{"id":678,"date":"2008-08-03T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp1020926.wp039.webpack.hosteurope.de\/blog\/e\/?p=678"},"modified":"2010-05-10T13:17:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T11:17:36","slug":"folded-paper-strips-of-equal-width-gleichbreite-falt-papierstreifen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-565\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.wordpress.com\/files\/2008\/07\/unikatissima-folded-paper-strips-of-equal-width.jpg?w=250\" alt=\"Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width\" width=\"250\" height=\"132\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"links\"><a href=\"#li080803\"><strong>Links of entry<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes you need folded paper strips of the same width, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamboree.freedom-in-education.co.uk\/w's%20craft%20corner\/paper_woven_basket.htm\">weaving paper baskets<\/a> e.g., making a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftster.org\/forum\/index.php?topic=52309.0\">magazine purse<\/a> or perhaps when making accordion folds.<br \/>\nMaking those strips can be a time-consuming and frustrating experience &#8211; but it can be very fast and easy as well: Once I read somewhere (unfortunately I don&#8217;t remember where exactly) that you only have to roll your paper sheet over a dowel and then flat the paper roll.<br \/>\nEasy peasy, isn&#8217;t it? ;-)<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.wordpress.com\/files\/2008\/07\/unikatissima-folded-paper-strips-of-equal-width-a.jpg?w=250\" alt=\"Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width\" width=\"250\" height=\"142\" \/> You need your sheet of paper and a dowel.<br \/>\nI used here one of my <a href=\"?p=87\">giant knitting needles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-569\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.wordpress.com\/files\/2008\/07\/unikatissima-folded-paper-strips-of-equal-width-b.jpg?w=250\" alt=\"Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width\" width=\"250\" height=\"123\" \/> Roll your sheet of paper on the dowel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-570\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.wordpress.com\/files\/2008\/07\/unikatissima-folded-paper-strips-of-equal-width-c.jpg?w=250\" alt=\"Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width\" width=\"250\" height=\"56\" \/> Pull the dowel out of the roll and flatten the paper roll.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-571\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.wordpress.com\/files\/2008\/07\/unikatissima-folded-paper-strips-of-equal-width-f.jpg?w=250\" alt=\"Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width\" width=\"250\" height=\"146\" \/> This way you get paper strips which are of the same width over the whole length.<br \/>\nOnce I made a bowl like these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftster.org\/forum\/index.php?topic=71395.0\">magazine bowls<\/a>. I preferred the ends of my paper strips to be thinner then the center, so that everything is about the same width everywhere.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-572\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.wordpress.com\/files\/2008\/07\/unikatissima-folded-paper-strips-of-equal-width-d.jpg?w=250\" alt=\"Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width\" width=\"250\" height=\"106\" \/> Roll your sheet of paper diagonally on the dowel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-573\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.wordpress.com\/files\/2008\/07\/unikatissima-folded-paper-strips-of-equal-width-e.jpg?w=250\" alt=\"Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width\" width=\"250\" height=\"56\" \/> The paper roll gets longer, but the ends are thinner than the center.<br \/>\nYou can now overlap the strips and create a strong bowl.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"li080803\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamboree.freedom-in-education.co.uk\/w's%20craft%20corner\/paper_woven_basket.htm\">Paper woven basket<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftster.org\">craftster.org<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftster.org\/forum\/index.php?topic=52309.0\">Magazine purse<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftster.org\/forum\/index.php?topic=71395.0\">Magazine bowls<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.de\/images?q=magazine%20bowl\">Google image search result for &#8216;magazine bowl&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links of entry Sometimes you need folded paper strips of the same width, when weaving paper baskets e.g., making a magazine purse or perhaps when making accordion folds. Making those strips can be a time-consuming and frustrating experience &#8211; but it can be very fast and easy as well: Once I read somewhere (unfortunately I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,52,53,67,73,82,86],"tags":[103,473,474,286,482,483,334,487,489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3761,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}