheet, rotate it and fold it in half again |
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Open the sheet, rotate it and fold along the diagonal |
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Open the sheet, rotate one more time and fold along the last diagonal |
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Open the sheet & place it so one of the the diagonal folds is pointed at the top. |
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Push the green areas of the sheet together along the horizontal fold (you are reversing this fold). |
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Make the folds crisp with your bone folder. |
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It should now look like this… |
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In the top layer, fold point A to the center line, then point B |
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Press down on the folds with your bone folder to make them crisp. It should look like this now… |
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Flip the whole thing over and fold the edges in on the other side. Press the folds on this side with your bone folder. It should now look like this… |
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Open the sheet completely, carefully unfolding all the folds. The sheet should look like this. |
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This is the only tricky step. Pinch the fold at the red dot with your left hand. Reverse the fold along the red line by using your right hand to push it toward your left hand (this will also reverse the folds that go diagonally from the red dot). Repeat with the folds marked in blue. |
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Once you have the folds reversed, the paper will fold up like this when it is flat. |
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Here’s what it looks like opened up |
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And this is from the side |
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To connect several together, just glue up one wide of one finished fold and place another on top of it. |
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The folds also nest together very nicely. I made this with 4 square sheets of increasing size (2″, 3″, 4″ and 5″). |
Thanks so much for the detailed instructions. I’ve done the turkish map fold but never put several together to make the fabulous waterlily–just lovely
Great tutorial..thank you
Nancy Napier
Great folds
Dear Susan,
I found your tutorial through Pinterest, and wound up making a seven-leaf book using this process today. Here’s some photographs (not very good) and a blogpost about it, and I tried to send back some love in the form of some links.
Thank you very much for the tutorial!
thank you for these tutorials and your website
claude
I’m quite pleased with the iniarmotfon in this one. TY!
Thank you several times as I continue to refer to your wonderful blog.
Angela
Dear Susan – greetings from SF. I just found your instructions. What a great variation of the map fold. I love it! Thank you, I will definitely use this again. Bettina
I made three. The directions were clear. Thanks