Okay, hello again. What we are going to make this time is something like this, it's not really a model like an animal or a flower or something, it's just a rather extraordinary flexible shape that can expand and compress, looks very beautiful in the light and you can make many forms out of it, but we are not going to make this in the time we have, it's too complicated, what we are doing is a simpler version which is this, which is divided into eight parts. So, we will make this first and if you can make that, you can make the brown one yourself later.
So, we need some paper. What I am going to do is to fold into eight equal parts. So, first of all fold in half and open, to the fold the side to the center line, spin it around, do the same on the other side, I meant to turn this over so we don't see the folds and now this edge to bring it to the middle but to let the bottom flap flip-out, fold it to the middle and then this edge of the paper, fold that also to the middle, spin it around and do the same thing again. To fold the edge to the middle but let the underneath layer flip to the top, there it is and then fold to the center line and that center line will now fold. So magically you folded into eight equal parts.
So now what we need to do is to fold all of the valleys and the mountains in the opposite direction. So turn the paper over, my first fold here is a mountain but I need to refold it as a valley. All the valleys fold them as mountains, all the mountains fold them as valleys, so what this does that is to make every fold not have the preference as a mountain or a valley and there is a reason for this that you will see later. So, now the seven folds can fold in either direction. So here is our strip, from the end of the strip fold a 45 degree triangle. So having folded that from the end of the triangle, fold the strip down so the two folds are parallel and then continue that 45 degree folding pattern right along the strip. So all the folds are parallel and you are always folding triangles across the strip and again now as before fold all the valleys as mountains, fold all the mountains as valleys, every fold -- I think I have got eight, fold them in the opposite direction to the first time you have folded in and then open out to the square.
Okay, now can you see that you have a lots of sort of zigzags that go across the paper. So, now what we do is just to make - in order to make the pleats and just choose the zigzag in the middle, doesn't really matter which one you choose and start it here as a mountain fold, on the one next to it is a valley. So you are making a pair together. One is a mountain, the other is a valley and as you go across the paper, so you just need to help the paper working between your two hands, keeping it folded.
Now this is quite difficult to teach I have realized over the years and there is a kind of knack to it that when you understand what to do is not actually very difficult you just need to be patient and learn how to do it, to crush the paper between your fingers, to make one mountain zigzag and one valley zigzag and eventually you get to the other end and then you can squash everything flat and make it strong again. So this is one of the pairs of mountains and valleys that you need to make. So to complete the pink one you need to make as many pairs as you need to make, up and down so eventually get to the top and bottom edges.
So this is quite a simple one here and when you can make that quite well then you can try to divide the paper not into eight but into sixteen, this is into sixteen going across and then do the same thing again. So with some more pleats, you get more flexibility and more detail and after sixteen you can make them as big as you like. There are many things you can make with this, many interesting shapes and this is the start of the whole genre of folding that you might try at a later time. So thank you very much.
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