Difficulty: 4
Paper Type: Square, not easily worn.
Sheets: 1
Cuts/Glue: No
Time: 15 minutes
Source: Another student taught me this one.
Instructions:
The way I learned how to make the original Kawasaki rose can be found below. I also found another set of instructions for making a slightly modified version of this model as well.
1. Start with a square piece of paper. (This one already has one diagonal crease in it because I made it out of a piece of regular printer paper.)
2. Fold and unfold along the diagonals. Precrease the paper so it resembles a 16 by 16 grid. (This can also be approximated by an 8x8 grid, but I recommend using the 16x16 until you can fold the rose from memory.) I strongly suggest that you avoid simply folding the paper in half a bunch of times - your paper will drift and you won't get a good-looking grid. Instead, take the time to make each individual fold - it will pay off in the end.
3. Locate the 4x4 square in the corner of the paper and fold the farthest corner from the center up to the closest corner to the center. Repeat for the other three corners.
4a. (This step is optional, but I HIGHLY reccommend you do it if you're just learning to make the rose.) Flip the paper over, and make the marks you see in the picture on the corresponding parts of your paper. Take special note of where everything is located in the grid system.
4b. A close-up of one of the corners. Note that there is a red triangle, an orange triangle (with one side shaded), and several black lines.
5. Flip the paper over and make a water bomb base with the paper, so that the flaps you folded over in step 3 are on the outside of the base.
6. Flatten the base and arrange it with the closed end pointing towards you. (I think this shape looks like a diamond, so I'll be referring to it as such.)
7a. You'll be making a fold along the dotted line, making the two purple dots touch each other. Note that the fold will not extend completely to the end of the diamond.
7b. Make the fold. Note how only one layer is involved in the fold. Unfold it. Do NOT crease in the other direction.
8. Take the tab that you just folded and flip it over to the other side of the diamond. Move one of the bottom layers to the other side as well so that you have an even balance of two tabs on each side of the diamond.
9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 for the other three tabs.
10a. Open up the diamond slightly and place it on the table as in the picture. We will be doing a twist fold.
10b. Carefully flatten out the paper, allowing the creases you made in steps 7 - 9 to create a windmill-like structure.
10c. After the paper has been flattened, carefully squash down the point in the center to get a square. (Gently tugging on opposite edges of the "X" may help you to get started.)
11. Flip the paper over.
12a. Take the paper by its edge and slightly unfold part of the windmill structure. We will be making a mountain fold along the line shared by the red and orange triangles. The red triangle will end up being behind the shaded half of the orange triangle.
12b. During the fold.
12c. The resulting fold without my hand in the way. Note where the bottom of the orange triangle is.
13. Make a valley fold along the bottom (widest part) of the orange triangle.
14a. Puff out part of the paper after you make the fold in order to make the area you're folding look kind of like a plateau. See how the long black line along the side that was crooked in step 13 is straight now?
14b. Another view from the other side. Note where the short black line is.
15. Mountain fold along the short black line we found in the previous step.
16a. Turn the model so you can see the other side of the fold. Locate the final black line.
16b. Valley fold along the black line.
17. Do the same thing to the other three corners - when you're working on a corner, it's okay if the other corners unfold a little bit.
18. Select one of the corners and refold it up to step 14 if it has unfolded at all. Note where the yellow line is. (Don't freak out if you don't have it drawn on your paper - I just drew it in for this step.)
19. Valley fold along the yellow line, reinforcing the crease. Unfold again.
20. Move to the corner to the right of the one you were just working on, and refold it up to step 16.
21. Refold the fold you enforced in step 19. It will overlap part of the other corner. Take note of where the purple line is.
22a. Mountain fold along the purple line located in the last step. This will lock the two corners in place.
22b. I usually like to put a paperclip on this newly formed tab to prevent it from unfolding while I'm working on other areas of the rose.
23. Do the same thing to all the other corners of the rose. You will form four tabs total. The fourth one is definitely the most difficult but not impossible. If you're using paperclips to take the tabs in place, you may have to remove some of them in order to allow the paper to relax a bit.
24. The underside of the rose. Look how ugly it is! This isn't how it should look.
25. Gently reform the square at the bottom of the rose. This is the square that you squashed down in step 10c. This step will take a lot of patience and paper-tweaking, but is not impossible.
26. Gently tweak the top side of the rose as well to get it as symmetrical as you can.
27. Turn back to the bottom side of the rose, and remove the paperclip on one of your tabs. Fold down the tab.
28. Remove the paper clip on the next tab and fold that down...
29. And do the same for the third tab.
30a. Remove the clip on the last tab and fold it down, inserting it under the first tab that you folded down.
30b. I like to reinforce the bottom with paperclips so it doesn't come undone while I'm working on the top of the rose, but it isn't necessary.
31. The top side of the rose.
32. Gently pull out and down on the tabs containing the orange squares. This will not follow a premade crease line nor should it be completely made into a fold.
Final step - Do the same for the inner petals, remove any extra paperclips, and you'll have yourself a finished rose. Congratulations!
