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Origami paper and a traditional origami crane. Origami paper is the paper used for origami, the art of Japanese paper folding.The only real requirement of the folding medium is that it must be able to hold a crease, but should ideally also be thinner than regular paper for convenience when multiple folds over the same small paper area are required (e.g. such as would be the case if creating an ...
Origami Ornaments: The Ultimate Kusudama Book Lew Rozelle, St. Martin's Griffin, 2000 ISBN 978-0-312-26369-0; Origami Flower Ball (Origami Hana Kusudama) (in Japanese) Yoshihide Momotani, Ishizue Publishers, 1994, ISBN 978-4-900747-02-9; Marvelous Modular Origami Meenakshi Mukerji, A K Peters. 2007, ISBN 978-1-56881-316-5
This category is for origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. Other paper folding arts and mathematical aspects of paper folding are in Category:Paper folding . Subcategories
A quilled basket of flowers. Paper craft is a collection of crafts using paper or card as the primary artistic medium for the creation of two or three-dimensional objects. . Paper and card stock lend themselves to a wide range of techniques and can be folded, curved, bent, cut, glued, molded, stitched, or layere
In the United States, the term kirigami was coined by Florence Temko from Japanese kiri, ' cut ', and kami, ' paper ', in the title of her 1962 book, Kirigami, the Creative Art of Paper cutting. The book achieved enough success that the word kirigami was accepted as the Western name for the art of paper cutting.
Wet-folders usually employ thicker paper than what would usually be used for normal origami, to ensure that the paper does not tear. [1] One of the most prominent users of the wet-folding technique is Éric Joisel, who specialized in origami animals, humans, and legendary creatures. He also created origami masks.
Let's Enjoy Paper Folding Vol. 1: Origami Flowers and Vegetables, ISBN 4-321-45501-4; Let's Enjoy Paper Folding Vol. 2: Animals, ISBN 4-321-45502-2; Kusudama Ball Origami, ISBN 0-87040-863-1; Tanoshii Origami Tenshu, ISBN 4-391-12031-3; Joyful Life with Origami/Kurashi ni Yakudatsu Jitsuyou Origami, ISBN 4-7916-0085-1
The history of paper toys can be traced back to the art of origami (or-i-GA-me).The word is based on the Japanese words Ori, which means to fold, and Kami, which means paper. However origami's roots are from China and it spread to Japan somewhere around the sixth century. The craft was for only the rich at first because the cost of paper was ...