2013 by Ching-Yu Hung

Simplified Kawasaki Rose

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Diagramed March 2004 by Ching-Yu Hung, revised January 2013. I bought a rose kit from an oriental gift shop in Plano. Its basically 4 red/green papers with folding instruction in Korean. I dont read Korean at all, so I followed the diagrams to figure it out. My procedure is simplified from the instruction, said designed by Heo Sook-Kyoung on the pack. I think it should be called a Kawasaki Rose variation, only much simpler. Start with a square piece of paper with the same color on both sides. To learn I would use 4 or bigger paper. About 2 square I can fold all right, but the smaller the more difficult. About 8 paper would make it life size. Legend: Mountain fold Valley fold 1 Make the following crease lines, with mountains as the center +, and parallel valleys, one on each side. Also fold the diagonals. The depth of mountain should be about 1/7 to 1/6 of the half width of the paper. The exact proportion is not critical, but does affect the shape of the rose; taller mountain makes short-and-tubby rose, shorter mountain makes tall-and-thin rose. The 4 depths should be identical though; use the diagonal lines to help align them.

2 Temporarily fold the paper by half horizontally then vertically, into quarter size. Crease diagonally across the small square near the center of paper.

3 Open it up, then refold the diamond-shaped crease lines so that they all become mountain folds. The crease lines should now look like this:

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4 Hold up the paper, fold along the crease lines, and push the paper together to allow A and B points (above) meet and form the following shape:

7 From each of the 4 corners of center-diamond, mountaincrease at 22.5-degree down, then 45-degree down, as shown. The 45-degree creases should be parallel to the diagonal creases from #1.

5 Push the front vertical flap in the middle to the right. Push the back-side counterpart to the left. Fold down the left-half of top flap.

8 Now the fun part. Turn the paper over. Reinforce the 4 horizontal/vertical mountain folds as well as the 4 22.5/45-degree diagonal valley folds, and roll the 4 petals around the center. The design should form a tube.

6 Open up the back flap so you have a pin-wheel like design in the center of square. Note that the center diamond formed in #2 is turned 90 degrees counterclockwise. You can also turn the center diamon 90 degrees clockwise; I just found counter-clockwise easier to crease in #7, and I suspect for left-handed people, clockwise is easier.

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To continue, there are 3 options: 9a (locked-in flat bottom, original rose-kit instruction) To have a more refined looking bottom, you can use this alternate lock. Turn the design bottom-side up. Take one of the 4 flaps and fold down into of the tube to form part of the rose bottom, following the diagonals (from #1) to conform to the flap on its left.

Tuck the remaining triangular flap into the bottom, and were done with the bottom.

Turn the design 90-degree counter clockwise and fold the next flap, again forming part of the bottom and conforming to the flap on its left. Do the same for rest of the flaps.

Turn it over and curl the 4 petals with chop stick or toothpick, and were done with 9a.

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9b (simple lock) If you dont worry about how it looks from the bottom, you can simply fold in the bottom part of the tube inside, flat against tube wall. 9a produces a closed bottom, except for a small hole in the middle, but its difficult to get a truly flat bottom; mine usually come out wobbled. With 9b, the bottom is open, but its easier to get it to stand right. I would choose this to teach kids.

Then, turn it over the curl the petals, like 9a. 9c (add 4 outer petals; I like this the best) Who would say no to more petals? Fold the 4 downward flaps up, one at a time, to add 4 outer petals.

Tuck the last fold-up flap underneath the first one, loosely locking them in.

Turn it over, and you should see 4 obtuse triangle protrusions. Fold them down and into the tube; this makes the bottom flat and strengthens the lock.

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Curl down the 4 outer petals first, then the 4 inner/upper petals, careful to not tear the paper. Now we are done with 9c.

All 3 variations side-by-side; you cannot really tell the difference between the first 2.

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