Apparently the paper becomes silkier after being spray painted. The paper used here is regular kami paper that has been spray painted. The colours here are very different from what we’ve seen so far. Image source: Designed and Folded by Maria Sinayskaya I really love the design and colours used here. Here’s another absolutely beautiful looking kusudama. Image source: Designed and Folded by Natalia Romanenko If every unit was the same colour it definitely wouldn’t have the same effect. I really like the pattern here and how it looks when you use two colours for the paper. Image source: Hortensia Kusudama, Designed and Folded by Maria Sinayskaya Here’s a very pretty flowery looking kusudama. Image source: Braganza Crown (variation), Designed and Folded by Natalia Romanenko I really like designs that have holes in them kind of like what you see here. Image source: Flora, Designed and Folded by Masha Athanasiadi It almost reminds me of a cabbage… It’s folded from 30 7 cm x 7 cm squares of paper. Here’s another great flowery looking kusudama. Image source: Curved, Designed and Folded by Ekaterina Lukasheva It’s also folded with regular Tant paper. It’s made out of 30 units and there’s no glue or tape used here. Here’s another really pretty and kind of tasty looking one. Image source: Inspiration, Designed and Folded by Christine Blasek Here’s a very different looking kusudama with some interesting shapes and curls. This one isn’t too complex but I really like the shapes here and also the colours. Image source: Nerium and Tri-Blossom, Designed and Folded by Ekaterina Lukashevaĭiagrams available in Modular Origami Kaleidoscope Image source: Karoo Kusudama, Designed and Folded by Maria Sinayskaya I also really like the metallic colours used here. This next image is a great example of how you can take a basic design and make it much larger and more complex with more units.
This one is folded from 90 separate units into an origami ball! Image source: Hoya Kusudama, Designed and Folded by Natalia Romanenko Image source: Maiko var, Designed and Folded by Masha AthanasiadiĪ lot of kusudamas have a flowery look to them. Lots of designs like this one curve the paper for an elegant look. You don’t always have to use straight edges either. Image source: Designed and Folded by Ekaterina Lukasheva This one is made from 30 individual units and there’s no glue or tape. The red and silver colours in this design are awesome. Image source: Little Turtle, Designed by Tomoko Fuse and Folded by Rainer Bergĭiagrams available in Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations Here’s another great little model that almost resembles a turtle. Image source: Designed and Folded by Maria Sinayskayaīasic instructions for the units are available here The colours of the paper you use have a huge impact. Image source: Sierpinski Triangles, Designed and Folded by Andrey Ermakov It’s folded from 24 separate units and the designs are fantastic. This is a very unique kusudama design because you don’t normally see this much detail on the faces of the shapes. Image source: Caliope, Designed and Folded by Ekaterina Lukasheva There’s no glue, tape or anything like that here. It’s folded using some of Peter Keller’s excellent paper.
Our first kusudama for this post is by Ekaterina Lukasheva who is definitely one of the top kusudama designers out there. Because kusudamas are made from multiple units you can use different coloured paper for some absolutely beautiful results and patterns. You often see kusudamas hanging from a string and a lot of them have fancy tassels hanging from the bottom as well. However if you’re making a kusudama to display and you want to use a bit of tape or glue to make sure it doesn’t fall apart we won’t judge you. A lot of kusudama designs are made in such a way that all the pieces will fit together strongly and you won’t even need glue. If you’re an origami purist then you make kusudamas without any sort of glue, tape or string to hold the units together. They were originally used for incense and potpourri which I guess is where the name comes from. The word “kusudama” literally means “Medicine Ball” when translated from Japanese. Kusudamas are modular origami models where multiple units are fit together to form a ball-like shape.
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