Category: 3D shapes

Mariët from Studio ML shares photos of how to make these paper balls and a template.

Video instructions and measurements for how to make these orbs from Tetra Pak by Luz Mireya Martinez Arcos

Some information about the background and naming of Triskele Globes by Manja from Hattifant.

I recorded the findings of Paula Beardell Krieg about these structures (but not her instructions and template). There are a lot of links to other people who have made these and looked at the maths involved.

A number of ways kaleidocycles can be made from fabric, wool and beads.

Interactive 3D textile art: a cyclic tetrahedron made from fabric, textile paint, quilted and beaded… by Sue Duffy.

Machine embroidered designs by Carol at AnnTheGran.

Make a 3D poinsettia/ Christmas star out of wrapping paper. Video by Lotti.

Darcy Turner shows how the Newspaper Rolling Machine can make solid sticks out of 5 sheets of newspaper and wallpaper paste. They can be cable tied together to make chairs strong enough to sit/stand on, other furniture and sculptures. The machines are available to buy or rent in London. Also – how he makes a chair out of the sticks.

% pointed star & How to score aluminium to eliminate rips and tears. Video by Dialed in DIY

Videos by Maphy Section from Indonesia. Instructions are incomplete, but enough to get started.

Amazing folded flowers made from folded used lottery tickets that Alexlockwood finds on the ground in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York.

I can’t pretend to understand much of the mathmatical basis of Windmill Loop – James Mallos has a blog packed with computer based weaving. Is interesting to see the basic 3 loops explained with different terminology. There is also different ideas on unit weaving/nexorades – weaving short elements together. If you know your vertices from your voxels it could be useful.

Mary is trying to understand the twist of windmill loop by drawing it out.

Examples by Pat Ashforth and Steve Plummer.
These cubes could be used as baubles or gift wrap.

Tutorial by Guillaume Riesen showing how to make a flexagon out of fabric. Comforting and addictive fiddling – geometry in motion! Includes another set of instructions by a quilter,

A couple of examples of a ‘planar net’ using windmill loop. Much of Alison’s work utilises hexagonal mesh structures and complex mathmatical forms. I was interested in her background of weaving with bamboo.

Text instructions by Anna Subritzky for these flax stars with a little of the background of the tradition. I’m interested to find out what I can substitute harakeke for, here in Europe.

Mary Crabb During has been taking part in Forces in Translation online event ‘Looping and….’ exploring the interface between basketry, mathematics and anthropology. using windmill loop she looked at topology, curvature of surfaces, and particular the fact that a doughnut has zero curvature.

Diagram instructions of 8 point star by Javier Caboblanco.

Photo instructions of how to make an origami 8 point star by Qunying

Instructions by Lois Walpole
Northern Europe, America, Scandinavia and Japan are the most commonly claimed locations for the origin of these decorations.

Bold bottle base spheres by Miriam Mitsuko Utsumi.

A collection of a few sources of instructions for making the modular units to create truncated Dodecahedrons and Icosahedrons.

Simple woven dodecahedron with rubber ball inside.
Instructions by Waldemar Sha

A good example of shapes that can be made with Windmill Loop weaving.
Made by Hilda Rogers

Truncated cube using 4 way windmill loop weave. Made from inner tube loops.
by Axolotl01

A truncated icosahedron made of interlocking pentagons and hexagons.
by Tom Tucker

Using the 3 way loop weaving to make 5 and 6 sided shapes – and the characteristics these have.
Innertube Loop Creations by Idea63