Origami: What’s a good papercraft to hang from my ceiling?
I’m planning on using fishing wire to hang a bunch of paper crafts from my ceiling above my bed as an added decoration.
I’m good with kusudama flowers but they’re so time-consuming. I was originally going to do paper cranes, but they’re kind of generic and harsh. I also like stuff like this:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/52414928/shimmery-redgold-koi-fish-paper-mobile
My room’s got kind of a nature theme. Whoever makes the best suggestion and provides a link for how to find it get it. 
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Wow, that’s really pretty! They’re also flat cutouts though rather than anything that’s folded.
Perhaps you could just stick with nature items or colors (even abstract shapes) that didn’t involve too much folding (or any at all). That would cut down on the time required to make something like that.
You might also want to check out “modern” paper folding/origami instead of traditional origami…that can be simple to complex, and often abstract though could be representational. Some of those would be much quicker to make but quite interesting, or you could do larger abstract paper-foldings, or even combine with interior cuts to do things like “papel picado,” then cut the final folded sheet or item into smaller pieces to have lots of individual items to hang.
(This is papel picado, though it’s often done with tissue or thinner papers: http://images.google.com/images?q=papel+picado )
“paper sculpture”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardsweeney/sets/72057594105588057
http://images.google.com/images?q=paper+sculpture
There was an extremely interesting tv program on the other night (maybe on PBS?) called something about folding (as it relates to math, science, art, etc) that I think you’d love and might get inspiration from. Don’t know if it’s available online, but will look in a minute (see below).
At the end of that show, one of the guys who’d done quite complex folding talked about now being interested in simpler forms, where for example he’d limit himself to one fold, then unfold the paper and see how many curved or other shapes the paper could be coaxed into. Really elegant looking, and amazing. Those kinds of shapes would work well for a mobile or multiple-hanging situation I’d think.
(Be right back if I find anything about that. . . . .)
FOUND IT!! …it was called “Between the Folds,” filmed by the series Independent Lens.
This site has more about it, and you can view a little of the show on video. This link shows the “one-crease” technique I was thinking of:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/between-the-folds/film.html
And YouTube has that segment, plus perhaps others in the sidebar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gynsE184d0
Perhaps you can find more video in one of these links:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Between+the+Folds%22