Volumetric paper bow

A voluminous bow made from paper with your own hands will be useful when decorating gifts - it will give the packaging an unusual, original look and will serve as an addition to cards and envelopes.

paper bow


The technique is quite simple, similar to origami. The only difference is that some cuts will be required in some places. The entire manufacturing procedure will take no more than twenty minutes; all you need from materials is a sheet of paper.
Take a square of paper with a beautiful front side. If you have ordinary colored paper, but want something interesting, you can add a pattern - print the required design on an A4 sheet of paper and cut out a square of the required size. I took a side length of 19 cm and got a fairly large bow, measuring 11 cm by 13 cm. If you want it smaller, then cut out a smaller square.

Volumetric paper bow


Place the sheet with the wrong side up.

paper


We bend it in half, right side inward, unfold it back, turn it 90 degrees and bend it in the same way. We get two folds.

back side


Now we unfold it again and bend it diagonally, in the other direction. Let's straighten it out.

bend four parts


We fold such a figure (those who have already made similar models from paper before probably recognized the basic shape of origami “double square”).

bend diagonally


We arrange it in the form of a diamond and bend the upper triangle down.

fold


Expand the sheet to its original state.

bend it


We make folds in the center to form a square.

unfold


We bend the sides, flatten them and get this shape.

sheet


We bend the top parts.

paper bow


Turn it over and fold it in the same way.

paper bow


We begin to unbend the structure.

paper bow


Carefully unwrap it by pulling the ends. If everything is done correctly, there should be a small square in the center of the sheet. The figurine already somewhat resembles a bow.

paper bow


Turn over to work with the wrong side. We make cuts with scissors along the lines drawn in the photo - 4 cuts in total.

paper bow

paper bow


We bend the upper part downwards.

cut


On the left and right we bend the triangles to the horizontal fold line.

paper bow


At the central part we bend two triangles exactly as shown in the photo.

paper bow


Cut along the fold line in the middle.

paper bow


We bend the two parts so that the bow has beautiful and proportional ends.

paper bow


Turn it over.

take off the wings


All that remains is to bend the right and left triangle towards the middle, and the voluminous paper bow is ready!

take off the wings


No glue is required here. We made an elegant decoration for the holiday with our own hands. You can leave it voluminous, or you can flatten it. It looks beautiful if you glue rhinestones and sequins to the middle.

paper bow
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  1. Zhenya
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