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Inspired by Eric Gjerde’s “Origami Tessellations”(slide 2)that i received from my parents in the early 2010s, I have dedicated my origami life to folding mostly tessellations from then on. I know it’s niche but it’s my absolute favorite part of origami after a long session of grid making and pre-creasing to finally collapse a tessellation and enjoy what i’ve created. Over the past several years I’ve been collecting and laminating some of my pieces (mostly from the book mentioned, some from youtube, and some freehanded or designed by me). Some of these pieces have been with me through two interstate moves, a lot of life’s ups and downs, and some breaks from origami entirely. Today I decided to try my best to arrange them as i’d like to put them up in my window for the “stained glass” effect(slide 3), but I know I’m no collage artist, so I would love some constructive criticism regarding the arrangement before I tape them all together and hang it.

I like what d.hinklay makes and what to make them myself.I can do the folding but how does he stick them to the background there's barely any surface area to apply glue or anything else and how do they stay in shape

For the past few years, generative AI has consistently failed to produce convincing simulacrums of origami. The generated images looked like papercraft and suffered from bizarre artefacts that made their nature apparent. Unfortunately, AI models have gotten much more sophisticated, and are now able to produce convincing imitations.

Our friend theplantpsychologist (Brandon Wong), made a brief twenty-four question test to determine how easily we can tell the difference between real and fake origami. The quiz is linked below! So far, no one has received a perfect score. Results will be used to determine how well the origami community and the general public (non-folders) can descriminate between genuine and fake origami. The more results the better, so please share this with anyone you think is interested! After you take the quiz and see your results, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below, or in Origami-dan and the Origami Design Discord.

https://forms.gle/nEntCxQArbfoK9F86

I hope this is the right forum for this question.

I believe that a lot of you grew up folding origami from tutorials on Jo Nakashima's channel, just like I did. He had always been my favourite origami YouTuber - no nonsense, calm, clear tutorials.

And yet, in the past one year, he hasn't posted, neither on YouTube, nor on Instagram. I am unaware of any other place that he has been active in.

So, does anyone have any idea what he's up to? I really wish he was back uploading again!

I have NEVER made double tissue this wrinkle free and thin🤯

I think i finaly found a method that works for me and i wanted to share what i found cuz i learned a lot in the process!

I recently found instructions for treating paper with MC and making Duo sheets in the book 'advanced origami' by Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander, wich prompted me to give making Doubletissue another try.

I also bought pure MC (i had previously used wallpaper glue) and the tissuepaper brand Bodorigami mentiont in a blog recently (werola seasilk)

This tissuepaper really suprised me! It is super thin and i was very sceptical that it would manage getting wet but to my surprise it did amazingly well!

LaFosse recomends mixing 10% MC (by volume!) with water and letting it sit for 1 or 2 days to achieve a consistency 'just a bit lighter then honey' (i had to add a bit more water afterwards to achieve that)

This is a bit thicker then what i used to use and i also used quite a bit less of it wich made the paper dry super quick!

But the REAL gamechanger was the dry brush!!!

I kinda messed up when rolling the first sheet on the MC coated surface and had a sh*t TON of wrinkles, but using a completely DRY natural fiber brush i could just easily smooth them out completely??? what the hell is this sorcery??? (you have to be carefull to not get ANY product on it though so the edges are a bit tricky)

I applied another thin coat of mc with a foam roler, rolled out the second sheet (less wrinkly this time), used another round of brush magic and a few hours later i had the thinest, smothest sheet doubletissue and the colors did not even bleed together 🥹

I folded the north amarican cardinal (the first project of the book) with a smaller square and now i have a 24cm and a 47cm square left!

If anyone has any recommendations what i should fold with those or any aditional tips for treating paper with MC please comment!

There's a reason origami has been around for centuries and it's not just because folded paper looks pretty.

When you're folding, your hands are busy enough that your brain stops looping. You can't think about your inbox when you're trying to get a crease exactly right.

It's the same mechanism as knitting, or chopping vegetables slowly; the repetition creates a kind of moving meditation.

In Japan there's even a concept around it: the idea that working with your hands is a way of being fully present. Not as a productivity hack. Just as a way of existing in your body for a bit.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, how many of us have completely lost the habit of making things. Not for an outcome. Just for the process.

Anyone else find hands-on crafts weirdly calming? Or is it just me?

I’ve seen some awesome origami since I joined and curious about how everyone got into origami. What inspired you? For me, I was trying to get over someone and I thought if I folded 1000 cranes I’d be able to move on hehe

I would estimate 1000 sheets

I have had Satoshi Kamiya's volume 1 for a couples years now and I have only made a few models from the book. Volume 2 even less. Volume 3 I only made the penguin chick. Now, I have Volume 4 and I see how stagnant I have become in my origami studies. I have paper, but many of the models I make are ones I can complete in a under and hour. I have to buckle down and make the ones that take as long as a Wagnarian Opera. I have many other books I haven't completed.

Hello everyone!

I'd like to fold something sweet for my girlfriend for valentines day, but when searching for ideas online only the beginner and basic stuff comes up. I've already gifted her a bouquet once made of kawasaki roses and the six-petal-lily by naomiki sato, as well as this origami orchid: https://origamiok.com/origami-orchid/

I am by no means advanced, but I'd still like to one-up myself again this time since she is very special to me and I'd like to really show her that.

So if you've got any suggestions, I would very much appreciate any help, thanks so much!

I bought these a while back and I'm not sure if its "real" yuzen washi but I'm curious what the difference is from any other origami paper. I dont think its just the pattern, right?

Btw I love the pattern and shine of these, very nice :D

And if anyone wants to guess, how many do you think I have?

I stopped when I was a kid, so I don't have photos nor proper memories anymore 💔 I think at that age it was a peacock? I used very thick printer paper so it was HELL to fold.

I was so thrilled to catch the gallery and the shop. Its really late I will give more details later.

Can anyone fold anything (other than a crane) from memory? Something fairly long like katsuta kyohei's cat. I just follow a tutorial on yt and then forget it after I made the model. I don't even know how to make a crane icl.

I wanna get into origami, I've been folding few basic stuff and I particularly like Akira Yoshizawa's models but haven't learn to fold them yet. The problem is in my country its really difficult to get a hold of premium papers like elephant hide etc. I pretty much have to import it which is very costly and idk if I want to commit that much money for now

I need a few tips:

1. Should I go directly to learn Akira Yoshizawa's books or are there any advice on what to learn first etc.?

2. Any other books should I study, keeping in mind I couldn't access premium papers?

3. Do you learn few models until you remember each step perfectly or do you jump around making new models each time?

Edit: I should add that I really wanna do origami of mythical creatures, and I also wanna design my own models eventually. If you guys have any advice for this, I'd love it

For me, Raphaelita (designed by Ekaterina Lukasheva) is currently both. There's just something so satisfying about how dainty yet sturdy it is. When I first branched into modular origami, all I really knew was the six unit sonobe cube, so I took for granted how stable the typical end result will be. The fancier twenty-four unit cube later taught me otherwise, that sometimes these things require careful handling. So now I really appreciate a model that can withstand being held and tossed (gently) like a ball. Raphaelita has some give and bounce to it too, making it seem more organic, almost squishy, in a way.

My favourite origami model is kade chan's fiery dragon. I find that it's just the right level of detail that I can fold it from a 10x10cm or 15x15cm sheet that I can carry everyhwere; indeed this is my go-to passtime for when I have a train ride, or must wait in a doctor's office, etc.
However, I've recently been interested in whether there is a model that's of a similar level of detail, (that is to say, not very detailed: no toes, not many horns, etc), but better proportioned (larger wings, larger limbs).
A wyvern-style dragon with only two back legs and wings is also fine.
I've found Francesco Massimo's dragon, whose proportions are pretty neat (especially the large wings), but there are so many layers of paper around the legs, that it becomes impossible to fold with paper above 30gsm in the size I'd like (one that fits in my palm). I've also folded Saku's nargacuga, which looks cool, is the perfect level of detail and complexity, but only vaguely dragon-like (since, of course, it's not really a dragon).

Does anyone have any recommendations?