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Welcome to /po/! We specialize in origami, papercraft, and everything that’s relevant to paper engineering. This board is also an great library of relevant PDF books and instructions, one of the best resource of its kind on the internet.

Questions and discussions of papercraft and origami are welcome. Threads for topics covered by paper engineering in general are also welcome, such as kirigami, bookbinding, printing technology, sticker making, gift boxes, greeting cards, and more.

Requesting is permitted, even encouraged if it’s a good request; fulfilled requests strengthens this board’s role as a repository of books and instructions. However do try to keep requests in relevant threads, if you can.

/po/ is a slow board! Do not needlessly bump threads.
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Hints and tips?

For folding, The best advice is to always fold as cleanly as possible, and take your time. Everything else comes with experience.

https://origami.me/beginners-guide/
https://origamiusa.org/glossary

What are ‘CPs’?

Crease patterns are a structural representations of origami models, shown as a schematic of lines; they are essentially origami models unfolded and laid flat. Lines on a crease pattern may be indicated by ‘mountain’ or ‘valley’ folds to show how the folds alternate. If you’re particularly skilled at origami, they become useful instructions for building models. A common base fold is usually discernable, all the intermediate details can be worked on from there.

https://blog.giladnaor.com/2008/08/folding-from-crease-patterns.html
http://www.origamiaustria.at/articles.php?lang=2#a4

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I just finished this model and I realized a few things: always print your models using inkjet, not laser because the laser toner cracks when you fold it and white lines show up. also, never use liquid super glue on thin paper because it bleeds terribly. i only use gel super glue because its thicker and spreads evenly
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>>628114 (OP)
miku: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BHVIkVbZlejivty1fIu4R3LYJgcojuNN
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Looks cute. Nice work!
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>>628114 (OP)
Great job! Thanks for posting!

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Hello guys, what happens?
I would like you to help me choose a good role of origami, I want to raise my level (Very complex figures) and do complex things but here in Colombia it is impossible to find good quality or special role for origami.
A friend in the USA will soon come and can bring me paper. I want to know which one should buy according to my needs.

I will put options that I have in mind. My friend is in Florida.
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De los de la foto, te recomiendo el #7, el #3 y el tant (#1).
¿Has utilizado alguna vez algún papel "especial"? ¿Cuál ha sido el modelo más complejo que has plegado? Porque también depende mucho de esto anterior. Pues, por ejemplo, estos papeles no te servirían para plegar modelos complejos o muy complejos, como los de Shuki Kato o Kamiya (tal vez solo para practicar), pues el papel se va desgastando y "lastimando".
Te recomiendo mejor, buscar "duo thai", Unryu (mulberry), shadow fold, alios kraft, tissue foil, hanji, satogami, momigami... Papeles de preferencia, artesanales hechos a mano, como los de la. Tiemds de Nicolas Terry o Pham Hoang Tuan.
Si te puedo ayudar en algo más, escríbeme a arellanoarturo636(arroba)gmail.com
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>>628117 (OP)
Make your own paper.
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You should try making "double tissue" with regular tissue paper and wallpaper paste (or pure methyl cellulose if you can get it). There's lots of different techniques for making it, and shouldn't be hard to find video tutorials.

For fancier stuff, I'm not too sure what's around in Colombia but you could look for mulberry fiber papers at art supply stores. You can make those kinds of papers fold very nicely if you treat them with methyl cellulose or wallpaper paste (the same way as you make double tissue).

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If so could I please have it

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I've looked everywhere and can't find anything the artist is called Ingrid Siliakus she does some cool stuff but wondering if she had any templates or does she keep this stuff secret?
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Probably one of the harder things I have done. The Westminster Abbey I have the diagram some where
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Another angle
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>>547093 (OP)
Can't believe this thread is 9 years old.
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RIP to the old pinned posts on all the boards. since they died, this thread is the oldest thread on 4chan now. good job

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Welcome, this is a SHARING thread, where you request and share single diagrams (preferably). And I would like to encourage sharing this mockingbird.
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>>627772
I have this if you haven't got it already. Does anyone know where to get a digital version of Ori Fancy 6? I can only find the hardcover copy for sale.
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>>628096
Or just the bone dragon cp and photodiagram, that'd be enough.
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>>627772
can you share baby croco?
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>>628104
I can post the cat. If someone could post the bone dragon and baby croco, that'd be nice too.
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>>628112
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eHsbAS4NFoGJghSIVe4h7FyZKLp0mSoa/view?usp=sharing

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Hello!
I currently have a group dedicated to finding and posting Origami books on Discord. do you want join?
Invitation link: https://discord.gg/JC65pEeN
If you have any doubts, below is a book "as a gift for you" (but the maximum allowed file is only 8 mb)
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Anyone1 know Comic origami 3, Otm 209,10

Or any Disco, Irc or any other place for em. TYVM
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>>627487
If you can send Ori Fancy 6, I'll send OTM 210
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I already got em bro
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>>628094
Fair enough
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If you can help find NOA Magazine no. 50 with the fish on the cover, that would would be great.

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What is your favourite thing to make?
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>>627998
idk how swans come easy to you guys, its like the hardest thing for me to learn it never comes out correctly
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>>623792 (OP)

Crucifixes.
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Don't know if this counts because it is only 1D folding
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>>623792 (OP)
>Paper swans, it's muscle memory at this point.

I used to have a pile of them on my desk.
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>>623797
frogs hell yeah. at my wagie job I used to make frogs out of receipt paper all day

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Are there any examples of origami being used in science besides NASA solarpanels?
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>>623910 (OP)
https://youtu.be/97t7Xj_iBv0?si=Nt1AGDB6iJFn2kt8 [Embed]
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>>623910 (OP)
Sheet metal folding.
Bellows/accordion.
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>>627529
love me some compliant mechanisms, these live in a shop window nearby they are very good i think

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My stuff

Say nice things about it
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bottom left edgelord is paper?
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>>625519 (OP)
>>625524
these are so cool!! love them
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>>627946
black rock shooter is paper
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Is the blue worm on the right from lodoss on dreamcast?
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Is there a tutorial on how these are supposed to be folded im having a hard time

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Spot the differences!
(hint: it's really just a color change ;o)

Get the parts and instructioins to build your own free papercraft LEGO minifigs (and lots more!) from my papercraft webpage:
https://ninjatoes.wordpress.com/

Have fun building!
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Not one new papercraft Tomb Raider vignette in 2024... :o( For 2025 it will be fixed with not one but basically two new papercraft models with this Abominable Snowman Vignette! Have fun building: https://ninjatoes.com/2025/05/11/tomb-raider-2-abominable-snowman-vignette/
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Nice papercraft you got going here anon, it looks good! :)
I have always found papercraft and origami intriguing, but I have never really committed to making something outside napkin birds
What would you recommend for someone new to the hobby?
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>>627640
Basically, choose a papercraft you like! Papercraft is fun but like everything you start it takes time, and by choosing one you like means you'll do your best to actually finish it (making a papercraft you won't finish because it's too hard/time consuming is really no fun at all ;o). There are lots of free papercrafts you can choose and I think that's why most people like to choose a simple paper toy to start with. So most importantly I think is: have fun! ;o)
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>>625190 (OP)
Ey! I have that figure on the right
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>>628105
That was the Imperial Armada replacement for the blue Imperial Soldier one on the left. They had to think of all kinds of "unofficial" adventures (that was long before Pirates of the Caribbean, like they had the Forestman instead of Robin Hood).
I think it was fun to just make your own unofficial adventures instead of remaking official copyrighted movie and game adventures that you can do now, but it's also very fun to remake the movie adventures nowadays! :o)

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So I am tea dyeing and then baking paper to get a nice distressed look. I want to bind it with some this twine to keep a rustic look, but I am worried I will just keep ripping it.

Pic related is my test leaf I made from my over cooked pieces. End of the day this is a prop for a table top RPG, so it will need to be strong enough to stand up to handling.

Anyways anyone here ever worked with distressed paper or hand bound books? Any help would be great.
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>>628101 (OP)
The plan for the book I am making is 5 leafs of 5 sheets for 100 pages, a protective sheet at both ends... Eventually I will figure out a cover but that isn't really a paper issue though idk how to attach it so it might be paper related.

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From the Edo, Meiji or Taisho periods. Here my own attempts at paper models from over 200 years ago.
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>>624721
So I found them on collections.mfa.org. The website is pretty garbage and laggy and hard to navigate.
Fuck this shit.
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this is cool
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>>624686 (OP)
This thread made my day. Thanks anons.
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>>624686 (OP)
It's like glimpsing at another era.
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>>624686 (OP)
very nice

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I got this action figure used for cheap. He was missing his vest so I made him one out of orange cardstock and rubber cement. It's a very amateurish job but I am still proud of it
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>>627821 (OP)
He looks so cool, great work.
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>>627899
>>627890
Thanks guys
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>>627821 (OP)
Very nifty, it worked out great Anon.
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Not an origami person but I respect the craftsmanship, sick vest!
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Looks great.

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Origami paper is pretty much out of my reach.
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>>626616 (OP)
I always enter this board by mistake
But never regret it.
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See if you can get a roll of parchment paper at a grocery store (the stuff people use for baking -- not the waxed paper stuff), it's pretty cheap, easy to get, and you can cut big squares from it.

Also some wrapping paper can work pretty well, but it's kinda hard to tell which ones are nice for origami without opening up the roll and testing it
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I have this problem as well living in Ausfalia.
It'll cost a shit ton to import decent paper.
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Hijacking this thread to ask a question

I'm working on the gear heart paperwork and the instructions say this about what paper to use

16 pieces of 0.25 mm-thick A-4 size (210 x 297) paper.
(The original gear’s heart is using Lesac 66 in red, with weight of 175 kg.

what is that in gsm? Is Lesac 66 a thing you can buy? the pictures seem to be normalish paper but I'm not sure
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>>628077
Gsm is grams per square meter. It is basically the thickness of the paper. The weight of the paper is how stiff it is. I think at 175 kg it starts to be cardboard


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