Origami chinese thread book

Learn how to make an origami popup book, follow my step by step instructions. This book opens up into 4 sections like a concertina book.

This beautiful, detailed, origami book is a culmination of hours of research, practice, design, and yes even math. I hope that I can save you hours of pain and frustration as you make this amazing and intricate Chinese Thread Book (Zhen Xian Bao). This idea popped into my head after seeing a random project on Pinterest. It had such an impact on me that I had to click. I then spent hours looking at all sorts of origami boxes and thread books. It is a book of folded paper boxes that are glued…

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A very interesting traditional origami structure called Zhen Xian Bao, or Chinese Thread Book. Women made them and carried their sewing supplies in them: threads, snips of fabric, needles, paper patterns, and other relatively flat treasures, all folded and tucked into pockets. The structure is made up of multiple modular boxes, inserted into each other through a series of paper folds and arranged on 5 levels. The "book" can be opened in 37 different ways.

Hello everyone, it’s Chinese New Year tomorrow so I have another Chinese inspired project to share with you all. Chinese Thread Book These date back hundreds of years and show off the art of…

When I began all this —the trip down an internet wormhole chasing a particular origami folding pattern— I had no idea where it would all lead. The hunt for that set of instructions led me to an eno…

Article to this design with more explanations: http://origamitutorials.com/origami-chinese-thread-book/Folding interpretation: Paula VersnickRead more about ...

This is my interpretation to the famous Origami Chinese Thread Book or Zhen Xian Bao, the Chinese name for it. Even though this is a traditional model, the folding interpretation of this version was compiled from Paula Versick. My miniature version has 31 compartments and a total of 5 levels. I only used 6 sheets ...

Since combining the words origami and Zhen Xian Bao or Chinese Thread Book in my search for the ‘star’ box (flowered candy box) I have come across a number of origami versions of the Zh…

"I would often tell people that there are are "hundreds of ways to make books" and I guess I wanted to prove it to myself!", replied Rhonda Miller of My Handbound Books to me when I had asked her about her crazy project and a permission to write about it. I'm constantly think

I first heard about the Chinese Thread Book from my sister-in-law in early February, 2013. Apparently textile collectors had known about them for some time before that, but this was probably about the time people in the book arts started to notice them. Her email mentioning them included a link to a textile forum with…

Running workshops is absolutely one of my favorite things, And this workshop was a good as it gets. Two 6 hour days worked out well. My own big takeaways: Although people had their own desk area to…

One of my many professional hats is a being a practicing book artist, and facilitating paper and book arts workshops across the UK (and if I’m lucky internationally) including papercutting to…