Design Your Own Paper Lamp
Making the Lamp: Preparing and Scoring Your Paper
A course by Kate Colin , Paper-Folding Artist
About the video: Making the Lamp: Preparing and Scoring Your Paper
Overview
“In this lesson we’re going to start making the lotus lamp. This will be on a bigger scale than anything you’ve folded before, so make sure you have plenty of space and a clear, clean table. It might take a bit of practice but above all, take your time and have lots of patience. Folding takes time and patience. ”
In this video lesson Kate Colin addresses the topic: Making the Lamp: Preparing and Scoring Your Paper, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design Your Own Paper Lamp. Create a unique origami-inspired lampshade by learning various paper-folding techniques and crease patterns.
Partial transcription of the video
“Making the Lamp: Preparing and Scoring your Paper In this lesson, we'll start preparing the paper, ready to make your lamp. Hopefully you've decided what colours you'll use now. I'm using mainly white with a selection of two colours, pink and yellow. I've bought a large sheet of white paper. You might not find one quite as large, but don't worry about it because we'll divide the paper up into sections. I'm going to take my piece of paper, which is 34 cm high. The first thing I'm going to do is apply some tape to one edge of it. This is how we're going to attach the different colours of pape...”
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Course summary for: Design Your Own Paper Lamp
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Decoration, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Lighting Design, Paper Craft
Kate Colin
A course by Kate Colin
Kate Colin is a paper-folding artist and lighting designer based in Glasgow. Her earliest memory of creating paper art was at the age of eight, when her mathematician father would make polyhedra models out of paper. Since then, she’s been creating handmade paper designs, with her first exhibition being The Lighthouse, Scotland's Center for Design and Architecture in Glasgow. After being awarded the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, Kate had the opportunity to be mentored by the leading paper-folding artists in Switzerland and Italy as a QEST Scholar.
Her work has also been exhibited in London Design Fair and Manchester Craft & Design Center. She has received numerous awards from different organizations like The Heritage Craft Association, Visual Artist & Craft Maker Award (Creative Scotland), and Crafts Council Hothouse Programme. Her work has been featured in publications such as Stylist, Elle Decoration, Loader Monteith Architects, and FT Weekend. In addition to hosting workshops from her studios, she also takes private commissions from clients like V&A Dundee, Anncoc Whisket, and Charlotte’s Place, among others.
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