Kotobuki Tsuru Variation Houou Variation Tsuru Variation
  1. Kotobuki Tsuru (Celebration Crane)
  2. Houou (Pheonix)
  3. Tsuru (Crane)

This project was a study on curved folding. No scoring (laser or hand) was used. Instead, curves were formed by creasing, then smoothing out bumps with a stylus (the tip of my mechanical pencil).

The Tsuru is not traditional. In order to create enough layers to shape, I made a 30 degree version of the traditional crane and added a diagonal graft.

Houou and Kotobuki Tsuru are more or less folded from traditional bases.

All three birds are folded from tissue foil.

Originally posted on 17 Aug 2019 at: https://ogelsir.blogspot.com/2019/08/three-variations-on-crane.html