100 PIMA COTTON T SHIRTS

The top one is a sheet of thick-ish Hanji; it was a low-grade commercial
paper, definitely not intended for folding. It holds a crease about as
well as a T-shirt does, except the paper starts coming apart when you
handle it too much. I'm not using that again; I've heard of people using
Hanji before, but I'm guessing they used either a better grade of paper or
a lot of sizing.

The bottom two, however, worked much better; they're normal printer paper,
colored on one side with commercial watercolors. This process seems to
have another effect; somehow or another it changes the quality of the
paper, making it stiffer, making it keep a crease better, etc. I really
like the effect this has, and it's super cheap-- I used the
bottom-of-the-line kiddie watercolors that you can find in just about any
store. The photo doesn't really do the black one justice; it's really
cool, the curved surfaces got hidden by the shadows and the angle of the
tessellation. No worries, though, I'm working on another piece using this
idea and I'll post photos as soon as it's done.

For those of you keeping track, the red one is a logarithmic version of
Ben's Stacked Pleats model. I've been meaning to post it for awhile, but I
needed to refold it first-- my first version was really wrinkly and used
horrible paper (and coming from me, that really means something!)

The purple one up top is a development of a crossed box pleat, and used a
few partial squash folds, which are hard but fun. They're kind of like
that steps 27 and 28 in Lang's butterfly (origami zoo), but harder because
you have to do both sides at once. That wasn't fun at all with the paper I
was using, and there's a small tear that you can't see from here. But
those too should make an appearance in another tessellation before too
long.

hoodie! you can buy this thing online RIGHT NOW actually you can buy a lot of these shirts online, but i work for this publisher, so i'm considerably more aware of this one's availability. side note - these two figures aren't necessarily supposed to be anyone i know, but the bloody knee is a tribute to my friend nelly, who hurt her knee while i was visiting, over the time i drew this. again, ballpoint and printer paper. sheesh.

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