Cut and Fold Paper Textures: Techniques for Surface Design

This book will show you inspirational ways in which paper can be used to create textured and relief surfaces. These techniques are mostly intuitive and easy to make, requiring no origami or paper engineering knowledge.

There are 12 different techniques: Twisting narrow strips to make "paper string," Weaving strips, Layering, Coiling, Tearing, Bending, Incising and Lifting, Crumpling, Pleating, Cutting Pleats, Stippling, and using Translucent Surfaces. Each is beautifully illustrated with creative examples, first made in white paper and then in papers of different colors, weights, and textures. Finally, inspirational photographs show the techniques applied by designers to clothing, furniture, jewelry, and homewares, as well as artworks.

These techniques could be used by professional designers, design students in disciplines from textiles to interior design, and anyone with an interest in paper craft.

• Folding Techniques for Designers: From Sheet to Form (How to fold paper and other materials for design projects)
• How to Make Repeat Patterns: A Guide for Designers, Architects and Artists
• Complete Pleats: Pleating Techniques for Fashion, Architecture and Design
• Structural Packaging: Design your own Boxes and 3D Forms (Paper engineering for designers and students)
• Paper Sculpture: Fluid Forms
• Cut and Fold Techniques for Pop-Up Designs
• Cut & Fold Techniques for Promotional Materials
• The Art of the Fold: How to Make Innovative Books and Paper Structures (Learn paper craft & bookbinding from influential bookmaker & artist Hedi Kyle)
• Origami Tessellations for Everyone: Original Designs by Ilan Garibi
• Bound: 15 beautiful bookbinding projects