![]() Here’s another really excellent hollowed out kind of design. Image source: ‘Buckie’ Type Truncated Octahedron, Designed and Folded by Tomoaki Yano Tomoaki Yano has a very unique style when it comes to kusudamas with lots of delicious looking swirl shapes. Image source: Metal Crystal, Designed by Ekaterina Lukasheva and Folded by Akira Nguyen It’s definitely more spikey looking than your average kusudama and that’s pretty cool. Next we have another very unique design that almost looks like it could be an earring or something like that. Designed and Folded by Ekaterina Lukasheva This may even be my all-time favourite kusudama. It looks like some kind of exotic beautiful star stone. It’s folded using 12 units and the paper was hand dyed. Image source: Flipper, Designed by Masha Athanasiadi and folded by uschi mitzkat “Flipper” seems like a very appropriate name for this next one which looks quite aquatic and almost marble like. Image source: Designed and Folded by Natalia Romanenko I’m loving pretty much everything about this next one, especially the little curls along the edges. This one uses 102 units all joined together! Image source: Star Holes Designed by Francesco Mancini and Vallota Designed by Tanya Vysochina all Folded by Valentina Minayeva Here’s another really complex one that I believe is actually 2 kusudamas combined into one. Image source: Embellished Sonobe, Designed and Folded by Peter Keller ![]() Peter Keller took some very common sonobe units and a very common kusudama shape and gave it a bit of a twist here to make it look like a flower opening. Image source: Sonora Kusudama, Designed and Folded by Uniya Filonova Almost makes me think of an orange creamsicle. Here’s another excellent design with a fantastic choice of colours and patterns on the paper. Image source: Sarmatia Kusudama, Designed and Folded by Byriah Loper Despite how crazy this looks it’s really just 30 units joined together like most other kusudamas. ![]() Video instructions available from Happy Folding on YouTubeīyriah Loper is famous for some pretty complex origami so it’s not a surprise that he’s designed some very complex looking kusudamas. Image source: Undina Kusudama, Designed and Folded by Maria Sinayskaya Both of these are the same model but one is more curved and flowery which gives it a completely different look. Kusudamas often look solid and packed together but some can be quite open and more “frame-like” and delicate I guess just like these next two models. Image source: Star Planet Designed by Natalia Romanenko and Bitterrot Stars Designed by Ekaterina Lukasheva, Both Folded by MiharaMiyo Monterivas Here’s an absolutely beautiful fall-themed kusudama plus some very nice stars that go quite well with it. Image source: Hymenocallis, Designed and Folded by Masha Athanasiadi Do a quick Google Image search for “spider lily” or “Hymenocallis” and you’ll definitely see the resemblance. This next model is designed after a type of flower called a spider lily. Image source: Frost Crystals, Designed and Folded by Natalia Romanenko The name of this model is “Frost Crystals” but if you use bright warmer colours it’s got a completely different feel. Image source: Lady Feona, Designed by Uniya Filonova and Folded by Valentina MinayevaĮverything about this next one is so bright and happy. This particular model is folded using 60 units, 30 of one size and 30 of another. Here’s something a bit more flowery and complex. Image source: Designed and Folded by Maria Sinayskaya ![]() The overall shape is great but it looks especially awesome with that subtle rose and gold coloured paper. Here’s an absolutely gorgeous kusudama folded using 30 units. The mix of the white and blue in the overall design is quite nice. This is folded from 30 units using just regular blue on one side, white on the other side kami paper. So in this post we’re going to take another look at some wonderfully delightful kusudamas.įirst up is this blue and white one. Kusudamas always look beautiful and you can do some very neat things depending on the colours and patterns of the paper you use to fold the units. ![]() Some of the more complex kusudamas though can have a lot more units, maybe even 100+! These models typically use 30 individually folded units joined together without the use of tape or glue. The name kusudama translates to something like “Medicine Ball” in Japanese. Kusudamas are always a great topic and some of the people I follow create a lot of these!Ī kusudama for those not familiar with the term is a modular papercraft model in the shape of a ball. ![]()
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