Origami for Beginners

by Vicente Palacios

Anyone can become an origami artist with the help of this easy-to-follow guide book. Specially written for beginning paperfolders, it starts you off with the very easiest models and progresses to more complex ones. (A key, using asterisks, indicates at a glance the degree of each project's difficulty.) Fifty-seven models include such simple figures as two kinds of caps (one with a visor and one without), cubes, airplanes, a vase, a 4-pointed star,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486402843
• ISBN13: 9780486402840
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher

Customer Reviews

NOT for beginners!

The title of this book is very misleading. While some of the models may be suitable for beginners, and much of the actual *folding* of modules may be fairly straight-forward, most of this book involves modular models which are quite difficult to assemble. In fact, some seem to require brute force, stretching to the tearing point (or beyond!) to put the model together. The diagrams are not always as self-explanatory as the author seems to think, and there's little if any text to help the novice folder along. For folders accustomed to the elegant clarity and smooth assembly of the modular models of Tomoko Fuse, this book can be frustrating. That said, there are many good things as well, and any devotee of modulars will want to own this book as well, especially considering the price. In sum, I decided to up my rating from 3 to 4 stars since this is a great value for the money. But NOT for beginners!