How to make kirigami postcards?

The art of kirigami was born relatively recently: in 1980, a Japanese architect Masahito Chatani for the first time I began to work with Kirigami. Kirigami can be flat and voluminous. Flat kirigami - this, for example, is a familiar snowflake, cut from paper, as well as other similar works. Volumetric Kirigami in something similar to pop-up cards, but unlike the latter, Kirigami makes postcards usually from one sheet of paper.

To create kirigami postcards, it is necessary on a sheet of paper or thin cardboardmake special cuts, and then add this sheet in a special way. There are many Kirigami schemes that cut and fold paper. Read these schemes is quite simple: on solid lines it is necessary to make cuts, and on the dotted lines or dashed lines - folds. Kirigami postcards can be made according to existing schemes, and you can also develop your own.

To get simple cards from Kirigami, it is enough to take a sheet of paper of suitable size, small scissors, a pencil and a ruler, as well as a clamp for fixing paper in the specified position. According to the chosen scheme, cuts and necessary folding are performed on a piece of paper.

The work received can be glued on a sufficiently dense basis. Particularly interesting are Kirigami postcards,if the base differs in color from the paper on which the pattern is made. Kirigami postcards can also be multicolored, thereby opening even greater scope for creativity.

Make Kirigami postcards can be almost any pattern, but very popular among fans of kirigami schemes from the author's book of this technique, Masahiro Chatani. Here are a couple of examples of such schemes:

To produce in the technique kirigami it is possible to post cards not only from one sheet of paper, but also postcards from several sheets. For example, it is easy and fast to do volume flowers from paper for a beautiful postcard in Kirigami technique. To do this, you only need 5 sheets of white or colored A4 paper, glue and scissors.

It is necessary to fold 4 of 5 sheets of paper in half in cross-section, and then cut each ofthem into two parts. Each half of the sheet must be folded up again (crosswise), and then again in half (again across). Now you need to turn one corner of the sheet to the fold line, then turn the sheet and bend the corner to the fold line from the other side.

Do not turn the sheet, bend the corner in the opposite direction (ie, in the direction from the fold line). Then with scissors you need Cut off the top of the folded sheet, giving the workpiece the shape of a petal. After unfolding the workpiece should receiveflower of 8 petals. One of the petals must be cut, and then using a small amount of glue to connect the two adjacent to the carved petals (the petals are superimposed on each other). It turned out a cone-shaped flower of 6 petals. Similarly, you need to make the remaining half of the paper 6 more flowers (the last, the eighth half is not needed).

Each of the prepared colors must be folded in half,. Then, on each of the three petals,apply a little glue and start to gradually glue the flowers together. On the two extreme petals of the first flower, two more flowers are superimposed on their extreme petals. The fourth flower is attached to the central petal of the first and also to the extreme left and right right petals of the second and third flowers.

Now on the extreme petals of the fourth flower on each side, and also on the petals of the second and third flowers are fastened the fifth and sixth flowers. The seventh flower is adhered similarlythe fourth. Now the workpiece can be glued to the remaining fifth sheet. The sheet is folded in half, on one side is placed a workpiece. On the central petal it is necessary to put a little glue and then to press a preparation by the top half of sheet. Similarly, glue the workpiece to the second half. The postcard is ready!