Origami A guide for gift ideas edition by FRANCIS NGASSAM Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks
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What is origami?
Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding. It began in the 12th century as a way of constructing decorative holders and ornaments on offerings made to the gods. During the Muromashi period (1338-1573), several prominant Japanese families made decorative paper folding a requirement when presenting offerings to the gods. This is when the art of origami was officially born. This tradition lives on in Japan today, and presents are often decorated with origami figures called noshi, and origami figures known as mecho and ocho often decorate wedding gifts. Origami patterns were passed down from parent to child as a recreational activity, so there weren't written records of most designs. The first book of origami instructions was Senbazuru Orikata, meaning 'thousand crane folding was published in 1797. Although it showed many different origami shapes, the diagrams were scant, leaving the reader guessing as to how the shape was created. In the 1950s and 1960s the first specific diagrams were designed by Akira Yoshizawa. His designs were perfected by Samuel Randlett and Robert Harbin. This led to the Yoshizawa-Randlett-Harbin model of origami folding diagrams that was adopted as the international standard. It is still the general diagramming standard that is used today. Yoshizawa died in 2005 at the age of 94, but he is still considered the father of modern origami. These diagrams use specific dotted and dashed lines, as well as arrows to indicate fold types and fold direction. The arrows show how the paper is bent or moved, and the lines show various types of edges. A thick line indicates the edge of the paper. A dashed line indicates a ‘valley’ fold. A dashed and dotted line indicates a ‘mountain’ fold.
For hundreds of years, the most complex origami figure consisted of about 20 folds. Now, however, advanced patterns of 100 to 200 steps are not uncommon. There are origami enthusiasts world-wide, as well as organizations devoted to the art, such as OrigamiUSA. OrigamiUSA is an educational and cultural organization dedicated to the art of origami paper-folding. It holds annual conventions, international contests, and boasts over 1600 members in the United States as well as 19 other countries.
According to origami purists, there are only two rules to origami construction
1. The folder may use only one square sheet of paper.
2. The paper may not be cut or torn in any way.
Origami A guide for gift ideas edition by FRANCIS NGASSAM Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks
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Origami A guide for gift ideas edition by FRANCIS NGASSAM Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks Reviews
This book has some okay basic projects, but they are generally projects I've seen in plenty of other places. If you are totally new to origami and it doesn't cost you to borrow this book, then I say go for it just for the information that will get you started. But if you are not a beginner, this book isn't really for you. The instructions are good, but I've seen them before.
It does give ideas for gifts, but it doesn't really provide a lot of models of things to make. Just isn't worth paying for it for the ideas part when just leafing though other better books will help you think of things.
Good things - a bit of history complete with references so you can see where the author got the material, some good models.
Bad things - the models are all different sizes as the material was taken from all different online sources; there is some repetition; the images are slightly blurry because they are low resolution; there's a list of occasions where you can use origami and the table of contents links to each item but there is no information about that item so 'Anniversary' links to the word 'Anniversary' but there is no actual content. What origami is good for an anniversary? This book is not going to tell you.
There's enough in here that it might be worth looking at if you really want to but it is not a great book.
The book is ok but it seems a little difficult to get around to the projects. But overall nice projects.
Origami for everyone! I enjoyed the selection, it is a good reference book to keep handy.
Personally, I prefer diagrams to pictures, but everything else is great!
It looks like the directions were copied from various places then pasted together. One model still had the directions in French. Seriously disappointed. Would send it back if I could.
One can never have enough origami books, but this is one one of the most beautiful and practical of all the books I own.
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