Setting the Crease
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I am Peter (wonko) Whitehouse. I have been folding Origami since first introduced to it as an 11 year old who was entertaining a house guest at the time. Always on the look out for new designs, this blog will hopefully capture some interesting models. Key models discussed are animal, blarg, domestic, plant, and geometry.
Setting the Crease
1w ago
At any moment, I have a half-dozen Tanteidan magazines, from my subscription to the Japanese Origami Society, on my chair-side table yet to be filed: Flicking through them, it is impossible not to be intrigued by the challenges, fold tidbits, crease patterns and full diagram sequences. Sadly, I contrast it to British Origami Society Magazine ..read more
Setting the Crease
1w ago
Working on an Australian Wildlife series, naturally I had to include Satoshi Kamiya’s lovely Green Tree Frog: I had a day-glow lime green sheet of Hanji in my stash, gifted to me from a collegue who brought it back from Seoul a few years back. I decided I wanted to treat it and colour it ..read more
Setting the Crease
2w ago
As part of an Aussie animal series, it would be wrong to not include a Kangaroo: The best Origami Kangaroos are designed by Gen Hagiwara – this is Gen’s 2013 design, a lovely mother ‘roo with a joey in her pouch. Fortunately it featured in Tanteidan Magazine #147 – part of my growing collection of ..read more
Setting the Crease
2w ago
There are only a few origami figures I MUST have in my collection – Steven Casey’s “Echidna” is one of these: This adorable little monotreme is covered in one of my favourite square-grid tessellations, but skillfully crafted to allow all the other body bits to be where they need to. I bought the British Origami ..read more
Setting the Crease
2w ago
One of the few applications of the Miura-Ori (map fold) that I can tolerate folding is to make the fantail of Satoshi Kamiya’s Lyrebird. I had a half-sheet of leaflitter paper in my stash (bought some 8 years ago) and thought it fitting to fold a bird that lives in the leaflitter out of it ..read more
Setting the Crease
3w ago
Browsing a Korean Origami Convention book (the 6th – 2015), as you do, I stumbled across a Platypus I had not seen before: Designed by Fernando Gilgado, this genius design uses duo paper to isolate the beak, tail and legs from the body in a really interesting way. After some simple pre-creasing, you collapse to ..read more
Setting the Crease
1M ago
There were many standouts from the epic Origami World Marathon (OWM5), the rabbit taught by Riccardo Foschi was one such: So much character teased from a 16×16 grid, this delicious comic rabbit stands on its own and is dry-shaped, without the need for any glue or MC. My first fold used Tant paper, and was ..read more
Setting the Crease
1M ago
As a closet botanist, I am interested in floral geometry – many flowers are based on pentagons: This is “Star Katrina”, a beautiful kusudama designed by Xander Perrott. Folded from 30 x 2:root 3 rectangles cleaved from squares of Tuttle Indigo dye duo paper over the last couple of days. The unit is based on ..read more
Setting the Crease
1M ago
As far as I can tell, NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are dumb: On this blog, NFTs stand for “Newly Folded Things”, but in the imaginary world of cryptocurrency and blockchain, NFTs were going to be the next big thing. …until they were linked to money laundering, and people buying them realised that all they were actually ..read more
Setting the Crease
1M ago
My annual origami display at Holland Park Library was installed this morning: Included is a broad range of origami styles from a huge and diverse collection of designers, folded from a varied collection of papers. I am trying to get better at not crowding the display cabinets – sometimes less is more to allow individual ..read more