Re: [Origami] Froebel's folds of beauty

David Mitchell >Part 2 of Mary Gurney's book Kindergarten Practice (see >kindergartenpractice.htm), published some time after 1873 but before 1877, is >probably the best source of information about which Folds of Beauty should be >attributed to Froebel himself. See pictures 1 to 20 of plate X

Re: [Origami] Froebel's folds of beauty

wrote: > I thought they were always folded from a windmill base. If i understood you > correctly, they are also made from a blintz fold? You also use the term > "doubly-blintzed", are you referring to the initial steps to make a fortune > teller or the windmill base? As far as it is possible

Re: [Origami] CFC Monthly Challenge - September 2024

Ilan Garibi wrote: >We limit ourselves to those five bases: the preliminary base, the waterbomb >base, the fish base, the blinz base, and the windmill base (AKA Froebel's >Folds of Beauty). I am not quite sure what Ilan means by (AKA Froebel's Folds of Beauty) and whether the words in bracket

[Origami] Single-sheet cube stands?

wrote: >Do any of you know of any single-sheet cube stand models, prior to Jo >Nakashima's posted on November 4, 2010? I have known that design since at least the late 1980s. It's probably older ... but unfortunately I have no idea who might have first thought of it. Dave

Re: [Origami] Books about paper folding (origami) in English

gera...@neorigami.com> wrote: >The following quote is by David Lister. You can find it here: >https://www.britishorigami.org/cp-lister-list/lillian-oppenheimer . The word >"origami" was also mentioned as the Japanese word for paperfolding in >Robert >Harbin's book, "Paper Magic" in 1956 (...)

[Origami] Books about paper folding (origami) in English from the 1950s

gera...@neorigami.com asked: >Aside from Robert Harbin's Paper Magic from 1956, what other books about paper >folding (origami) in English are there, from the 1950s and before that? You can find details of all known books about paperfolding prior to 1970, in English and other languages, at ht

Re: [Origami] Alice in Wonderland origami, Bodleian Library

Karen Reeds wrote: >Just saw this announcement. If anyone is going to the program, please do let >us know what rabbit model and other ?curious paper creature? was taught. >(Was Lewis Carroll a folder? It seems like origami would have appealed to him. Lewis Carroll was a paperfolder ... but o

Re: [Origami] The Aart of Paperfolding

Most of you know that my substack Life, Death and Paperfolding is written largely about aspects of paperfolding history. I don't post here every time a new blog post is released but just occasionally I like to let you know what's going on. Today I am delighted to tell you that Edwin Corrie has

Re: [Origami] The Workman's Hat

Just thought some of you may be interested in my latest blog post https://davidgrahammitchell.substack.com/p/one-hat-to-fit-them-all I had a great deal of help with this from Matthew Demarkos, who is an expert in all things connected to Lewis Carroll. He has posted a video on the on the You Tub

Re: [Origami] Moving origami model

Andrew Hans wrote: > I remember years ago there was a rather simple model that when folded and > laid down it would rise up as the paper relaxed. In case no-one else has already mentioned it, this design is by Seiryo Takegawa (or Takekawa) and, In English, is usually known as the Magic Tipper

[Origami] Toot, Toot! Life Death and Paperfolding

There are two new posts to read on my Life, Death and paperfolding blog. The first is about the little known traditional design I call the Magic Hat ... which is well worth knowing about. See the-strange-case-of-the-magic-hat

[Origami] Toot Toot - I've started a blog

Just as blogs are going out of fashion I've decided to start one ... 'Life, Death and Paperfolding' will be an occasional blog about, well, life death and paperfolding, but mostly paperfolding, concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on interesting aspects of paperfolding history. There are

Re: [Origami] Box-pleating

Robert Lang indited: >The quoted description from Kenneway is, IMHO, not a very accurate description >of the methods used by Elias (and Hulme, let?s not forget) that we now call >box-pleating. But, if I recall correctly, even Elias didn?t call his >techniques ?box-pleating? ? I think he used t

Re: [Origami] Box-pleating

Under the subject 'Folding Legend and Joisel Award - Join our free event', Ilan Garibi wrote: 'Neal Elias can be considered the creator of the modern box-pleating technique' I think this assertion is worth discussing. According to Eric Kenneway's 'ABC of Origami', BOS booklet 47, box-pleating

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

Gerardo wrote: >There's a reference to folding and music in an essay by Tolstoy titled What is >Art? Wow! What does it mention in regard to both? This needs some clarification: In their article 'Leo Tolstoy and the Art of Origami' in British Origami 186 of October 1997, Misha Litvinov and Serg

Re: [Origami] The Sosaku Origami Group '67

Lorenzo lorenzo.luci...@gmail.com wrote: >The author of this book is a "Creative Origami Group '67". >Do you know anything about this Group? There is a page on my site about this group at David Mitchell's Origami Heaven - History - The Sosaku Origami Group '67<

Re: [Origami] Name of the puzzle purse in Spanish?

Karen Reeds wrote: >You set us all a good example by carefully documenting the names/creators of >models as much as you can, but I have to agree with Dave's pessimistic >conclusion. Pessimistic? Realistic, surely ... It's perhaps worth pointing out that in The Public Paperfolding Project I

[Origami] Name of the puzzle purse in Spanish?

gera...@neorigami.com wrote: >I must confess I linked David's webpage but had not read it... oops Bad boy! I think we must also be careful not to believe that' traditional' designs necessarily had a 'traditional' name. 'La bolsa', for instance, is a title (in Spanish) that only appears once

Re: [Origami] Origami6

Someone has kindly helped me with this now! Many thanks Dave -Original Message- From: David Mitchell Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 9:28 AM To: origami@lists.digitalorigami.com Subject: RE: Origami6 If anyone possesses a copy of Origami6 and would be willing to help me access some info

Re: [Origami] Origami6

If anyone possesses a copy of Origami6 and would be willing to help me access some information from it regarding paperfolding history I would be extremely grateful. Please respond privately. Thanks. Dave

Re: [Origami] 'Modular origami article for Wikipedia'

Thanks to those of you who have contacted me off list about this subject. Here is a first draft of an article which takes into account your suggestions. I would like to add more about the work of Tomoko Fuse, but the difficulty is that she has written so many books and developed so many design

Re: [Origami] 'Modular origami article for Wikipedia'

So ... maybe the first thing to think about is what sections such an article should be divided into. Here are my suggestions. Please offer yours ... Definition: What is modular origami? History: How did modular origami come to be? Forms: What categories of designs can you make using the modula

Re: [Origami] Common paper for friction-based modulars?

Laura R wrote: >I?ll be happy to help editing that Wiki entry. I contribute that way with Wiki >from time to time fixing what my scatologic husband calls Wiki text poop. As >I?m not a modular expert and my English is not perfect, I will need the text >to replace that part. You can communicate

Re: [Origami] Common paper for friction-based modulars?

"gera...@neorigami.com" wrote: >Most boxes and lids also benefit from friction Ah, yes, some modular designs may indeed 'benefit from friction' (and I agree that the Butterfly Ball is a good example of this) but this does not necessarily make them 'friction-based'. The distinction is importa

Re: [Origami] Common paper for friction-based modulars?

"gera...@neorigami.com" wrote: >In his answer, Dave Mitchell asked me to explain what I mean with >"friction-based modulars". >Maybe there's another name for that, but I'm referring to modulars which units >stay together thanks to the friction generated between them. I asked because it's not a

Re: [Origami] Common paper for friction-based modulars?

gerardo(a)neorigami.com asked: >What very common paper in? the origami community do you recommend for >friction-based modulars? Can you explain what a friction-based modular is? Dave

Re: [Origami] . Peter Engel & Xiaoxian Huang, online guest speakers at Museo del Origami

Hi Laura This sounds exciting. You didn't say what language these lectures are in ... Dave

Re: [Origami] early Victorian-era "kirigami" -- LADY CULLUM?S PUZZLE HEARTS

Karen Reeds wrote: > I spotted these lovely examples of cut-paper Woven Hearts in an antiquarian > bookdealer's announcement: >https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Images/Puzzle_Hearts.jpg Hi Karen A date of 1830 seems a little early for these hearts. The one on the lower left, commonly known

Re: [Origami] Help with translating the titles of some traditional Japanese designs

As most of you will know, with a lot of help from a lot of friends, I am attempting to collect and make available on-line as many sources bearing on the history of paperfolding as I can. This information is then being made publicly available as part of the Public Paperfolding History Project whi

Re: [Origami] Sam Randlett

I am wondering if Sam Randlett is still alive ... and if he, is whether anyone is still in communication with him or knows how he could be reached. I haven't heard of his death, so very much hope he is still with us! Dave

Re: [Origami] 1935 book Origami moyo? / by Kawarasaki Kodo cho --

Karen Reeds wrote: >Here's a visual treat: a digitized copy of a beautiful accordion-fold origami >book from 1935, now in the Tress Collection, University of Pennsylvania >Libraries, Philadelphia. The curator, Lynne Farrington, tells me that only a >small part of the collection has been fully

Re: [Origami] Jack J Skillman

Matthew Green wrote: >Ancestry has records for the death of a war veteran named Jack James Skillman >who was born on May 30, 1915, and died on December 12, 1977. That matches your >info. Thank you. Several people drew this to my attention ... and with that date of death I was able to find hi

Re: [Origami] Jack J Skillman

I am trying to improve my page about the paperfolding of Jack J Skillman (https://www.origamiheaven.com/historyjackjskillman.htm) and in particular to find out if anyone knows where and when he died (he was born in 1915 so would now by 107 if he were still alive) and whether, and if so where, an

Re: [Origami] Locust in Kan-no-mado?

Gerardo wrote: >Now I'm wondering if Kasahara named the model "cicada" in Japanese, but was >translated to "locust" in the English-language Creative Origami. Would there >be a way to know? Do any of you know of Japanese diagrams for Kasahara's >model? Was Creative Origami originally in Japanese

[Origami] Locust in Kan-no-mado?

Gerardo asked: >I read in Creative Origami by Kunihiko Kasahara, that his model Locust was >based on the locust in Kan-no-mado. Now, if I'm not wrong, its pages only have >traditional models. But I had never heard of a traditional origami >locust >before. Kasahara's model is somewhat similar