Paper Crafts Research Articles

Pore Structure Modulation in Kirigamic Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework

Paper crafts, such as origami and kirigami, have become an interdisciplinary research theme transportable from art to science, and further to engineering. Kirigami‐inspired architectural design strategies allow the establishment of three‐dimensional (3D) mechanical linkages with unprecedented mechanical properties. Herein, we report a crystalline zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF), displaying folding mechanics based on a kirigami tessellation, originated from the double‐corrugation surface (DCS) pattern. Pressure‐ and guest‐induced responses demonstrate the kirigami mechanism of the ZIF, wherein imidazolate linkers act as hinges, controlling pore dimensionality, resembling the check valve‐adapted mechanical manifold. This discovery of the kirigami tessellation inside a flexible ZIF reveals foldable mechanics at the molecular level.

Pore Structure Modulation in Kirigamic Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework.

Paper crafts, such as origami and kirigami, have become an interdisciplinary research theme transportable from art to science, and further to engineering. Kirigami-inspired architectural design strategies allow the establishment of three-dimensional (3D) mechanical linkages with unprecedented mechanical properties. Herein, we report a crystalline zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF), displaying folding mechanics based on a kirigami tessellation, originated from the double-corrugation surface (DCS) pattern. Pressure- and guest-induced responses demonstrate the kirigami mechanism of the ZIF, wherein imidazolate linkers act as hinges, controlling pore dimensionality, resembling the check valve-adapted mechanical manifold. This discovery of the kirigami tessellation inside a flexible ZIF reveals foldable mechanics at the molecular level.

중국 초등 미술교육과 전통 민속문화 - 미술 교과서 내용 분석을 중심으로

This study examines educational contents of folk culture in elementary school art textbooks to increase understanding of China’s traditional folk culture education. China, as a multi-ethnic nation, has established a legal basis for the preservation and protection of traditional folk culture of ethnic groups and has implemented educational policies to promote these folk cultures. The following are the results of analysis of the illustrations included in the art textbooks for all grade levels. First, illustrations related to Chinese folk culture in the textbooks are 49 in total, making up 12% of the total textbook illustrations. Second, educational areas represented are relatively evenly divided between sculpting and molding, design application, and art appreciation and criticism. Third, folk culture of 17 ethnic groups from 14 different regions are introduced in the textbooks out of 56 ethnic groups recognized in China. Fourth, educational content related to folk culture consists of folk toys, handcrafted ornaments, embroidery, dyeing and weaving, paper crafts, folk architect, sculpture, shadow puppetry, lotus paintings, rubbing, traditional holidays and traditional clothing. However, the fact that more than 70% of the images are of folk toys and handcrafted items and that some illustrations were inserted merely to arouse curiosity are areas that would need to be worked on to better

Study on Manufacturing and Applicability of Natural Adhesive for Paper Craft Using Corn Starch

A natural adhesive of starch (corn) that can be used to make and repair paper crafts was manufactured. The purpose of this study was to explore a composition of an adhesive having maximum adhesive strength while controlling a catalyst, a reaction initiator, and an oxidizing agent added to an aqueous starch solution at room temperature. The best composition was when a 35% starch aqueous solution was used. The 2.0% NaOH aqueous solution was added to the 35% starch aqueous solution to adjust pH from 10.0 to 11.0, and 0.20 g NiSO4, 20.0 g NaOCl, 30.0 g of 30.0% NaOH solution, and 3.0 g of 1.0% sodium thiosulfate were sequentially added. In the last step, the 3.0% HCl aqueous solution was added to adjust the pH of the adhesive to 7.5, and the adhesive strength of the prepared adhesive was 213 kgf/㎠. It was stable at room temperature for more than 60 days without physical changes such as viscosity, phase separation, precipitation, etc. In addition, TVOC, HCHO, and heavy metals were not detected, and the excellent result was found in antibacterial and reversible tests. This adhesive is an excellent natural adhesive that can be easily used by the user and does not contain harmful substances. It was an adhesive that could maintain the reputation of traditional materials in addition to their production and preservation.

RemoteCoDe: Robotic Embodiment for Enhancing Peripheral Awareness in Remote Collaboration Tasks

Collaborative design activities are often centered around physical artifacts. Depending on the design activity, this can be the model of a building, paper crafts, carving artwork, or a new circuit to be debugged and evaluated. In a typical setting, collaborators are seated around a table and divide their attention between the design artifact under review, at least one laptop supporting measurements and information foraging, and of course their collaborators. Although these activities involve complex sets of tools and configurations, people can easily work together when they are present in the same space. This is because the physical presence of a partner affords peripheral awareness to inform where the partner's attention is and what they are doing. This peripheral awareness allows collaborators to coordinate actions and manage coupling to achieve a shared task. For example, it is quite easy to know when your partner switches their focus from a breadboard to you as a request to start a face to face discussion.

From Dirca to design: printmaking with leatherwood (Dirca mexicana) bark paper

ABSTRACT Washi is paper made by hand from the bark of native Japanese shrubs. Washi is a common medium used for printmaking and paper crafts. Artists who have studied nagashi-zuki, a sheet-forming method unique to washi, often import Japanese fibers because alternatives with similar properties have not been identified. We propose Dirca L. (leatherwood), a shrub endemic to North America, as a source of fibers with properties similar to those plants traditionally used to make washi. The thinness and strength of the leatherwood paper allows it to withstand repeated bending, folding and creasing better than paper made from species of Wikstroemia (Japanese fiber), suggesting an alternative for use with various printmaking techniques and paper arts and crafts that involve folding, such as origami. We engaged printmakers and origami artists in creating original pieces using our leatherwood paper and evaluated how the paper responds to various printmaking techniques and complex folding. We identified Dirca mexicana as a source of fibers with similar properties to species of Wikstroemia used to make gampi washi. Handmade D. mexicana bark paper was successfully used as a paper medium for intaglio, lithography, relief, digital, and screenprinting printmaking techniques, as well as, complex folding origami sculptures.

Making (Non)Sense of Urban Water Flows: Qualities and Processes for Transformative and Transgressive Learning Moments

Urban sustainability and justice depend upon the flow of water across complex urban space. Yet, the characteristics of urban space produce a fragmented sense of our water resources. Cape Town, South Africa, the context of this research, is one such city whose water challenges have been exacerbated by climate change-induced drought, to the extent that the city nearly shut off the water running to residents’ taps. This context presents a particular challenge for the focus of this special issue, transformative and transgressive learning, an emerging arena of thought and practice concerned with learning processes that might foster more sustainable socio-ecological relations. The empirical material for this research draws from 12 arts-based inquiry workshops run with youth in an environmental organisation over four months, exploring a local water crisis. The data were generated through an engaged arts-based research process. The paper traces how transformative and transgressive learning in the context of urban water crisis might be characterised as making (non)sense by bringing the empirical material into dialogue with five entry points of transformative and transgressive learning literature rooted in Freirean educational praxis. This paper crafts and engages the concept of making (non)sense, a way of thinking about qualities and processes of learning praxis that responds to the wicked sustainability challenges we face today, particularly in terms of a Global South perspective. I argue such a praxis needs qualities and processes that disrupt and trouble the norm in the context of the socio-ecological challenge of urban water.

The Teaching of Pattern Comprehension in the 2nd Grade of Primary School Using Origami Applique

In this study, we investigated the expression of the pattern concept in primary education. For this purpose, we chose the concept of rhythm as a means of repeating found in different contexts. In Music and Arts, rhythm is first a way to make compositions. In the case of learning Math, rhythm can aid in comprehending various structures. We used action research in this article – our study contained some trials of learning to understand composition and structures by completing some origami applique tasks; pupils from the 2nd grade were our study participants. The study was held during the following 3 stages: the investigation of simple repeating, the exploration of rhythmical directional changes, and the examination of rhythmical size changes. Fourteen participants took part in the study. The pupils were asked to make some compositions of origami applique based on certain rules set for them. The participants had to also use their experience acquired in the aforementioned tasks for further tasks, which required them to create their own patterns. They had to realize the basic underlying structures for completing such tasks.The data were gathered by collecting paper crafts made by students and by audiotaping the discussions with these children. After employing content analysis, for the sake of visual illustrations of the results, the main features of various task performance were depicted using some typical real examples from the paper crafts of the students.The results showed that 2nd graders were able to replicate a simple rhythm without making mistakes. When creating line-type ornaments, they concentrated on one possible feature to make the rhythm, often mostly ignoring such possibilities as repetitions in number, direction, and size. After gaining some new knowledge during the process of origami applique activities designed to teach the possibilities in changing direction and size, the pupils were eager to apply various structures elsewhere. The children were fast to realize the importance of tidy composition, to solve the arising difficulties, and to generalize the experience in some other contexts.

ディジタルペンとペーパクラフトによる3次元立体への筆記

ディジタルペンとペーパクラフトによる3次元立体への筆記

Historical Review on the Korean Paper Folding Crafts

ABSTRACT The history of paper folding had continued before that the paper manufacturing technique was spread in the 3rd century and it was used for witchcrafts and rituals. Fold means as was used with the word Cheop and Jeopji. In the Three Kingdoms period, the conical hat with fabric spread as customs, then it was made of the paper that led the popularization of paper folding form the early Joseon Dynasty. Paper crafts and living things with paper are mostly derived from fabrics except the pa-per written for saint’s name related God. In the period of the tribe nation, witchcrafts and rituals brought to Japan via the Korean Peninsula, as a result Kami which means God in Japanese that becomes the paper. The first folding fan was made to develop from the fan, Baekseopsun in the end of Goryeo Dynasty. It was an outstanding application of paper folding crafts. Since the early Joseon Dynasty, paper flower folding has considered as the virtue of savings and has developed one of the Korean traditional paper arts. Paper folding has also developed in the practical uses like the other Korean paper arts but paper folding that was developed as seasonal customs, playing or religious purpose showed a different trend from Korean paper arts.Keywords: Paper folding, paper crafts, folding fan, Kami, fabrics, paper folding crafts, paper flower folding

The Effects of Origami on the Improvement of Hand Dexterity

Humans actively perform activities necessary fordaily living using their hands according to their will.Activities are necessary for humans to live healthyand the use of the hands serves the role of a mediumthat connects humans with environments. The handsare used to make various movements such as makingthings and attempting to hold something whilestretching out the hands while being complicatedlymanipulated. Handicrafts that are made by thehands have been developed to induce hand move -ments. Today, they provide leisure skills and aresometimes used as therapeutic tools.All handicrafts require problem-solving, physicalabilities, orientation, and the permanency of percep -tion. For this reason, handicrafts have been used asa clinical tool since the establishment of the profes -sion of operation therapy. Handicrafts are applied toleather crafts, beadwork, metal craft, mosaic, art-work, thread-crafts, paper crafts, and computer.Among them, paper crafts refer to those handicraftsof making shapes by cutting or folding paper. Amongpaper crafts, origami enables anybody regardless ofage or sex to make flowers, animals, plants, dolls,mobiles, and frames anytime anywhere. In particu -lar, it greatly helps growing youths in their whole -some leisure activities and brain development as cre -ative artwork making and provides elderly personswith opportunities to obtain pleasure by making toysfor children and to have confidence in success(1). Origami is an active movements that we can easilyperform, which is considered to have all variables forthe improvement of hand function.Our every day life is lived by utilizing various toolsthrough the movements of our arms. Arm move -ments comprises reaching, manipulation, carrying,and releasing. Manipulations are divided into fivebasic types; finger to palm, palm to finger, shift,simple rotation, and complex rotation. All skillsrequire the ability to control the arch on the palm.Finger to palm and palm to finger are described asmoving objects linearly. This pattern maintainsobjects to be unceasingly in contac t with the pads of

建築ペーパークラフトの開発と 初等教育における教育効果

This paper is to explain the architectural paper crafts developed by the author. In addition, the educational effect on the elementary education with architectural paper crafts based on the result of the questionnaire on “workshops” for pupils in the neighbouring areas held from 2010 to 2012 is discussed. The majority of the feedback is such that it is fun although it is not easy；however, I also received others including the joy to be able to make a three-dimensional model from a sheet of paper and the future intention to become an architect. The possibility of architectural education is expanded, and the educational effect on the elementary education is fully recognized.

Whip Your Hobby into Shape: Knitting, Feminism and Construction of Gender

In the last fifteen years, domestic hobbies especially needle and paper crafts have been revived and rediscovered in the English-speaking world. In the forefront of this renewed interest in old-fashioned hobbies is knitting. Contemporary proponents claim that this craft helps them to achieve balance between their busy lives and dedicate some time to themselves. They often take their project to public spaces such as coffee shops, pubs, and park benches. Publishing houses speedily cash in on the revival by providing increasing numbers of pattern books to local bookstore chains. Hence, knitting constitutes an ideal case study for redefining the role of craft in contemporary popular culture. This article argues that knitting participates in an opening up of the three binary oppositions, namely original vs. copy, public vs. private in relation to space, and heterosexual vs. homosexual.Related to the past and conceived nostalgically through connection to our parents’ and grandparents’ domestic activity, knitting is rapidly being revitalized and repackaged by such groups as Debbie Stoller's Stitch ‘n Bitch as hip and fun. Women of any age but especially younger women in their twenties and thirties see knitting as empowering hobby because it provides an opportunity to undertake something purely unpractical and inefficient. It provides a conceptual link and helps redefine the historical and contemporary significance of domesticity in society.In the attempt to repackage and change the image of the craft several publications establish a connection between knitting and sexuality. These books construct knitting as not only a worthwhile and altruistic pastime but also as a decadent, self-indulgent, and subversive action. For example, Domiknitrix: Whip Your Knitting into Shape offers a bikini pattern as well as other edgy projects such as deep-décolleté tops and seductive hair and headpieces. Traditionally associated with home handicrafts, knitting had emerged into communal, activist practice. Contemporary popular media has also tied knitting to ideas of physical and spiritual love, peace amongst the nations, meditation, and rebelliousness against previous generations.This research looks at the knitted objects and the images that appear in the media to explore how knitting as a phenomenon helps women and men negotiate their everyday lives. Dedicating time to such traditional, time-consuming activities promotes the idea of conscious choice, of being in charge of one's life and time. Participating in these activities provides an outlet for relaxation, slowing down and taking in simple life pleasures. My research builds on this argument and looks further at the knitted objects themselves to examine their roles in the lives of their makers and consumers. Using contemporary material culture scholarship, which underlines the importance of identity formation through agency, I try to determine how the knitted erotic objects differ from items purchased in stores. What is the role of the handmade and self-produced? How do hand-knitted items that become part of interior display help to negotiate the identities and individualities of their makers? Finally, this article looks at how the presence of knitters in different social contexts helps to blur the binary division between public and private space. It also discusses the gendered appeal of knitting books and the total omission of gay men and their interests from the literature.

Hecho en Tejas: Texas-Mexican Folk Arts and Crafts

Book about Texas and Mexican folk arts and crafts, including paper crafts, quilting, weaving, sculpture, yard art, saddle-making, and other folk crafts. The index begins on page 349.

Creative Paper Crafts

Creative Paper Crafts

Paper Crafts for Rehabilitation

Paper Crafts for Rehabilitation