Thumbelina's Flower

Artist: Mui-Ling Teh
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Thumbelina's Flower

The biggest challenge came in the smallest size, and it doesn’t take size to love and treasure something. Folded this one out of a 3×3mm piece of trace paper.

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Paul Compton, 2 months ago

Oh, oh oh oh oh. Absolutely incredibly beautiful. Truly magical.
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to Paul Compton’s comment, 2 months ago

Thanks Paul. Now that I got this shot over with I can finally sleep; way past my bedtime here. Goodnight (or goodmorning…. way past midnight here lol). Well hey it’s a long weekend :P
Lori Peters, 2 months ago

I don’t know how you can create something so small with precision. Very nice.
hilarydougill, 2 months ago

Fantastic work, beautifully done. sore fingers and eyes?
Irene Burdell, 2 months ago

Just amazing ,really beautiful.
Karin Taylor, 2 months ago

that’s unbelievable…!!! Mui=Ling, I’m gobsmacked!!! are you kidding me????...that is incredible, how on earth!!!! You amazing, amazing artist you!!! WOW!!! wonderful… (can you tell how impressed I am:)
Dawnsky2, 2 months ago

goodness Mui-Ling, thats teeny weeny,, i thought it was a real flower til i read your discription…well done indeed….x
Paul Suryawinata, 2 months ago

Very sensitively captured, Mui-Ling.. i really like your style.
cherylc1, 2 months ago

just incredible!!! lovely!
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to Lori Peters’s comment, 2 months ago

Thanks Lori. It really did take a lot of patience. I had to redo it several times because this is really easy to loose :P.
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to hilarydougill’s comment, 2 months ago

No not really :P. Thanks!
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to Karin Taylor’s comment, 2 months ago

lol. Thanks Karin :D So glad you like it ^ _ ^
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to Dawnsky2’s comment, 2 months ago

I wonder if it was the trace paper’s translucency which makes it look more real. I wasn’t really thinking about it when I chose that paper; I just knew that I needed a thinner paper to fold that small. Thanks for the comment Dawnsky!
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to Paul Suryawinata’s comment, 2 months ago

Thanks Paul!
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to cherylc1’s comment, 2 months ago

Thanks cheryl :)
blamo, 2 months ago

Amazing
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to blamo’s comment, 2 months ago

Thank you blamo!
Lam Tran, 2 months ago

Wow! You blown me away my friend! Outstanding patient and determination, great talent my friend! Smallest paper flower ever seen, well done my friend! People would buy that a gift shop! Well done my friend!
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to Lam Tran’s comment, 2 months ago

Thank you my friend. This would need a good encasing to be sold in a gift shot; it can get lost VERY easily. I had to recut the paper several times myself because I’d accidently drop it in the process of folding, and it’d be hard to find because for one it is small, and another it’s trace paper. Talk about searching for a grain of sand in a desert :P
jdmphotography, 2 months ago

Wow you are so clever awesome work all round brilliant ! (-;
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to jdmphotography’s comment, 2 months ago

Thank you very much my friend :)
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to Lam Tran’s comment, 2 months ago

whoops made a mistake in my last reply. Ofcourse grains of sand can be found everywhere :P I was going to say a grain of rice!
Lam Tran, 2 months ago

Lol, that’s Ok my friend, I understood what you meant! Like find a needle in a haystack! Right my friend!
BlueKnot, 2 months ago

(jaw drops to floor)

such delicacy!
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to BlueKnot’s comment, 2 months ago

lol. Don’t you mean your samurai sword ;) your mouth doesn’t look like it can open :P
KEITH R. WILL..., 2 months ago

nice work
Nikki Trexel, about 1 month ago

WOW. it’s incredible that anyone would be able to meticulously fold something so small! lovely work with the origami and the photo.
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to Nikki Trexel’s comment, about 1 month ago

Thank you! I’m glad you took notice of this one because sadly, although this is tiniest thing I folded it isn’t getting as much attention as my other mini creations. It occured to me that people are mistaking this shot for a real flower as opposed to one I made, that’s why it doesn’t seem like anything special until the description is read. It was even rejected by the Fine Arts group at first, and I had to bubblemail the moderator to explain that this was not just a photo, but a presentation of something I made.
funkyfacestudio, about 1 month ago

This is incredible, it must take a lot of patience, excellent work !
Greta McLaughlin, about 1 month ago

Wow! I too thought it was a real flower. I thought it was an amazing capture of a very teeny tiny flower. I then read your comment and now I find that not only is it a wonderful photograph, but also an amazing piece of art. Beautifully created and presented.
Mui-Ling Teh in reply to Greta McLaughlin’s comment, about 1 month ago

Thank you! Glad it caught your eye.
Cathy Cavolo, about 1 month ago

Exquisite work. You must be an extremely patient person. Beautifully titled too.