Origamiancy

Wizard (Design by Hojyo Takashi)

March 13, 2016 Human forms and Objects

This is a design I started folding three weekends ago and completed today, folding about 2-3 hours each weekend. I have folded this model before using Kami paper and I wanted to try it again using a better variety of paper. My first thought was to go for a duo colored tissue foil paper however, […]

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Star Sonobe (Design by Maria Sinayskaya)

November 25, 2015 Instructional Videos

I moved to Brussels, Belgium on work recently and I experienced for the first time a complete lockdown of an entire city. I was amazed at the residents’ response to the tense situation with the kittens and messages on social media. It was a nice gesture to keep people’s minds off the tension and goings […]

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La Roue de la Fortune (Design by Ancella Simoes)

November 7, 2015 Modular & Geometric

This is a new model, the design for which I came up with quite by accident, a few weekends ago. It is quite simple to fold and in order to get the alternating color effect, I used sheets of paper which are single side colored (the other side is white). In all, I used 10 […]

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Mondrian Cube (Design by David Mitchell)

July 26, 2015 Instructional Videos

Leya Torres of OrigamiSpirit.com posted this rather lovely model a few days ago and I could not resist trying it out this weekend. It is a design by David Mitchell, based on the famous Piet Mondrian painting and with the correct choice of colored paper to fold, one can achieve the same effect. Leyla demonstrates […]

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Icosahedron Sonobe (Design by Tomoko Fuse)

May 23, 2015 Instructional Videos

I’m back to folding this summer, and I started out with a modular design from our favorite – Tomoko Fuse. Her designs are always interesting and with the right color combinations in paper, one can fold pretty kusudama. For this particular design, it takes about 3 hours to fold and assemble at moderate pace. The […]