Folds and goldilocks!
Hi, everyone! I'm a completely new poster here and so excited to finally join the community! I've been lingering around for a year or two and I've learned so much from all your posts! A little background on me: I'm 19 (almost 20) years old, in college, and I think I've found my "goldilocks" cup! I first started with the small Lady cup, then
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The 7 fold, the S fold, and E fold should be pretty easy to explain. The names of the folds seem to be descriptions of the shape that one forces the rim in to. I wish I could just take your hands and move them to show you the folds! How easy would that be!
The S fold is going to be folded with the rim of the cup making an S shape. Ok, so to describe the what letter S looks like (I worked with a blind guy who told me he'd never bothered to learn what shapes letters were, so I won't take it for granted that you know).
So the letter S is like a snake that goes from the top right to the left, and then down to the right, and then down to the left. Making a zig zag or squiggle shape. To make the S fold, you fold your cup flat in half, and you hold each end of the rim in each hand (between forefinger and thumb). Then you're going to keep your thumb and forefingers of each hand pointing towards your other hand, and bring your hands together, next to each other. The back of your right hand thumb will then be sitting against the back of your left hand forefinger. When you bring your hands together you make the rim make that snakey or zig zag shape with the rim.
This is different from the C fold, where you would bring your the back of your thumbs together to get the cup's rim to make a C fold. Instead you are almost making two C folds - one pointing each way.
The part that i find hard is to move my hands to the outside of the folded cup without it coming out of it's folded shape!
The next is the 7 fold. For this fold, the rim of the cup is going to be shaped like the numeral 7. Imagine a square, and then a line from top left to top right, and then from top right to bottom left. That's the shape of the number 7.
So just like the C fold and the S fold, you start by folding your cup flat in half. But instead of brining the right hand rim of the cup across to the left hand rim of the cup, like you would in the C fold. Instead you're going to bring your right hand (and the right hand rim of the cup) down towards the left hand side of the body of the cup. So it's not rim to rim (like the C fold), it's rim to side. And the overall rim of the cup makes a shape like the number 7.
The next is the E fold. The capital letter E can be described two ways. Either as two letter C, one on top of the other. Or, as the letter C, or a crescent, but with a line sticking out if the centre of it. Again, the letter E is the shape that the rim of the cup will make. In your right hand, you want to pinch a little bit of the cup's rim together, between forefinger and thumb, as if you were going to flatten the cup like you do with the C fold. However, youre then going to use your left hand to wrap the remainder of the cup's rim around the little bit that you pinched in you right hand. Essentially you're making a big C fold in your left hand, and a little flattened bit in your right hand. It's like your left hand is eating your right hand.
I find this one really hard to move from once I have folded it. It's as if you can't move your hands into a good insertion positon without the cup popping open with great force!
The origami fold, called so because it involved more that one fold.
Basically you do a punch down fold. But you don't punch down the rim all the way to the base of the cup like normal, instead you only punch it down half way down inside the cup. Then you take the right hand corner of the rim, and swing it down half way down the left hand side of the cup, like you do with the 7 fold. And that's it. personally, I find this one pretty hard to do and the shape it makes is awkward. But many people love it.
Hope that helps! (and hopefuly my descriptions aren't overly visual). All the best practicing your new folds :)
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