I get a lot of questions of how to perform curved folding. People got discouraged when I tell them about cutting machines. However there’s a way to make it by hand, and that’s exactly how I started curved folding. So you can try to make something curvy without any major investments and rare and special …
Here is my quick FAQ about cutting machines published in The Fold. By cutting machines I mean the ones you can use for origami, of course. A lot of things have actually changed since I wrote that. And now I know some more things that cause confusion, because since then I bought a second cutter. And …
I just wanted to leave a quick note about the origami exhibition in Washington D.C.. You can visit it right now. Japan Information and Culture Center hosts the exhibition called “Unfolding the Universe: Math & Science in Origami”. It is open from September 5th to October 27. The origami exhibition is related to World Origami …
If you try finding origami paper online, you will face hundreds of different packs and types of paper. What’s inside? Let’s try to see… First of all there are a lot of subtopics in origami. Different types of origami require different types of paper. What is good for an elephant, might not be good for …
I was asked how I make my origami pictures. Actually, it’s easy to make origami pictures and I am going to share my high-tech with you 🙂 I would be talking about white background photographs that are ready to use for books and any other publishing purposes. I would not cover creative shots when people …
There’s a reason I am writing it. A huge reason. I am seriously thinking about making a T-shirt with ‘don’t tell me how to sell origami please!’ on it. Every second person that learns about my origami skills tries to discuss how I could sell it. If you think that happened after I’ve become a …
People always wonder, where I get that beautiful origami paper. The answer is … I paint it myself. And since I tried so many times before I got good results, I decided to share my technique with you. Below are several examples of what I folded with this type of origami paper. The result paper …
I got my origami exhibition items back. From now on I can honestly call them masterpieces 🙂 They have just returned from a gorgeous exhibition in Chimei museum in Taiwan. The exhibition covered all kinds of origami: from representational to geometric, including fashion items. For me it is the first really serious exhibition. I …
There are many kinds of origami tessellations. Some tessellations are entirely flat, some are 3-dimensional. Only some of the tessellations are made in the way that they don’t have a single straight line in their crease pattern. It may be not clear how to fold this kind of origami. Here are some examples of curved-folded …
I decided to start a blog about origami. Sometimes I have long thoughts to share and I understood that facebook might not be the best place. After all I would like some posts to be easy to find. You are still welcome at flickr with the most recent images. This is intended to have more text …