Spider Lily

The contrast between the flat, broad petals and the thin filaments at the center of this flower made it a challenging model to fold. In this design, the thin filaments come from the edge of the paper, and the central stigma is inverted through the center - if the paper were a different color on the reverse side, the stigma would be color-changed. I decided against this, even though the real one has a green stigma, because back-coating the white tissue paper would have made it thicker than I wanted and would have made the white less pure.

Design date: September, 2011

Paper used: A single un-cut square of tissue paper treated with methyl cellulose.