
Ich werde euch gleich mal zeigen, wie die gemacht werden.
Today I finished the last of my flying books. Finally I am through with sorting feathers. I think, next time when I see a goose or hen,your hear me screaming"Nooooo, this awful feathers!" I got my supply from cutting open a cushion and many of the feathers inside were broken or too tiny to be used for this project, so I had to sort through them. I sometimes also sorted them according to color or shape. At first that was fun - they are so soft to the touch, is was a good feeling pushing a hand into that cushion, pulling out handfuls of this tender feathers. But they just got everywhere. Yesterday evening when I got under a blanket at the tele, I noted some feathers on that, too. They crawl into the nose and make me sneeze, they get stuck in the fabric of my clothes, - they are awful and everywhere, and after today I'll have to do some serious vacuum cleaning here. Anyway, for sorting the feathers I used these paper boxes that you can see in the picture above, and today I am going to show you how to make them.
1. Get a square piece of paper / Als erstes brauchen wir ein quadratisches Stück Papier
If you don't have one at hand, you can easily make one, by folding the top of a piece of paper you have to the side, thus forming the diagonal of your paper, and cutting off the tail. You'll want to fold the diagonals anyway, so this is a good start.

rechtwinkliges Stück Papier so faltet, dass die obere Kante auf eine der seitlichen zu liegen kommt, und schneidet dann den Rest unten einfach weg. Die Falz, die man dann auf seinem Papier hat, ist eine der Diagonalen des Quadrats, und die wollen wir später sowieso falten.
Wer eine Schachtel mit Deckel möchte, braucht zwei etwas unterschiedlich große Stücke Papier. Ein kleineres Quadrat kann man leicht bekommen, indem man etwas weiter innen, senkrecht zu einer der kurzen Kanten des Dreiecks schneidet, die man bekommt, wenn man das Quadrat entlang seiner Diagonalen faltet. Klingt kompliziert, ist aber einfach, wie das folgende Bild zeigt:

2. Find the center of your square / Die Mitte des Quadrats finden
Das geht ganz einfach, indem man beide Diagonalen falten. Da wo sie sich schneiden, ist die Mitte.

3. Fold all the corners into the middle / alle Ecken zur Mitte falten
Now your paper should look like this:

4. Fold the corners to the further crossing / Die Ecken nochmal weiter nach innen falten
Wir wollen letztendlich das ganze Papier in lauter kleinere Quadrate einteilen. Jetzt erstmal alle Ecken nochmal nach innen falten, bis zu der Stelle, wo die Diagonale die weiter entferte neue Falz trifft:


5. Turn the paper around and fold the corners back to the nearest crossing / Das Papier wenden und die Ecken zur nächsten Überkreuzung von Faltlinien falten.

Now the paper is patterned evenly.
6. Last two folds parallel to the edges of the paper / die letzten beiden Faltungen sind parallel zu den Papierkanten

Dreh' das Papier wieder um. So sieht es fertig gefaltetet aus. Jetzt bauen wir endlich die Schachtel daraus.

7. The first two side walls / die ersten beiden Seitenwände
The bottom of the box is formed by the inner four squares, marked on the following picture:
Der Boden der Box besteht aus den inneren vier Quadraten, die ich hier markiert habe:

Choose two opposite sites of this square and put up the side walls as shown in the following pictures:


The small corners, that we folded back in step 5 come to rest over the marked bottom squares.
8. third wall fold / die dritte Wand wird aufgestellt

When you put up the third wall, make sure to fold the paper inwards like you can see in the upper photo. The fold is done along the fold that we made in step 6. To make sure the box is stable, press all edges firmly. The result should look like this:

Also nochmal langsam... I'll show it again:


Finished /Fertig

3 comments:
Yey Great tutorial, turns out this is the same box as was shown in my recent book called Paper Fold it.
Thanks for the pictures its easier to understand these projects with pictures isn't it.
Great Job
Billie :)
Err that last comment sounds like I wrote that book OOPS! It was written by Steve & Megumi Biddle.
Billie
Thanks Billie,
I am glad you like my first tutorial. I think highly of you as an educational writer, and it means much to me that you think it is good.
I was worried whether I described all the steps in sufficient clarity. But luckily this is a visual medium where I can easily add pictures which I hope made the whole thing easier to follow.
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