Complete Origami: An A-Z Facts and Folds, with Step-By-Step Instructions for Over 100 Projects

by Eric Kenneway

Book Overview

Complete Origami is a unique collection of do-it-yourself arts and crafts projects supplemented with origami facts, anecdotes, and techniques. Featuring more than 300 step-by-step diagrams and easy-to-follow instructions on both simple and easy origami to more complex projects, children and adults will learn to create a variety of things--from decorative flowers and cocktail umbrellas to castles, jack-in-the-box toys, and hats and other costume accessories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312008988
• ISBN13: 9780312008987
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

An reference rather than a book of diagrams

If you're looking for nice models to fold, this is not the book you'll want. Instead, if you have some experience with folding and would like to understand the more advanced books and articles you may find on the Internet, you will appreciate the information provided by Complete Origami. As a glossary, it defines most words and concepts of Origami, and the projects complement nicely the definitions.

The best detailed Origami book.

This book is very simple to understand and that is the reason why I recommend it. I am not good at Origami but with this book I was able to create several designs due to the clear explanations. I think you will enjoy it too!

What else do you need?

This book show us all faces of origami.Origami, it's to fold a sheet of paper, but it's also to fold a napkin,an handkerchief.... The projects are very good explained and not too difficult. I regretted just that the diagrams are yellow light-yellow dark! Mr Kenneway intoduce me to kusudama, pictorial origami, playground folds, pure origami,trouble witt, umbrellas... The book is full of stories , anecdotes followed by examples. We'll loved more examples! In short, an unique book . The autor wrote about bangers, bases, boats, box pleating, butterflies, catalogue folding, chaperaugraphy, chinese tradition, corner fasteners, cross pleating, enveloppe folding, fans, flexagons, flowers, foil, frogs, handkerchiefs folding (banana, bow and mouse), hats, headscarf folding, itajime-shibori (tie-dyeing), kasene-origami (layered paperfolding), kirikomi (incised origami), kites, knots, koi-nobori, laminating paper, lampshades, laundry folding, leaf folding, map folding, modular origami, money folding, multi-piece models, napkin folding (mitre, fan, buffet server), nappy folding, newspaper folding, no-sew cushion covers, noshi, picture frame, puzzles, sembazuru (thousand cranes), small-scale models, sound-producing origami, stars, stretching, ticket folding, tissue folding, triangles, twist folding...

Most Complete Origami Book Ever

The author spent a lifetime researching origami and it shows. All the jargon, and that of related fields, is explained in this book. Not only do you get a wealth of models to fold but all the background to the subject filled in. Teachers - this is the only publication to set you up in a major way.

A really complete Origami book.

Defining all basic terms and procedures that will be used throughout the book from the very beginning, it is recommended for beginners and for anyone who has already some background in Origami. It is very detailed, choosing a set of symbols (solid arrows, hollow arrows, dotted lines, dashed lines, looped arrows and so on) so that once you learn it, everything else gets easier. A group of procedures is also explained, so that later explanations just refer to these, without explaining everything again. It is really a fine edition, done by someone who really loves Origami, including some Origami traditions, anecdotes, facts and techniques that you will find in yellow windows all over (it is a very cultural book, showing, for example, the different meanings of creasing cards, origin of words and concepts), colorful, beautiful pictures and a lot of projects, of course. Some examples: airplanes, boats, booklet, jack-in-the-box, butterflies, Chinese funerary and celebratory offering, cup, fans, flexagons, flowers, frogs, banana, mouse, hats, antelope, spider, kites, knots, mobiles, multi-piece models, portrait ring and playground folds such as a talking fox for kids. I gave it to an adult Origami fan who does not speak English and she needed little help to begin folding.