Friday, January 31, 2020

Penguin by Takuji Sugimura

I found very little in this book that I wanted to fold (lots of cutting, lots of odd-sized paper). But I thought this penguin was nice.

From Takuji Sugimura's Living Origami.



Thursday, January 30, 2020

Rupert's Baby Rabbit by Thea Clift

From the 1983 Rupert annual (this book, purchased at the Book Lady bookstore, was my souvenir of Savannah). Wikipedia says that John Harrold was the artist for Rupert in the 1980s, but I don't know anything about the designer Thea Clift.


Thursday, January 23, 2020

Dinosaur by Tim Ward and Trev Hatchett

From Vicente Palacios's Papirogami.

For some reason I had trouble following the diagrams. I had to unfold and refold the model three times and I still didn't manage to get it to look like the pictures. It wasn't until I was done and had something that looked vaguely correct that I realized I had put the head where the tail goes and vice versa! But I'll post what I made even though I now see that it's wrong.



Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Spectacles by Dave Brill

From Paul Jackson's The Complete Origami Course.


Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Pig (dollar fold) by Stephen Weiss

From The Friends of the Origami Center of America's Convention 1991: The Annual Collection.


Monday, January 20, 2020

Pigeon by Bill Warner

From Toshie Takahama's Creative Life with Creative Origami, Vol. III.



Saturday, January 18, 2020

Springer spaniel by Samuel Randlett

From Samuel Randlett's The Art of Origami.






Friday, January 17, 2020

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Robin by Joan Homewood

From Robert Harbin's New Adventures in Origami.






Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Child doing handstand by Akira Yoshizawa

From Akira Yoshizawa's Origami Full of Life (Inochi yutaka na origami).



Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Puppy corner fold ("lettermark") by Bob Roos

I'd forgotten that I had this published, but evidently I've also forgotten how I folded it and my diagrams aren't helping. From the April 1988 spring convention program of the British Origami Society.



Monday, January 13, 2020

Kusudama ("Dice" pattern) by Makato Yamaguchi

Made from six squares. From Makato Yamaguchi's Kusudama Ball Origami.



Saturday, January 11, 2020

Linked cranes (Pinwheel pattern) by Rokoan

Made from a sheet of paper with four slits in it. Wings are all connected, beaks are all connected. The pattern is called "kaza guruma," (pinwheel, windmill). Not to be confused with the much easier variation where only the beaks are connected; that one is called "sazanami" and there are multiple websites showing how to make it.

The photo shows a second attempt. The first attempt tore in four different places before I gave up on it.

The following quote is from the website http://www.orizuru49.com/en/ :
Renzuru (literally meaning “consecutive cranes”) is a series of multiple conjoined cranes folded from a single sheet of paper with strategic cuts. The first appearance of renzuru is in a book published in 1797, titled Hiden Senbazuru Orikata (the secret methods of making a thousand conjoined cranes). 
From Otsuka Yurami's The Thousand Cranes of Kuwana City.



Friday, January 10, 2020

Goat (dollar fold) by Janessa Munt?

The "?" is because none of the models in the book are attributed to other folders, but I thought some folds looked like things I'd seen before. From Janessa Munt's Dollar Bill Origami Book.


Thursday, January 9, 2020

Scottie Dog by Bob Neale

This is much simpler than most of the folds I've been posting, but this is special to me because Bob Neale taught it to me in person some time around 1991. I also knew Tom Hull while he was a student at Hampshire College.
From Bob Neale and Tom Hull's Origami Plain and Simple.


Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Lantern by Toyoaki Kawai

Made from eight squares. (Two of the squares have holes cut in the center.) From Toyoaki Kawai's Origami Saijiki ("Origami Yearbook" or "Origami Diary"?), Autumn. (I'm totally unsure of the translation.)


Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Chameleon by Saadya Sternberg

I couldn't figure out the eyes. Look at the photo on Sternberg's web site (http://www.saadya.net/homepage.php) to see how it's supposed to look. From Saadya Sternberg's Sculptural Origami.

Monday, January 6, 2020

Two-piece house with roof by Yoshihide Momotani

Made from one 2x1 rectangle and one square. From Yoshihide Momotani's Origami Architectures




Sunday, January 5, 2020

The Week's Folds (30 Dec 2019–5 Jan 2020)

"Nagamaru box (lid)" by Tomoko Fuse

Google translate says this is a "Nagamaru box"—a box shaped like an athletics track. But I can't find anything online to convince me that this is accurate.

Made from four squares. From Tomoko Fuse's New World Origami 2: hako jiyūjizai ["hako" means "box", "jiyūjizai" means something like "freely."] The subtitle means something like "triangles, hexagons, etc."


Saturday, January 4, 2020

Pheasant by Adolfo Cerceda

From Vicente Palacios's Fascinating Origami



Friday, January 3, 2020

Snail by Akira Yoshizawa

From Akira Yoshizawa's Easy Origami

Thursday, January 2, 2020

Bird Dish by Jonathan Miller

From Creased: Magazine for Paper Folders, issue # 12 (December 2012) [http://www.creased.com/]