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Whether you call them envelopes or onvelopes, folding your own paper
envelopes is easy. All you need is a square piece of paper. These envelopes
are best for lots of seed, or to hold seed heads as they dry, or to hold cleaned seed, or you can
use them to hold a bunch of seed packets. The
Seed Bank uses "#1 coin" envelopes to hold seed packets but
I like these envelopes better for collecting and storing seed.
I didn't design these envelopes. Robert Gibson sent seeds in these cute
envelopes.
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The first step is to fold the paper in half to make a triangle
(1, 2).
If your paper isn't square, trim the excess at this point.
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Rotate the triangle 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
Fold the more pointed corners into the center in thirds (3).
Tuck one of the pointed ends into the fold of the other (4). This
locks the folds.
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Next we are going to fold in thirds in the other direction (5).
Tuck the pointed top into space between the tucked ends and the
bottom of the inside of the envelope (6).
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Now you have a completed envelope (7).
Open it back up and you can put your seeds in the body of the envelope
(8).
Don't forget to write the contents on the envelope.
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These envelopes don't need to be taped or glued.
Of course if you would like to roll your own you can also send in seeds
like this:
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