Masu Box Lid - Tutorial

 After the tutorial for making the masu box, here is the tutorial for the lid :) The lid is made from a square the same size as the base. In spite of that, it needs to be slightly larger than the base so that it fits well....

Masu Box - Tutorial

When I had posted these masu boxes earlier, a friend of my mother's, a very creative lady herself, had remarked on my Facebook page that these boxes very amazingly beautiful :) Well, that gave me quite a high! And got me...

Wreath / Flower Wheel

This wreath is from David Petty's book 'Origami 1-2-3'. I have previously tried out a few projects from this book and promptly lost the book! That is, till I found it during some house cleaning :) This modular piece sounded...

Elephant Bookmark

I have previously made a butterfly bookmark designed by Grzegorz Bubniak. And today, I tried out his elephant bookmark, which clearly shows an elephant's head. It is quite easy to make out the ears, trunk and tusks. I like the...

Masu Box

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you would know that I love making boxes :) And the easiest boxes to make are masu boxes. Masu boxes are actually traditional Japanese wooden, square boxes that were used to measure rice. The...

An Origami Summer

I have been thinking of trying out an origami composition which is an assembly of various origami, around a common theme. The composition that I worked on was a beach with boats and houses along the beach and here is what I finally...

Square Spiral Box

I love folding spirals and I think the queen of origami spirals would be Tomoko Fuse! So since it has been a long time since I folded boxes with spirals, I tried out this little 4-sided box, from her book 'Let's Fold Spirals'....