MODEL INFO
⭐ Level: Medium
🟨 Paper size: 10 x 10 cm, 4 x 4 inches
🗒 Paper Type: Origami Paper
✅ Model size (diameter): 10 cm, 4 inches
Here is an easy step-by-step tutorial on creating a traditional kusudama model, which you can use as a Christmas Tree Decoration 🎄.
In pre-modern Japan, it was customary to suspend a ball of sweet-smelling herbs above the bed of a sick person. These hanging balls, called kusudama, were sometimes used as charms to ward off sickness. Nowadays, they are used for their decorative qualities. This tutorial is about making a traditional origami version (first carried in the Nippon Origami Association’s journal Origami, April 1978). One ball is constructed from thirty-six squares of paper: these may be all the same colour or two or three matching colours to suit your taste. Having made one ball, you may care to make a second and then a third, perhaps in different sizes, and suspend them above each other on the same thread. The Japanese like to attach paper or silk cord streamers beneath them to catch the breeze.