Joisel's Knight

Joisel used wet-folding and sculptural shaping to create rounded armor, a weighted stance, and the suggestion of articulated plates. Wet-folding, a method developed by Akira Yoshizawa, lets dampened paper retain curved forms after drying.

Joisel's figurative origami generally followed the traditional one-sheet approach without cuts or glue. The helmet, limbs, armor, and clothing therefore emerge through paper allocation and shaping rather than assembled components.

The final character depends heavily on hand shaping, moisture, paper thickness, and decisions about posture. Joisel approached origami as sculpture, so the crease structure establishes the figure while wet-folding gives each Knight its individual expression.

A strong, relatively thick paper that tolerates moisture is more suitable than small, brittle kami. Joisel sometimes worked at unusually large scales because a larger sheet provides more material for the Knight's face, hands, armor, and stance.