Origami is basically made from a piece of square paper, while the Haiku (a Japanese poem) is made from the rhythm of 575. Meanwhile, Bonsai is an expression of a flowerpot. All these beauties are ...

You may be familiar with origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, but chances are you haven’t come across smocking. This technique refers to the way fabric can be bunched by stitches, ofte… ...

Basically all you need is origami paper: “origami paper” just means it’s square, and traditionally, that it has a color (or pattern) on one side and white on the other side, and runs about 6 ...

Lang folded this example of tessellated origami using a sheet of paper, but the pattern has also been used to pack the solar array on board Japan’s Space Flyer Unit, which deployed after the ...

They began with the Miura fold, an origami pattern that was originally developed for a completely different purpose—compactly packing up solar panels to power satellites (once they’re in space ...

Origami, explains Arya, raises many questions and problems about geometry, fold patterns, and the mechanics of folding and crumpling sheet-like materials like paper.

Origami as an art reaches back thousands of years. “Origami is really almost as old as paper,” Ms. Zeichner explained — it means “to fold paper” in Japanese — and paper in sheet form ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.