Two of Teresa's origami projects earned ribbons at the 2026 Charlotte County Fair in Florida. A cubic ornament called Japanese Brocade, designed by Minako Ishibashi, was awarded a Blue Ribbon. A kusudama named Roxane, designed by Ekaterina Lukasheva, was awarded a Red Ribbon.
 
Japanese Brocade required six square sheets of paper which were folded into units and then assembled without the use of glue, tape, or any other adhesive. A fabric ribbon hanger was added before closing the last join between units.
 
The Roxane kusudama, a stellated icosahedron, was created from 30 small rectangular sheets with a 1:2 ratio. These rectangles were folded into units and assembled without the use of glue, tape, or any other adhesive. A silk hanger cord was added before closing the last join between units, and then glass beads were sewn through the model as a finishing touch.
 
To learn more about one of these items, please click on it in the image at left, or you can use the links below.

The winning items included a non-modular hexagonal box designed by Tomoko Fuse, some five-pointed stars designed by Isa Klein, and an origami rose designed by Toshikazu Kawasaki.
 
The box was formed from two rectangular sheets of Yuzen Chiyogami Washi paper -- one sheet for the lid and one for the base. The Fluted Flower Crest decoration on the lid features curls and curves achieved by using a wet folding technique.
 
The Kawasaki Rose was created from two square sheets of foil-backed Momigami paper -- a larger sheet and a much smaller sheet. After folding a rose from the larger sheet, another rose was folded from the much smaller sheet, and then the smaller rose was nested inside the larger rose.
 
Each of the Estrela Sothis star was folded from a single pentagonal sheet of double-sided craft paper with a matte red surface on one side and a metallic gold surface on the other side.
 
All of these items were made without the use of glue, tape, or any other adhesive.
 
To learn more about any of these items, please click on it in the image at left, or use the links below.
 
          Kawasaki Rose          Fluted Flower Crest Box          Estrela Sothis
 
 
 
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One Blue Ribbon was earned by a set of variations of Nobuko Okabe's Star Arisa -- shown at left. Each of the four stars was assembled from eight units. The set as a whole illustrates how making minor changes in the folding of the basic unit can significantly alter the final appearance of a modular origami model.

A second Blue Ribbon was awarded for a kusudama named Petals, designed by Tomoko Fuse -- shown at left and below. This is a "face-and-base" kusudama made by folding and assembling 30 units from 60 small rectangular sheets of paper. Each unit is formed by folding a "face" from one sheet, folding a "base" from another sheet, and then inserting the face into the base. Each finished unit has a tab-like part and a pocket-like part. The units are assembled with icosahedral symmetry by inserting tabs into pockets.

A third Blue Ribbon was earned by a holiday tree called Bialbero di Natale, designed by Francesco Guarnieri -- shown below. The tree has six units in graduated sizes. It is assembled by stacking/nesting the units, which are then held together by gravity.

All of these modular origami items were hand-folded and assembled by Teresa without the use of glue or any other adhesive. To see bigger images of these items or to learn more about any of them, please click on the item's image or link.

 
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