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    Origami 101: Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily through Step-by-Step Instruction
    Origami 101: Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily through Step-by-Step Instruction
    Origami 101: Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily through Step-by-Step Instruction
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    Origami 101: Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily through Step-by-Step Instruction

    By Benjamin John Coleman

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    For the absolute beginner: more than forty amazing folding projects, including models that evolve from one of four basic origami shapes.

    Have you always been intrigued by origami, but often found the diagrams confusing or the models uninspiring? Origami 101 is here to help.

    A revolutionary illustration enhancement called Glow Fold makes the diagrams and video steps easy to understand. With the introduction of every folding symbol, you'll find a detailed sidebar explaining what it means and a symbol index bookmark that guides you to these sidebars whenever you need to be reminded. If you need more help, just go directly to companion online video for any model.

    Just a few of things you'll learn to create:
    • Roosting Robin
    • Flowering Branch
    • Flying Dragon
    • Sea Turtle
    • Tyrannosaurus Rex
    • Tree Ornament
    • Tropical Fish
    • Graceful Swan


    With the help of origami enthusiast Benjamin Coleman, you'll learn how this classic craft can be enjoyed by all ages. Amuse yourself and delight your friends with these captivating folded figures!

    "The glow-fold technique will be a valuable aid to paper folders of all levels who are learning a new model through diagrams." —Vanessa Gould, director of the Peabody Award‚Äìwinning documentary Between the Folds
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 21, 2018
    ISBN9781631596568
    Origami 101: Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily through Step-by-Step Instruction

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      Origami 101This book is big. And Full. It is intended for novices wanting to learn the Japanese art of paper folding. Very little would be helpful to those already versed in the art. This book takes a different direction when teaching origami. First off the book does not start with a glossary of various folding symbols and what they mean. They instead put these in special boxes or pages and teach that fold when it is needed in a specific design. It also uses color to help a novice differentiate various instructions and paper direction. The book says there is an accompanying DVD which should even more useful. Having read (but never conquered) many origami book, I can say that this one is different. Is that a good thing, I don’t know. It depends on the learner. But I do think this is an excellent book to try.

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    Origami 101 - Benjamin John Coleman

    Origami 101

    Look, Learn & Create

    Origami 101

    A WORKSHOP IN A BOOK

    CONTENTS

    Introduction

    The Kite Shape

    Folding the Kite Shape

    Folding the Penguin

    Folding the Broad Leaf

    Folding the Loon

    Folding the Roosting Robin

    Folding the Tropical Fish

    Folding the Parakeet

    Folding the Peacock

    Folding the Baby Seal

    Folding the Chick

    Folding the Simple Swan

    Folding the Sitting Dragon

    Folding the Snail

    Folding the Graceful Swan

    The Collapsed Square

    Folding the Collapsed Square

    Folding the Crocus

    Folding the Rambunctious Dog

    Folding the Eight-Pointed Star

    Folding the Ornamental Box

    Folding the Tree Ornament

    Folding the Flowering Branch

    Folding the Fractal Geometric 1

    Folding the Pigeon

    Folding the Scary Bat

    Folding the Lily

    The Basic Form

    Folding the Basic Form

    Folding the Flying Crane

    Folding the Sitting Crane

    Folding the Old Crow

    Folding the Sea Lion

    Folding the Silly Goose

    Folding the Rooster

    Folding the Flamingo

    Folding the Mosquito

    Folding the Sea Gull

    Folding the Flying Dragon

    Folding the Tyrannosaurus Rex

    The Collapsed Triangle

    Folding the Collapsed Triangle

    Folding the Frog

    Folding the Rock Lobster

    Folding the Hermit Crab

    Folding the Three-Legged Gecko

    Folding the Sea Turtle

    Folding the Brown Bear

    Folding the Hungry Fawn

    Folding the Fractal Geometric 2

    Folding the Human Being

    Symbol Index

    Introduction

    Origami literally means fold paper in Japanese. Ori means fold and gami, or kami in Japanese, means paper. The art form was started in China and then brought to Japan where it became quite popular by 1614.

    Traditional origami is performed on a square that is colored on one side. There is no tearing or cutting allowed.

    Origami folding patterns have been used in the design of spacecraft parts since the 1980s when Koryo Miura’s origami-based solar panels flew on a Japanese rocket.

    A mass-produced origami folding pattern is as close to you as the air bag in your car. The first mass-produced origami flower was introduced in 2010 by the author of this book.

    Origami is increasingly used in engineering consumer products. Cellular phones with self-folding antennae for better reception and microchips that automatically reconfigure themselves through folding are likely under development.

    One newer origami technique is called crumple folding, where the paper is crumpled rather than folded. This has led to highly complex paper models that cannot be repeated exactly.

    Origami has moved beyond traditional squares. The flowers on this page were made with a star shape, which is then folded using an origami pattern, but a glass cutter is used to impress the folds on the paper first.

    How to Use This Book

    This book was designed by an origami enthusiast to teach those unfamiliar with origami how to fold. Directions for folding origami figures always include symbols, and the key to success is learning what these symbols mean and how to execute them. Rather than create a long introductory chapter consisting of folding symbols and their descriptions, folding symbols are explained as they are encountered. Each folding symbol is explained in a blue box near the step where it is introduced in a pattern. This gives you immediate explanation of a new symbol. Detailed photographs help you along the way. You will find a Symbol Index Bookmark at the back of the book, which shows the folding symbols and the page numbers where they are explained. You can cut out one bookmark to mark pages while you fold and keep the other one in the book for quick reference. Whenever you don’t remember what a symbol means, just flip to the Symbol Index and turn to the page indicated.

    New Symbol: Glow and Afterglow

    Symbol Icon

    Learning a three-dimensional art form like origami from a two-dimensional page isn’t easy. One of the advances you will find in the diagrams in this book is called glowfold. Glowfold tells you what surface is going to move during a fold and where it went after it was folded.

    A surface that is about to be folded will glow with a red hue on top of it. In the diagram that follows, you will see afterglow. This afterglow not only tells you what surface moved, but it also tells you where the open edges should be and how to confirm the orientation of your paper. The afterglow will only be present in the step immediately following a step where glow was present. Here is an example of how it works:

    1. A square is being folded in half horizontally. The surface that will move glows.

    2. After folding, glow escapes from the open edges. Notice that glow does not escape from the folded edge.

    New Symbol: Fold

    Symbol Icon

    The fold symbol consists of a purple arc with an arrowhead on one end and a circle on the other. A green dashed (or occasionally a red dotted and dashed) line will appear underneath and perpendicular to it. This is probably the most common, powerful, and easy-to-master symbol in origami.

    It is important that you learn the proper way to make a fold. The quality of your finished origami model is directly related to your ability to align the paper and then impress the fold into it. Every fold you make should conform to the following steps:

    1. Figure out what the diagram is telling you. This diagram tells us to fold the paper in half horizontally, bottom to top.

    2. Reorient your square so making the fold is as comfortable and easy as possible. In this case, to precisely align the edges, I rotate the square 90 degrees before folding it.

    3. Lift the area to be folded off the work surface.

    4. Align the edge, curling the area to be folded. Hold the aligned edge in place for the remainder of these steps.

    5. Gently push down the area along what will become the fold line.

    6. Carefully align the edge. Once aligned, use one hand to hold the edge securely while you…

    7. …slide your finger down the length of the fold.

    8. To sharpen the fold, slide your fingernail along the length of it.

    This is what this sequence will look like in folding diagrams in this book:

    1. Fold the square in half horizontally.

    2. Your model should look like this. Notice the afterglow around the left, right, and top edges. These are open edges, as opposed to the bottom edge, which is closed by the fold I just made.

    New Symbol: Flip

    Symbol Icon

    The difficulty expressed by the graph (pictured at left) is a little bit misleading. While flipping your paper is among the easiest things you will ever do, the flip symbol is the most commonly overlooked symbol in origami. If your model suddenly bears little resemblance to what you see in a diagram, go back and review the last few steps. You may have missed the flip symbol. Make a mental note to notice these symbols!

    1. Flip your paper.

    2. Your paper should look like this.

    Making Practice Paper

    It is easy to make practice paper once you know how to do it. You should always use practice paper when attempting a new model. Practice paper is inexpensive, so if you make a mistake it won’t bother you too much. I use regular 8¹/2 × 11 inch (European size A4) printer paper.

    1Fold a piece of printer paper in half.

    2Fold the upper left-hand corner of the top layer of paper diagonally down to the fold you made in Step 1.

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