Origami: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Making Animals, Flowers, Planes, Boats, and More - Softcover

Duke, Yukiko; Torimoto, Norio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1634502612 ISBN 13: 9781634502610

Verlag: Skyhorse, 2015

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A simple, elegant guide to making origami.

From playful animals to delicate flowers and fun paper airplanes, this origami guide has projects that will delight both children and adults. With words, illustrations, and more than three hundred photographs, even the most complicated of folds and manipulations are made simple by this book’s easy-to-follow instructions. Master Norio Torimoto, with the help of Yukiko Duke, takes the mystery out of the art of paper folding by teaching readers the proper mindset behind the art and the basic formations that are the foundation for all his projects.

Projects include:

• Traditional tulip
• Crane
• Frog
• Lily
• Elephant
• Tyrannosaurus rex
• Envelope with a decorative heart
• and more!

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Norio Torimoto is one of the nine origami masters in the world, as appointed by the Nippon Origami Association. His work has been represented in museums, exhibitions, and Japanese cultural events all over the world. Torimoto now lives in Sweden.

Yukiko Duke is a journalist, broadcaster, translator, and expert on Japanese history and culture. Duke lives in Sweden.

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Origami

A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Making Animals, Flowers, Planes, Boats, and More

By Norio Torimoto, Yukiko Duke

Skyhorse Publishing

Copyright © 2012 Norio Torimoto and Yukiko Duke
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-63450-261-0

Contents

Foreword, 
Before You Begin, 
Traditional Origami, 
Norio's Models, 
Practical Uses, 
Do Your Own Origami, 
Challenge Yourself, 
Afterword, 
The Authors' Thanks, 

CHAPTER 1

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Origami is not difficult. There is no need for specific articles or special knowledge to fold. All you need is a square piece of paper. You can buy origami paper in Asian specialty stores, arts and craft shops, and certain paperies, but these are not at all necessary for success.

As Norio explains, "I have folded origami by using anything from the finest washi — Japanese paper — to dollar bills and pages from the phone book. But do you know what turned out to be the most ideal paper for folding? Regular brown wrapping paper!"

Some origami crafters will make cuts in their square piece of paper in advance in order to create their models. But Norio Torimoto believes that the challenge lies in exploring all the possibilities of the squared piece of paper. Therefore, he only uses scissors in one traditional origami model of this book.

Although some models require more steps to complete than others, none of these models are difficult to complete!

Symbols

In order to make the instructions easier to read, Norio's drawings are accompanied by symbols. Learn to recognize the meaning of these symbols and the folding will become even easier!

The symbols also open the door to the global world of origami. Since most of the symbols are internationally known you can easily fold using Korean or Polish instructions without mastering the language, as long as you know what the symbols mean.

Basic Folds

If you have been folding for a while you are most likely familiar with the existence of multiple basic folds. For the purposes of this book Norio has chosen the folds that most commonly occur. More or less all origami models — from the most fundamental to the most advanced — are based on these six basic folds. If you master these folds it will also make it easier to create models of your own.

We set out to make the illustrations and instructions as approachable as possible. However, the more complicated the models become the more folding lines and marking creases. These may clutter the illustrations and ultimately seem confusing. In these cases text may just confuse things even more for the folder. We have therefore chosen to keep the written instructions as short and informative as possible.

Norio recommends: "If you are unsure of how to fold anything, jump a few steps ahead in the instructions. By doing so you will usually be able to figure out how you should proceed. And if you want to make absolutely sure that you are doing things the right way, you may draw the illustrated marking creases on the paper itself. This will make the folding steps more obvious. Origami is an equal balance of sleight of hand and sleight of mind."

INTRODUCTION: FISH BASE AND SQUARE BASE

Fish Base

4. Fold up backwards or away from you, see symbol introduction p. 14.

5. Fold the inner flaps down.

2. Fold a middle crease that you later use as a guide.

3. Fold the left flap backwards and the right flap forwards.

4. Fold the triangle's edges together so that you get a square.

INTRODUCTION: CRANE BASE, FROG BASE, WINDMILL BASE

Crane Base

1. First fold a square base, then follow the illustrations above.

3. Unfold the top flap.

Frog Base

1. First fold a square base. Then fold the left flap towards the middle, as the illustration shows, and unfold.

2. Insert your index finger in the left flap, as the white arrow shows. Move towards the middle and push.

3. Repeat steps 1–3 three times so that each flap is folded in the same way.

4. Fold creases.

5. Fold the top flap up, as illustrated by the drawing.

6. Repeat steps 4–6 three more times.

Windmill Base

7. Fold so that the points marked on the paper meet. This will be easy since you have already created guiding creases.

8. Repeat three times.

TRADITIONAL ORIGAMI

Nobody knows for certain when and how the art of origami began in Japan. We do know that the technique of producing paper came to Japan, from China though Korea, at the end of the 500s A.D. The paper, washi, known in the West as rice paper, has absolutely nothing to do with rice. Washi is made out of the fiber-heavy growth mitsumata, the kozo plant, or the gampi tree, and it is especially suitable for origami because it doesn't tear easily.

In the beginning the paper was a rare and luxurious commodity and would only be used for writing, but in time, they started using folded paper in temple ceremonies. The art of folding was considered so important that one had to study for years before being allowed to fold.

Nowadays this kind of ceremonial folding is most commonly used in the Japanese gift wrapping traditions. When you buy a gift for a formal occasion you would, for instance, ask the store to attach a noshi as part of the wrapping — a kind of folded decoration which is attached to a cord around the gift.

Folding of certificates was another kind of early use of folding techniques. A folded certificate could be a guarantee of the quality of a sword or the value of a tea cup. Today the only trace of this folding tradition can be found in the word origamitsuki — "equipped with origami" — which functions as a guarantee of legitimacy. It is said that these two older versions of origami have been around since the Middle Ages. The third variety of folding — the variety we today consider to be the traditional Japanese art of folding paper — was most likely formed much later.

There are certain references to practices that could be origami in some accounts from the eleventh century. Among other things it is mentioned that the emperor Abe no Seimek folded birds out of paper that later came to life. However, we cannot know for certain that this relates to the art of origami.

The oldest unequivocal written reference to what we today refer to as origami may be found in a short poem by the author Saikaku Ihara (1642–1693) where he writes: "The butterflies in/ Rosei's dream/ would be origami". He refers to an origami model called Male and Female Butterflies, which is used to decorate sake bottles in wedding ceremonies.

By the 17th century the tradesmen had obtained great economic power in Japan and the bourgeois culture was flourishing in the many cities. The art of paper folding was, presumably, a highly appreciated pastime. In the classic book Koshoku Ichidai Otoko (The Life of an Amorous Man, 1682) Saikaku Ihara writes about the protagonist Yonosuke that "one day, when he was seven years old, he distinguished himself from the other children. With a rare propriety he folded birds and flowers out of paper."

From the 1600s and onward the art of origami quickly evolved. The first books featuring folding instructions were published as early as the 1700s: Sadake Ise's book Tsutsumi no Ki (Fundamental Wrapping, 1764) and Akisato Rito's Sembazuru Orikato (How to Fold 1000 Cranes, 1797). New origami models rapidly emerged, but many were...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Skyhorse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1634502612
• ISBN 13: 9781634502610
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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