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TATO PURSE

traditional design

Our beginning students favor designs that are fun to fold, but also have a purpose. It helps them answer the question, “That was fun, now what do you do with it?” This design has probably been used since antiquity to hold coins or other small objects, because it works well with other materials, such as leather skins and stiff cloth, which were both used well before the development of paper making.

1. Begin with the major color side up. Valley-fold in half diagonally both ways, unfolding after each. Turn the paper over and rotate 45 degrees.

2. Valley-fold in half, edge to edge, both ways, unfolding after each. Rotate 45 degrees.

3. Use the mountain and valley creases to collapse the paper so that all four corners of the square are at the bottom, and that the layers are like a closed umbrella.

4. Notice the orientation of the paper in the diagram. Valley-fold the top right edge of the topmost triangular flap to the middle crease. Unfold.