Folding Techniques Video

Folding Techniques For Designers: Basic Concepts from Laurence King Publishing on Vimeo.
This video series is designed to accompany Paul Jackson's Folding Techniques for Designers. This unique book explains the key techniques of folding, such as pleated surfaces, curved folding and crumpling.

Basic Concepts: Dividing the Paper

Dividing the paper into exactly equal lengths or angles enables many other techniques to be performed. The position of the folds can be marked with a ruler and pencil, but it is much quicker and much more accurate to make them by hand. It is the hand-made method of dividing the paper into sixteenths that is shown here.