Envelope & Letterfolds
Letterfolds are the folds you make so that the contents of a letter cannot be seen. The simplest letterfold is to fold a sheet in half. A common letterfold is to fold a sheet into thirds so that it fits into a standard-size envelope. However, there are other clever ways to fold a letter to give it a touch of charm.
Letterfolds
Billy’s Love Letter (E v d Ploeg)
Box-Lock Letterfold (traditional)
Daisy Letterfold (N Robinson)
Double-Card-Heart (E v d Ploeg)
DS Letterfold (D Shall)
Fern Letterfold (L Fernandez)
Florentine Letterfold (traditional)
Japanese Heart Letterfold
K-Letterfold (T Yenn)
Kite Letterhead (J Shafer)
Layered Letterfold
Layered Letterfolds Variations
Letter 2 (M Gutfeldt)
Letterfold (E Binzinger)
Letter Fold (page-a-day)
Our Envelope Letterfold (E v d Ploeg)
Traditional Letter
Lockless Letterfold (E v d Ploeg)
Lockless Letter Jora (E v d Ploeg)
Lockless Letter Rever (E v d Ploeg)
Lockless Pen Letterfold (E v d Ploeg)
Lockless Tulip & Leaf Letterfold (E v d Ploeg)
Lucky Letterfold
M-Letterfold (traditional)
Nabil Heart (E v d Ploeg)
NB Letterfold (P Noble)
Pocketbook Letterfold (E v d Ploeg)
Possible European Letterfold (via S Sternberg)
Quill Pen (HT Quyet)
School Teacher’s Fold (via D Hawk)
Sea Shell Note Card (V Juárez Quintero)
Sealed with a Kiss: 1, 2, pic (S Chen)
Smiley (H Tahir)
Sweetheart Letterfold (E v d Ploeg)
Square Letterfold (S Fujimoto, J Cunliffe)
Tree in Winter (N Robinson)
Valentine Letterfold (F Ow)
W-Letterfold (V Brandoni)
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Envelope Folds
An envelope fold is when you take paper and fold it into an envelope. This is exactly what people did before envelopes were commercially available. Back then, people would write a letter, fold it into the shape of an envelope, and send it. The letter and the envelope was one and the same. Letterfolds and envelope folds are similar; the difference being that envelope folds tend to be more like “containers” whereas letterfolds tend to be like folded paper.
Anchor Envelope (R Harbin)
Bar Envelope (F LeVvangia)
Box-Pleated Envelope (A Polidori)
Butterfly Envelope (F Kawahata)
Cormetic Envelope (E Corrie)
Crane Envelope (M Ishibashi)
Easier Done than Said Envelope (M Wilson)
Envelope with Crane or here (M Ishibashi)
Cross Envelope (J Shafer)
Disc Envelope (traditional)
Double-Lock Envelope (D Petty)
E-mail (S Chen)
Letter 96 Emfpänger/Recipient (H Strobl)
Envelope (origami-club.com)
Envelope (JTB Molina)
Envelope (F LeVangia)
Frog Envelope (J Cunliffe)
Gift Envelope (M van de Beek)
Harlequin Envelope (traditional)
Hawk Envelope (H Kumasaka)
Heart with Envelope (G Bubniak)
Oblique Envelope Fold
Oozeq Rectangle Envelope (W Zicker)
Pepi Envelope Fold (E v d Ploeg)
Pepi-Love Envelope Fold (E v d Ploeg)
Red Envelope (S Chen)
Ribboned Envelope (L Kruskal)
Sack Envelope
Simple Envelope (S Chen)
Simple Envelope (traditional)
Single-Lock Envelope (J Cunliffe)
Snail Mail (S Chen)
Surprise Envelope (J Shafer)
T-Flap Envelope (M Wall)
Trap Envelope (M Wall)
Two-By-One Envelope (V Brandoni)
Valentine Envelope (S Momotani)
Valentine Envelope (B Gargol)
Valentine Envelope (A Biernacki)
V-Envelope (traditional)
Wallet Envelope (J Cunliffe, H Ohashi)
- see interesting ways to origami-fy your page corners here
- see traditional tato envelopes here
- see CD, DVD envelopes and sleeves here
- learn about the history of letterfolds here
- see clever ways to lock letters before they invented envelopes
Unless otherwise noted, the majority of these letterfolds are from Envelope and Letterfolding and the Envelope and Letterfold Association.
