A Butterfly for Tony Cheng

“Cheng’s Viceroy”

This design is named for our longtime friend, Tony Cheng; Origami USA Board member, folder, creator, teacher, and tireless origami enthusiast. He came up with this variation of “The Alice,” and so we named it for him.

You’ll most likely find “Cheng’s Viceroy” feeding on a red hot chili pepper plant! Whether or not you can take the heat, he will be your steady friend. Witty and smart, kind and courageous, “Cheng’s Viceroy” also guards the Gold Mine and manages its riches, harvesting donations and surplus materials once each year at the New York Convention for the benefit of the swarm.

safely pile it here
mounds of unwanted treasure
Gold Mine of Friendship

This “Cheng’s Viceroy” design will introduce a special wing modification of “The Alice.”

1. Begin with the “Butterfly for Alice Base” (pages 35 and 36, steps 1–13). Form a crimped overlap at the middle of each wing, by forming new leading edges while rolling the top edges and the bottom edges of each wing towards the center. (The excess paper rises along the center crease.) Use that mountain ridge to form an edge, folding the forewing paper down over the upper part of the hind-wing, creating overlap.

2. Your paper should look like this. Valley-fold the indicated edges inward, forming a color “V” pattern on each wing.

3. Mountain- and valley-fold the abdomen over the right wing.

4. Valley-fold the left wing to match the right wing. Unfold.

5. (A) Squash-fold the paper for the head. (B) Mountain-fold the corner behind. (C) Your paper should look like this. (D) Fold the wings together.

6. (A) Mountain-fold the abdomen edges inside. (B) Valley-fold the wings down on each side.

A Butterfly for Tony Cheng.