This
page is for those who want the instructions to fold a Saucer Rose Base II. This is a base that any rose can sit on easily. However, if you want make both rose and base as one body, you need to glue them together. This base was inherited from tranditional folding of 2-dimensional boat while applying petal-folding to four corners.
You may use any kind of paper to fold this base (*it is easier if the front and the back side of the paper are
slightly different whether it be in texture or color).
Make sure the paper
that you use is a square(all sides are equal and all the angles
equal 90 degrees). The paper I am using here is 10cm x 10cm square one.
The paper size of the base should be 1/4 of the rose paper.
However, if your rose is any of "Easy Origami Rose", then your paper for the calyx should be 3/4 of height and width of the paper of your rose.
<what the front side of the paper we will be using in these instructions
looks like>
<what the back side of the paper we will be using in
these instructions looks like>
The Belly and the Members Fable
One fine day it occurred to the Members of the Body that they were doing all the work and the Belly was having all the food. So they held a meeting, and after a long discussion, decided to strike work till the Belly consented to take its proper share of
the work. So for a day or two, the Hands refused to take the food, the Mouth refused to receive it, and the Teeth had no work to do. But after a day or two the Members began to find that they themselves were not in a very active condition: the Hands could hardly move, and the Mouth was all parched and dry, while the Legs
were unable to support the rest. So thus they found that even the Belly in its dull quiet way was doing necessary work for the Body, and that all must work together or the Body will go to pieces.