Paper Creations: Easy to Make Original Projects

by Gay Merrill Gross

Attractively designed and filled with sharp color photos and numerous, excellent diagrams, Paper Creations offers step-by-step instructions for 40 fun and diverse origami projects. Unique among paper... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567994393
• ISBN13: 9781567994391
• Release Date: December 1899
• Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Instructions with Great Photos

Own it. Give it. It is one of the few origami books with the perfect balance of illustrative drawings of each fold, directional symbols, and instructional text with beautiful color-plate photos of the finished model. The drawings have a hand-drawn feel and the use of black edges with turquoise blue shading give the folds depth not typical to many origami books. (*Recycled content complaint - this can happen without the author's knowledge. Some publishers retain publishing rights and re-use content for different markets (Canada/USA/S.America). Either way - this is an exceptional book.

Lovely book.

I've enjoyed origami since I first folded a paper fox in kindergarten in Honolulu. Since then I have learned a number of designs and am always on the look-out for new ones. Ms Gross' book is a beautifully illustrated volume of designs, both old and new, with many novel ways of using them. In fact, I'd say that the information on uses makes the price of the book more than worth it. The ideas for paper folded jewelry were especially interesting to me as was the information on preserving such articles from damage as might arise in wearing them. Since I am particularly fond of boxes, I enjoyed the photo fame, useful purses, and the card cases, especially. The boxes she presents are the standard design from a single piece of paper. If found her technique of folding them a little awkward, however, so if you have problems with folding one, I'd check one of the other books for a box with a different folding method. It's in the order of the folds, not in the box itself that the problem arises. Her method of folding the paper bowl, however is very clear. I've seen the bowl done in other books that make it far too confusing to follow the folds. These books have several lovely designs, however, so it may be that having folded Ms Gross's version of the bowl, one might find the others' designs easier to understand. The more exposure one has to different methods, the easier all origami becomes. Since I am starting an origami project for my 5 year old nephew, Drake, I found the introductory designs for what amounts to paper dolls particularly useful, and I plan to incorporate them into it. Overall, a lovely book with lots of useful information and patterns.

Wondeful, lots of interesting & unqiue projects

This is a wonderful origami book with lots of interesting & unique projects. It is in full-color on glossy stock. The clear, step-by-step instructions are both illustrated & explained. The first section covers basic origami symbols, folds & bases as well as folding hints & tips. The projects start out easy and become more complex as the book progresses. I recommend this book for beginning to advanced folders.Some projects include a gyroscope, lucky star, jack-in-the-box, bowl, purse & a box with dividers & a cover. Others include a sparrow, koala, dog, kissing penguins, flowers, a corsage & a chain of cranes.The last section covers hanging or making your origami artwork into jewelry. Paper painting & selection as well as wet folding are also covered. A resource guide listing stores & origami societies is a great bonus.

caution-same as earlier book "Origami Workshop"

I loved the author's book entitled "Origami Workshop" so was thrilled when I read about her latest book "Paper Creations". Well, unfortunately, I never saw the actual book since I ordered it by mail. It is about 90% identical (even used the same photos) as her "Origami Workshop", published in 1995. To give her justice, the first page of the book does say that much was taken from the earlier published "Origami Workshop". Still I think it is a rip-off and misleading to publish the almost identical book with just a different cover and title.