My feeds are full of origami – mine and others – one origami artist that consistently pops up on my insta suggestions is @D.Hinklay:

I was drawn to his columnar corrugations, particularly “Prop 4” and “Prop 2” – they reminded me a lot of works of Huffman, Resch and many other origami legends, so decided I wanted to try them.

I committed a large sheet of duo Kraft paper, laid in a mountain-fold grid, strategically added zig-zags of valley folds, then began orienting folds.

The corrugation, like some fun folds, is an “all at once” collapse as you bend the sheet into a column – the creases then reinforce each other in very pleasing ways.

Slight variations in the type and placement of the zig-zags mutate the column geometry in very pleasing ways.

I then tried smaller sections, the grid conveniently fit on an A3 sheet – long 12ths that are then gridded up give you pretty well the perfect section – 2+ repeats of the corrugation and some top and bottom turnup.

These forms look a LOT like something that would make beautiful lampshades – must consider this. I think the paper would need to be heavy. textured (imagine washi or mulberry) and I am not sure if you would need to add a fireproofing coat given these days LED bulbs are pretty cool to touch?

Interesting diversion that broke up some editing I was doing on a new book