Jesús de la Peña Hernández
This construction associates geometry and paperfolding, and has these characteristics:- It starts with a unique piece of paper.
- That paper is not a square; instead it takes the form of the mere development of the finished
figure (Fig.2). - The paper should be cut.
- Union laps, though necessary, are not shown. The construction requires the use of glue or
sticking paper.
As can be seen, origami is now present. The licenses expressed here do not affect the essence of
paperfolding. In this respect it will be good to remind that the paper used formerly for origami in west-
ern countries was rectangular shaped (D. Lister), whereas in Japan the traditional square paper is re-
lated to the ancestral square parcels of land used to cultivate rice (K. Ohashi).
The kneading-trough we are dealing with here has been inspired by the KIKUJUTSU tradi-
tional Japanese carpentry so well described by T. IWASAKI. This technique makes use of certain spe-
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