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Ready to take your origami to the next level? Fold innovative and original origami projects with this fun new ebook. This collection of origami projects features models that use fewer folds to produce clever forms rivaling complex constructions that would normally stump a beginner. Many of the models presented in this origami ebook use only simple mountain and valley folds, following the "Pureland" origami system pioneered by English artist John Smith....
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Fold stunning geometric sculptures. From the Origamido Studio and word renowned origami artists Michael G. LaFosse and Richard H. Alexander, comes the paper craft eBook Modular Origami Paper Pack. In this modern form of amazing 3D origami design, modular origami is the art and technique of folding multiple sheets of paper and then combining and interlocking them to create a larger composite geometric model the results are truly astounding!
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This collection teaches you how to fold 37 original origami stars, each from a single square sheet of paper. Great care has been, taken to keep each folding sequence elegant. The models are amazing and striking, are enjoyable to fold, and can be used as awards and decorations, and on festive, occasions.
This second edition is in full color. Several stars use both sides of the paper to highlight interesting color patterns. Duo origami paper, which...
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Fun and Simple Origami teaches you how to fold a large collection of easy models. This edition in full color adds life to this amazing art. Many models are traditional and a few are, created by John Montroll. Clear step-by-step instructions show how to fold 101 models in chapters of birds, fish, animals, boats, boxes, hats, and more. Models include a Flying Bird, Chinese Fishing Boat, Pagoda, Fancy Box, Kimonos, King's Crown, and many other favorites.
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Explore the link between paperfolding and mathematics with this unique, well-illustrated guide to creating a world of multifaceted wonders that draws on elements of crystallography. Photographs, diagrams, and charts show how to apply mathematical principles to the origami waterbomb base to create geodesic forms. Detailed instructions, clear diagrams.
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Award winning artists show how to fold their most remarkable creations in Extraordinary Origami. This book features 20 outstanding showpieces from contemporary American Grand Masters, including Neal Elias, Peter Engel, Michael LaFosse, Robert J. Lang, Jeremy Shafer, and more. Intermediate and advanced origami practitioners will discover how to create impressive paper folding sculptures ranging from frogs, bees, butterflies, and blackbirds to a giant...
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The sky's the limit for papercrafters who want to take the next step with their art. Here are thirty-two origami models that really fly! A new spin on an ancient Japanese craft, action origami is simple enough for beginners, yet sophisticated enough to delight experienced folders. Plus, there's no cutting, gluing, or taping required-all you need is paper and a little patience and you're ready for takeoff! For centuries-since paper was first invented...
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Origami Sculptures brings stunning detail and realism to paper folding. John Montroll, a world-renowned master of origami, teaches you how to fold beautiful masterpieces, each from a single square sheet of paper. Birds, dogs, mammals, and insects are shown, and a number of the models include the Dog Base and Insect Base, from which a variety of creatures can be folded. Several of the models are folded using innovative techniques to bring out the subject's...
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Make simple and fun paper craft models with this easy origami eBook. The ancient art of origami originated in Japan, where it is steeped in traditional values. The 20 models presented include many with strong symbolic meanings, such as the carp, the frog and the crane, which symbolize longevity, good luck and perseverance. Also included are paper models which have practical uses, such as a bag in which to store spices or powdered medications, the...
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Pop, fold and fly sturdy paper airplanes with this easy origami eBook. Origami author Andrew Dewar rediscovered his childhood love of paper airplanes in Japan working with Yasuaki Ninomiya (creator of the famous White Wings planes). His designs are incredibly easy to assemble and his book not only explains how to make the origami planes, but how to tune them for better performance. He also gives tips on designing your own paper airplane models. All...
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Whether or not you're familiar with traditional origami models, you're sure to be captivated by the fun and fascination of creating abstract geometric forms. This book by an expert paperfolder offers a clear, concise introduction to the special techniques for making beautiful, complex polyhedra models. These 17 projects are based on the classic Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. Folders at every...
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Experienced origami enthusiasts can explore new dimensions of this ancient art with sixteen unusual models that promise to please even the most particular paperfolders. Ranging in difficulty from intermediate to advanced, the projects include such creatures as a hammerhead shark, vampire bat, crocodile, rabbit, ghost bride, demon, chameleon, Brahma bull, polar bear, Komodo dragon, and Gila monster, plus a tank, sword, motorcycle, and more. Each one...
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Fold and fire aerodynamic paper airplanes dozens of feet into the air with this easy origami ebook. High Performance Paper Airplanes presents a collection of realistic origami paper airplanes from well-known author and paper aviation expert Andrew Dewar. Dewar has spent decades perfecting the art of folding easy paper airplanes that both look great and fly well. This new series takes paper airplanes to new heights-literally! The planes can be fired...
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Have you ever had the urge to create a frog out of a plain sheet of paper? How about a sea serpent, an elephant, an angelfish, or even a chess set? With this fun and easy-to-use primer, you can make such origami animals and projects come magically to life. Renowned paperfolder Robert Neale and his coauthor, Thomas Hull, present thirty original models, perfect for absolute beginners as well as more seasoned paperfolders looking for fresh, fun projects.
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The last secret of the Cold War can finally be revealed: behind the Iron Curtain, people were folding! Communities of folders who were isolated from the origami establishment have always developed exciting new origami models. Russian Origami is full of such exciting projects.
From a matrioshka doll to a space rocket, these models will delight and inspire both beginning and advanced folders. Each project has step-by-step diagrams, clear instructions,...
78) Modern Origami
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Clear instructions, diagrams, drawings, and photographs help you complete over 60 fascinating projects - from the relatively simple four-point star, water lily, and sitting crane to the more complex ballet dancer, Egyptian cat, and dachshund. Challenging subjects for intermediate and advanced paperfolders. Over 500 black-and-white illustrations. New Preface by author.
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Innovative, stimulating and challenging book combines the art of paperfolding with making polyhedra-based models. Projects range from the relatively simple cube and tetrahedron to such mind-boggling fabrications as the double pentagonal pyramid and the truncated hexadecahedron. Instructions and diagrams included.
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This compact origami eBook contains everything you need to create beautiful, geometric origami sculptures. Art and math intertwine in exciting and complex new ways in Geometric Origami eBook. World renowned origami artists Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander bring you this paper craft kit where folding a piece of paper creates a new and wondrous origami object. In Geometric Origami, the initial folds are easily created, but once the basic...
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