A friend and I meticulously marked, scored and pleated the rice paper into 1-inch sections. This was harder than folding the brown paper because the rice paper was much more delicate and could not hold onto crimps. This part only had taken 2 hours and did not come out very nicely. Once we had gotten to the corner folds it was evident that the paper simply was not designed for this. I thought maybe if I cut the paper into 6 sections to go around each side the lamp would at least have a cool pleated effect. This was not the case at all.