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Fold and Cut Designs
 
This Index page provides links to other pages containing information about paperfolding designs in which the paper is both folded and cut (or cut and folded) to create the final design. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

Fold and Cut designs can broadly be placed into two categories (although they are not completely mutually exclusive):

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Designs where cuts are made before the paper has been folded.

Types of design falling into this category are:

Designs folded from irregular templates or paper shapes

Designs folded from paper which has been divided into semi-separate sections before folding commences

Tab and Slit Designs

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Designs where cuts are made after the paper has been folded in some way.

Types of designs falling into this category are:

Fold and Cut Designs (from which no paper is removed)

Fold and Cut Designs (from which paper is removed to create a symmetrical shape, picture or pattern)

How to Divide a Square into Multiple Smaller Squares with a Single Cut

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