Origami Mandala: A Tutorial

[@zoeysweetie1]

Your work is so beautifully done! Please keep the tutorials coming. Thank you so much

[@origami.by.e9415]

Thank you @@zoeysweetie1 🤗 I have tutorial ideas to make in the future but no time at the moment. Definitely more to come eventually

[@sallyhall8384]

I thought that your instructions were spot on!! This was really fun and turned out beautiful!! Keep your tutorials coming!!!

[@poomuenchen]

Great work and clear instructions in the tutorial. The work looks deceptively simpler , but as you work on it one can see the intricacies. The instructions help a lot . Thank you. And like others have pointed beautiful nail paint as well 🤘

[@origami.by.e9415]

Thanks 😁

[@Kai-fp3kd]

Brilliant! And LOVE the nails!! Thank you!

[@zoeysweetie1]

Absolutely wonderful!! I’ve wanted to do tessellations for years….thank you thank you!! ❤️

[@origami.by.e9415]

Thank you 😊 Check out my earlier videos and my Instagram for more tessellation ideas 👍

[@inaciocwb]

I was waiting this introductions so much!! Thanks a lot!!

[@analydiasilva8441]

I was expecting your video anxiously because It's so hard to explain and I wanted to have instructions to suggest to everyone! Great work! The instructions are very clear and the video has the usual good quality! And your nails rocked!!

[@origami.by.e9415]

Thanks Ana! It is not an easy one to explain and I just hoped I would make it easy enough to follow. I completely forgot I was going to do a tutorial when I painted my nails on the weekend! A nice touch 😂

[@qikama]

@@origami.by.e9415 gorgeous nail polish, and fantastic tutorial!

[@misskate2012]

It works!! I’m so happy it worked!! Thanks for the great tutorial!!

[@origami.by.e9415]

I am happy to hear you got it!!

[@shefakartar]

this is so cool Mr. E!!!

[@rohansreeram5374]

Thanks for the tutorial! Also, nice nails :)

[@felicespliegues478]

¡Hermosa figura! Muy bien explicado los dobleces. Muchas gracias por compartir.

[@origamiorigami2510]

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[@deborahdoesscrap]

WOW, that was a marathon. I folded the grid in the morning and then took a lunch break. I have trouble with grid folding at least in part. I can get very even horizontal and vertical lines but I struggle with the diagonals. I have tried a lot of different ways and nothing has worked well for me. I am 68 and wear bifocals so I use a light box and that works great for the horizontal and vertical but my technique for the diagonals sucks. Anyway, after lunch I started on the folds. The initial collapse was easy as I have done it many times before. I then did the second collapse and had paused the video to do all four sides and then when I turned the video back on I had to go make the correction on the center. The rest of the collapse was easy except one of my four corner 2 squares wide grids, I call them arrows since they look like they are pointing to me, did not want to collapse. I finally pulled that whole corner out and refolded and eventually got it to go. Not sure it is right underneath but everything ended up in the right places so that is a win for me. The whole collapse and doing the diagonals and finishing took about 4 hours with breaks to use the restroom, eat and bang my head on the wall. Except for the paper looking a little overworked, it turned out great. I really love it and will tackle another one tomorrow and see if I can neaten it up. I have been off Instagram for about a month as I needed to take a social media break but I have spent the last 3 days folding from your channel and I have managed to do four of the models. The fifth one, which is the hydrangea on a bed of clovers is still not coming together right for me. I think I have a block against it. I have folded 5 of them up to the point I have trouble and now tomorrow I am going to tackle finishing that one. I have folded a lot of basic hydrangeas and clovers and have worked on just playing with the different folds so I feel that has really helped me be able to fold some of the models that you have demonstrated. I would say this was a fairly hard one so you are definitely right to caution someone who hasn't folded a lot of basic tessellations. This would be super frustrating for them. Hell, it was frustrating for me LOL!! Thank you so much for taking the time to demonstrate this and I will post and credit on Instagram as soon as I finish the second one and it hopefully is better than the first. If it wasn't so late at night here in the USA, I would fold it again right now as I learn better if I do it repetitively a couple of times but hopefully I won't forget the whole thing before morning. Thank you again. Deborah

[@gamblingduck7057]

been tryin to figure this out for weeks 🙏🙏

[@theresa5114]

That looks gorgeous - and with beloved hydrangea-moves 🎉 By the way: You did *64* divisions??!!!! That's just insane. Na, I don't even want to know, if you did that tiny treasure with just a 15 x 15 square or not. I'm utterly speachless! Fortunately, there where no nightmares of endless messy folding with sweaty hands after watching your tutorial (or rather the 64 divisions-statement). 😳👍

[@origami.by.e9415]

@@theresa5114 Thank you! This version thankfully only needs 32 divisions! But then, of course, I also fold these out of 7.5cm squares 😂

[@theresa5114]

@@origami.by.e9415 Pfff, 🤣 I can Imagine you sitting with magnifier spectacles, a set square, pencil lead (lead pencil lead?/lead? Ähh) with 10^ - 8 mm and other tools drawing exact lines on the paper and folding it.

[@origami.by.e9415]

@@theresa5114 😂 for this, I only use a square of paper and my fingers!

[@ASDiyCrafts]

*Very beautiful ❤️👍+1 see you soon 😊*

[@eliobigando]

very beautiful , what type of paper did you used?

[@origami.by.e9415]

Thank you It is Harmony print from Grimmhobby. Comes in 7.5cm and 15cm squares and is excellent quality

[@heyjupiter09]

is this initial collapse the method you refer to in your most recent instagram photo's comments; for making the central region be an intersection of four clover tiles rather than the single tile?

[@heyjupiter09]

and i derp while i derp: i folded most of this on a 16x16 grid with 32 diagonals accidentally and only realized i needed the 32 near the end of the process. but while rewatching with an appropriately gridded square i noticed that you explicitly mentioned this was the same collapse as the 2x2 hydrangea/clover tiles, very handily preempting my thusly dumb question. thank you again for all your great work on these fujimoto tessellations and variations; i plan to post some photos to instagram of most or all of your exemplary models for which you've provided tutorials (this is one of the last ones for me to complete!)

[@cheenusona]

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