Origami Folding Technique

 

Valley Fold in Origami

 

 

 

Valley-fold is one of two important folding technique in origami. Equally important folding technique is Mountain-fold. If you know these two techniques, then you can fold almost all of simple origami models.

 
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When you are studying an origami diagram, you will be encountered with line symbols such as dashed line or dot-dashed line.

A simple dashed line represents a valley-fold while a dot-dashed line for a mountain-fold.

Here I use the red color for a valley-fold and the blue color for a mountain-fold just for a convenience.

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For an example, if a diagram shows a vertical dash line in the middle of the paper, it means you should valley-fold along the dash line.

 

origami paper heart back side

If you apply a valley-fold to the dash line, the paper will be transformed to form a "valley-shaped" or "V-shaped" figure.

 

The result is exactly opposite when you apply a mountain-fold which produces a "mountain-shaped" figure.

 

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