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By Sue Lacy
Have you heard of Foldforming? Five years
ago, many readers would have said, “No.”
But all that is changing in a big way. In fact
if you’ve picked up a jewelry-making or
metal arts magazine like this one in the last
year or two, you are probably familiar with
some aspect of this wide ranging
technique.
Foldforming is
catching the
attention of
artists and
crafters on a
global scale,
and with good
reason.
There is a reason foldformin
nature. At its core, these te
out and embrace the natu
of metal. These same prope
universally at work in nature
“Many of the shapes in foldforming look like natural shapes for the
the ones in nature do: the material is operating right on the limits o
abilities and therefore the rules show up, and if it looks like a ram's h
it's because that's exactly what's happening in nature.” - Charles