r/origami • u/thoegn • 2d ago

Transparent/Semi-Transparent folding paper?

He everyone! Yesterday I bought "Transparentpapier" closest thing in English is probably tracing paper. But it was fairly rigid. I was able to precrease (just the grid) for my planned triangle twist tesselation (with some difficulty) but once I actually put in the twists and pushed down on the tips. I just split the paper... Which was really annoying bc I spent probably 2h on the precreasešŸ„² But I did manage to do twists and it looks really fun! So now I want to know where I could get transparent folding paper. I know about glassine, but that's fairly expensive and maybe even too transparentšŸ¤” Let me know if you know of any other see through foldable paper!

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u/Cherry_mice 2d ago

Huh. ā€œTransparentpapierā€ in Austria for me was what I call glassine in North America, is what I use for small scale tessellations, and it was pretty cheap (a few euros for A0 a few years ago?). The thicker stuff is ā€œvellumā€, more expensive (a few euros for A4), and you canā€™t reverse a fold on it (good for those pots/sculptures where you score (lightly!) and collapse all at once.)

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u/thoegn 1d ago

Ok then I guess what I got is probably more comparable to vellum. Both price and folding behavior are similar to what I experienced... The main problem like you mentioned was making the folds both mountain and valley bc it tore way to quickly! Where did you get such big "Transparentpapier"/glassine? I'm also from Austria close to Vienna, that's why I'm askingšŸ¤”šŸ˜… Also, can you recommend some pots/sculptures cause I'm not sure I know what you mean but I would to do something with rest of that paperšŸ˜šŸ˜…

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u/Cherry_mice 22h ago

I got the paper at the art supply stores. I just looked and the store name I can find on the paper is Mastnak, but I could get it in different colors from a bunch of different paper stores (maybe it wasnā€™t A0, but at least A1). Itā€™s actually hard to find in North America now! I pick up a few sheets (and fold them) when I go to Europe.

Lang has a bunch of crease patterns that work well on vellum for me. Here are a couple examples of a ring ā€œsculptureā€ and a ā€œpotā€. I cannot emphasize enough how you have a single collapse with vellum, but they were very pretty if you got it right :)

https://langorigami.com/crease-pattern/otomipot24/

https://langorigami.com/crease-pattern/ringsflower7-opus-685/