[Origami] Does Origami-Instructions.com ask for authorization?

[Gerardo @neorigami.com]

Hello everyone.

Do you know if Origami-Instructions.com ask for authorization from the
creators to show how to fold their models? I don't want to recommend the
website to others if it doesn't, so it's important to me.

As usual, you can reply through the list if you wish, or to my email
address directly if you prefer: gerardo(a)neorigami.com


Thank you in advance.

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Re: [Origami] Magazine cover box origins

[David Mitchell]

jens-helge.dah...@gmx.de wrote:

>The Magazine Cover Box did not appear in 'Das Lustiges Papierfaltbuechlein' by 
>Johanna Huber. Most of the issues of this book are in my hands. 

How curious! It's in the 'translation' see 
https://archive.org/details/easyfunpaperfold00hube/page/66/mode/2up

>But you found the folding instruction in "Handbuechlein der Papierfaltekunst." 
>by Joseph Sperl, published in 1904 on page 18 (or 1920 edition on the same 
>page).

Thank you for this. I'll try to look it up!

Dave

Re: [Origami] Now Novelty Purse

[David Mitchell]

Michel Grand has pointed out to me that diagrams are also in the book 'Noshi' 
by Isao Honda, published, I think in 1964, where he calls it a Tortoise-Shell 
(because it is kind of hexagonal in shape).

Honda says nothing about its origin.

I thought at first this settled the matter and that it was therefore not by 
Yoshizawa. Then I remembered the dreaded Honda / Yoshizawa controversy which, 
as far as I know, has never been successfully resolved.

Nothing is ever simple ...

Dave

Re: [Origami] Now Novelty Purse

[Papirfoldning.dk]

> On 11 Jul 2021, at 19.37, David Mitchell  
> wrote:
> 
> Michel Grand has pointed out to me that diagrams are also in the book 
> 'Noshi' by Isao Honda, published, I think in 1964, where he calls it a 
> Tortoise-Shell (because it is kind of hexagonal in shape).
Yes, my copy says "First print July 1964", and the Tortoise-Shell is number 17, 
page 44. 
> Honda says nothing about its origin.
The book declares it has "20 two-color classic ORIGAMI diagrams, 11 Origami 
patterns, folded crepe paper, and full directions for making NOSHI, plus an 
actual sample".

I would read this as if the design number 17 (which is two-color and has a 
number less than 20) is classic origami for sure, at least in Honda's opinion.

> I thought at first this settled the matter and that it was therefore not by 
> Yoshizawa. Then I remembered the dreaded Honda / Yoshizawa controversy which, 
> as far as I know, has never been successfully resolved.
> 
> Nothing is ever simple ...
Indeed. The more so that Yoshizawa is not careful about pointing out which 
designs are his, and his books have several models that clearly are not his, 
but simple, traditional models. The same goes for Honda who often will state if 
a model is classic, but seldom, if ever, clearly states if a design is his.

A model does not become "Yoshizawa" just because somebody learned the model 
from that source or because it occurs in a book of his.

I would continue as if the model is public domain and call it "traditional" in 
the meaning of this word: "old, widespread (it occurs in several places), and 
of unknown origins".

As "old" is a relative word, new traditional models a bound to occur over time.

Regards,
Hans