Origami: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Making Animals, Flowers, Planes, Boats, and More

by Norio Torimoto, Yukiko Duke

From playful animals to delicate flowers and fun paper airplanes, this origami guide has projects that will delight both children and adults. With words, illustrations, and more than 300 photographs, even the most complicated of folds and manipulations are made simple by this book’s easy-to-follow instructions. Master Norio Torimoto takes the mystery out of the art of paper folding by teaching readers the proper mindset behind the art and the basic formations that are the foundation for all his projects.

Genres: Origami, Crafts

144 pages, Hardcover

First published June 15, 2012

Reviews

[Tania · Rating 3 out of 5]

Creo que, pese a no ser canónicas, las explicaciones esquemáticas de muchas de las figuras están mejor explicadas que con las indicaciones habituales, pero a veces acaba farragoso y complicado leerlas (algunas parecen tachadas de tantas líneas).
La parte explicativa de cómo hacer algunos kirigami (que no se suele encontrar) u origami para poner los palillos me ha gustado por la novedad, pero creo que intentar en un mismo libro enseñar a legos en la materia (enseñar las bases, una grulla, formas clásicas y básicas) y a casi maestros (formas en las que se requieren tres hojas de papel y más de 50 pliegues distintos)... bueno, creo que no encaja demasiado.

[Pinky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Learn how to craft origami dinosaurs, witches, angels and more with step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

accessed in 2014 ("read" is too strong a word)

There are lots of really fascinating designs in this. I used the design for the paper airplane and it's a great one - if you throw it correctly, it looks back to you like a boomerang!

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Origami is a Japanese artform that is inexpensive to take part in. This book is an instruction manual that covers the basic folding techniques used and builds on them. There are many detailed and illustrated step by step instructions for numerous items for all age groups.