Origami Folds: Starting a Water Lily

Video Transcript

"In this clip, I will show you how to fold the water lily. This is a relatively intermediate model, and so it requires some moderate skills, and patience, and persistence. If you haven't folded a water lily before, I would suggest folding with a large sheet of paper, and soft paper. This is either tissue paper, or mulberry paper. This is mulberry paper. This is a twelve-inch square. The water lily begins with a blitz base, and is essentially four blitz bases. So for the first three blitz, we are going to fold on all on the same side. So, already we have one blitz. Now let's do the second blitz. This is our second blitz. All points to the center. All points to the center. Now let's do our third blitz. Again, on the same side, fold all points to the center. Now for our fourth and final blitz, we are going to turn the entire unit to the other side, and fold our fourth and final blitz. Now for each of these points, we are going to fold them in just a little bit, a little notch. Fold each of these points in. This fold serves to lock our previous folds together, in preparation for our next step."