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CRANE’S EGG

designed by Richard L. Alexander

The original three-piece triangular box attributed to Molly Kahn is rich with possibilities, and even our youngest folders enjoy coming up with new combinations of patterns, indentations, and decorative treatments of the flaps to create festive ornaments, clever gift packages, and even tiny earrings. This version takes advantage of decorative folds on the extra front flap, as well as an indented shelf suitable for nesting a precious object. The angularity of the traditional Japanese crane made me immediately think that the egg must have been quite a special form, and probably angular too!

1. Begin with the minor color side facing up. Valley-fold in half diagonally, bottom corner to top.

2. Valley-fold in half, Bottom right corner to bottom left.

3. Unfold, bottom back corner to the right.

4. Valley-fold the top corner of the top layer down to the middle of the bottom edge.

5. Valley-fold the left and right corners of the top layer down, forming two triangular flaps that meet in the middle of the top layer, and with the bottom edges parallel to the bottommost folded edge.

6. Valley-fold the bottom corner up, level with the horizontal edges of the triangular flaps.

7. Turn the paper over, left to right.

8. Valley-fold the bottom corners to meet at the top corner.

9. Valley-fold the right half over the left.

10. Loosely open the paper to the largest triangular shape.

11. Valley-fold the middle crease to close the paper into a triangular party hat shape. Make two more for a total of three units.

12. Each unit has two pockets and two tabs.

13. The tabs of one unit go into the pockets of another.

14. Three units properly connected make a decorative triangular gift box.

15. The completed Crane’s Egg.

16. To create a recess in the egg: after step 9, open the module slightly, then valley-fold the left or right square corner to the center crease. Unfold, then inside-reverse-fold the corner to hide it. Fold the same corner in the same way on the remaining pieces prior to assembly.