We begin performing a simple knot with the paper strip. The knot must
be tight tied meanwhile it is squashed to obtain a pentagon. Undo the knot and fold
all the strip onto the pentagon obtained with the knot. We need the paper
strip with 75 trapezes marked in it, as is shown in the figure 1. This
figure explain how to tie the basic double knots that are linked together
as is shown in the figure 2. The twelve pentagonal knots are tied together
into a dodecahedron by means of the remaining strip that is passed thought
the knots as show the numbered arrows in the figure 2(b). The model obtained
is somewhat 'loose' but nobody can deny that we have got to tie a paper strip
into a dodecahedron!
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