These are diagrams for an elegant looking white lotus flower.
Step 1:Prefold over these lines.
Then, turn the paper.
Step 2:
Make a valley-fold over these 4 lines.
Step 3:
Turn the model.
Step 4:
Make these folds from the edge of the model
to the center, not any further.
First, make 2 valley-folds below, on the right. Then, make
2 mountain-folds in the middle. And make 2 valley-folds
on the top left.
Step 5:
Pull the piece indicated by the arrow upwards by
making a valley-fold over the pink line.
Step 6:
Press the 2 layers indicated by the smaller arrows
against each other. Then press the loose piece flat
from above with your other hand, see large arrow.
Step 7:
Make a valley-fold over these 2 lines.
Step 8:
Unfold the folds from step 7
Step 9:
Pull the edge indicated by the arrow downwards by making
a valley-fold over the pink line.
Step 10:
Press the edges that stand upwards flat from above,
see arrows.
Step 11:
Fold the triangular piece below the pink line upwards
by making a valley-fold over this pink line.
Step 12:
Repeat step 6 to 11 on the other 3 loose pieces.
Step 13:
Pull the 2 petals at the bottom of the arrows outwards,
in the direction of these arrows.
Step 14:
Fold the triangular piece above the pink line to the
inside of the model by making a mountain-fold over this
pink line.
Step 15:
Push the 2 petals towards each other again, see arrows.
Step 16:
Repeat step 13 to 15 on the other 3 triangular pieces.
Step 17:
Push the 2 pieces indicated by the arrows upwards by
making a valley-fold over the pink line.
Step 18:
Pull the upper layer of paper (see arrows) upwards,
loose from the rest of the model.
You can start pulling it loose on the places indicated
by the arrows.
Fold the piece in the center downwards by making
by the arrows. You don't have to make new folding lines
The 4 petals with less paper-layers are going to be on
