We still weren’t done with dragons. The sequences of folds in the strips of paper
were equally fascinating and we felt compelled to represent those too. First came
a series of three scarves with stripes showing where the folds would be in the paper.
Inwards folds were one colour, outwards folds another. Each scarf represented a different
number of folds. The scarves have the magical property that when you fold them in
half again and again, the colours alternate as the stripes pile up on top of each
other. We weren’t satisfied with three strips so the wall-
In the the bottom section of the hanging you can see a single orange line, representing an inward (valley) fold. In the section above there are two orange lines representing inwards folds and one cream line representing an outward (mountain fold). By the time you reach the top row there are 127 folds.
Previous afghans had been dual-