![]() ![]() And furthermore, re-dampening a semi-3D elephant with a wet kleenex is hard. That is, too quickly to finish folding a (simple) elephant. Wet origami paper does hold creases (I’d been rather suspicious that it wouldn’t at all), but they become very hard to see after a while. ![]() In this condition, I started folding the elephant, completely botching the folds leading up to the tusks, which in turn made even my makeshift tusk-fold impossible (I sort of skipped that part, just twisting the tusks into existence, which seemed to work, more or less). Of course, the more I tried to wipe off the dirt, the more color I lost… It turns out that wet paper picks up a lot of dirt. My (unvarnished) wooden table-top is much dirtier than I had thought.I could swear I ended up with almost as much color on the tissue I was using to wet the paper as on the paper itself. The color on the paper is water-soluble. ![]() Good thing the pattern didn’t require much precision. But I was afraid it would dry out if I wasted time trying to trim it, so I just ignored it, and did all of my folds to within a 1/6 inch error. Like, really not square, with a difference of maybe a third of an inch (out of seven inches) between the two directions. If it’s wet equally on both sides it doesn’t wrinkle much out of the plane, but in the plane it expands different amounts along different axes when wet.
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