This article is useful to those who are interested in how to make a wallet out of paper. You can use a paper purse as a children's toy. And you can also use it if it is decided to give money to someone as a gift - it’s nice to give bills invested in such a homemade wallet and it’s no less nice to accept.
Master class “Origami paper wallet”
To work, the master will need a thick two-sided colored paper for origami. Naturally, the longer the side of the sheet, the larger the product. If you take a square with a side of 15 cm, then the purse will be of such dimensions: its length will be 7.5 cm and its width 3.75 cm.
Acquaintance with the folds "valley"
Since it is necessary to make a wallet out of paper, observing special accuracy (as in any kind of origami), you should first practice on a sheet of plain paper in order to understand the manufacturing principle itself. First you need to fold the sheet in half to yourself and straighten it - this step is called in the origami technique the fold “valley”.
Then you need to fold both edges of the sheet again in half vertically so that they converge in its middle - along the fold “valley”. The fold unfolds again. Thus, the master forms two more folds “valley”.
Now the sheet is folded in half horizontally towards itself and from top to bottom, that is, the “valley” fold is obtained again.
On the resulting rectangle, the upper corners are bent to themselves so that the fold of the vertical fold “valley” is not affected by the new fold. These folds are located at the horizontal bend. Corners also extend.
Description of squash folds
Now we describe the creation of squash folds. Since it is most often necessary to make a wallet out of paper according to the schemes and descriptions where this term is used, you should familiarize yourself with the process of performing this option of folding origami.
To do this, the fingers are placed inside between the layers of corners, and then move them apart, moving to the middle of the workpiece, thereby letting the top layer of paper along the middle fold “valley”. The squash fold first looks like a volumetric pound, but the master crushes it with his fingers, and it forms the shape of a house with a triangular roof.
Acquaintance with the folds "mountain"
At this stage of the work, two folds of a different type must be folded - the “mountain”. They differ from the “valley” in that they are formed by bending the workpiece in the opposite direction from the master.
These folds pass in the middle of the squash folds, dividing the so-called house roofs in half.
Now folds are formed "valley" at the corners of the first layer at the bottom of the workpiece.
Since you need to make a wallet out of paper with a lid that would cover the hole in the purse cavity, it is made from the corner obtained by the last folding. The “valley” fold is formed with a slight indentation from the line of passage of the edge of the squash fold.
Now the next fold, “valley,” completes the formation of a curly wallet cap.
In this place of the diagram, a strange icon is drawn under the picture - a loop with an arrow. It means that the workpiece should be turned to the other side. Then the second unused layer remaining after the formation of the lid is folded using the “valley” method - with the corners to the middle.
And the resulting corner is bent along the edge of the squash folds and pushed into the workpiece.
Turning the product over to the other, front side, we get a paper wallet. Do it yourself, as you can see from the explanation, is not so difficult. After the learning process has been completed, you can begin to manufacture the model from two-sided multi-colored paper intended for products using the origami technique.