The diagrams I’ve made for Shuzo Fujimoto’s Square Wrap had a convoluted beginning.
Some years ago, I chanced upon a YouTube video from 2015 for a pentagonal letterfold. This “anonymous” creation became one of my favorite models. In June, I decided it would be a good design to share in The Fold, if I could discover the creator. In the course of my search, Paula Versnik and Michel Grand directed me to hand-drawn diagrams of the model in Shuzo Fujimoto’s “Twist Origami 2,” first published in 1983. Fujimoto indicated that the author is unknown.
I will continue the story of the provenance of the Pentagonal Wrap in a future installment, but what delighted me was that on the same pages as the pentagonal version, Fujimoto had sketched diagrams for wraps of four, six, seven and eight sides — all drawn in a somewhat cryptic style.
I decided to create easy-to-follow diagrams for all the wraps, the first of which is published here. (Fujimoto died in 2015, and his son, Hitoshi, has given me permission to make these instructions available.)
I hope you enjoy this series.
Editor’s note: John Cunliffe published his version of the Square Wrap in the December 1984 British Origami magazine (number 109). It diverges in several points from Fujimoto’s drawings. My thanks to Michel Grand for pointing out this earlier publication.
Comments
The paper is beautiful! Is it your design?
Not mine, this time! It is from a package of Japanese woodblock-print origami paper that I purchased online from Hiromi Paper (https://hiromipaper.com/products/woodblock-print-origami). There sell two packs of assorted prints. The sheets are crisp and heavier than kami. Hiromi is a good resource for papers and tools from Japan. I especially like their inkjet-printable washi.