How can you build a paper balloon?

Box

Materials

–     16 sheets of silk paper to color, 50 x 70 cms.

–      Metal ruler and scissors.

–     Glue

Comments

•        To get good results, pages should is all the same size and square.

•        You carefully review the figures before and pay attention when cutting and pasting to avoid mistakes.

•         This is a globe of 4 segments. For the ring (which must be square) and the spider, I recommend galvanized wire of 1.2 mm. The bushings, by way of illustration, can be 2 rolls 8 cms. long and 3 cm. diameter, obtained from a roll of about 8 sheets of kitchen paper cut in half and discard few inches.

The balloon must carry some ballast. 

Construction

1. Cut 8 sheets per diagonal. For this design color we cut 4 sheets of color and 4 of another.  

Tip: you cut always all together.

 2. We started to hit. Note: Overlays and hems are 8 or 10 mm.

3. We get 8 triangles like this. They form the pyramid top and bottom. 

4. Now we started to hit sides. 

5. We make 4 rectangles like this.

6. Attach the upper triangle.

7. Attach the lower triangle.

8. This is a piece finished.

9. If we wish, we can cut the surplus, especially at the tips, this will help you stay perfect.

10. Flip one of the slices and top side until the dotted line (8 or 10 mm.) Order to make a hem that the segments.

11. Hemming and paste.

12.Finished hem. 

13. Fold the upper half segment leading edge to the dotted line.

14. This must be set. Repeat steps 10 to 13, with the other two remaining segments.

15. Flip a set of segments and the other little moved over to make a third hem to attach both pairs.  

hen turn back and do the last hem to close the balloon.

16. This cross section clearly shows go together like the segments and hems.

17. Cut the mouth. This cut should be approximately 22 cm. Tip: Choose to mouth the tip which has been more messy

Manuel Patiño

The papper balloon on the World

The paper balloons have expanded to several countries on the world, They are a hobby that has spread from their homeland Brazil to European countries like Spain and Italy, eastern countries like Japan, China and Taiwan have always existed and South America countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia.

Europe:

This is the continent where less paper balloons are constructed. They arrived to the continent from Portuguese settlers; they were the first to arrive to Brazil.

Italy and Spain:

Asia:

In the Asian continent are built the famous lanterns are traditionally used in its varied culture.

Japan and China:

This video shows a scene from the movie “Tangled”, showing thousands of paper balloons.

Taiwan:

South America:

This is the continent where most paper balloons are constructed. The world power in this art is Brazil.

Paper balloon, Topic “dragon ball z”

Colombia

Paper balloon created by the group “Turma sur” of Medellin Colombia.

Mexico:

Traditional paper balloon Mexico (Ilama)

Argentina:

Paper balloon prepared by an enthusiasts Argentina