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3D Origami: Step-by-Step Illustrations

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This book is nothing like other origami books. My friends even offered to pay for one of the swans I made from this book. Of course, it's alot more work than ordinary origami foldings (like cranes, and other single paper folded origami) but it's worth the work. Once you finish making one of those swans, you'll be looking at it and go "wow...did I make that??" You'll draw alot of attention and be very popular!
Finished origami looks very sophisticated, yet it's very easy to make (just need little patience).
Buy this book, you won't regret and it's worth every penny.

I first saw completed 3D origami projects of the dancing crane and peacock done by an older Japanese gentleman, who had lots more origami years under his belt than I, and said, "WOW".

He handed me his 3D origami book to look at and within a few moments I realized that I could do any one of the projects shown too.

The instructions are very easy to follow. You might find it more difficult to find the exact paper you want.

You are folding the same size paper into triangles for projects then assembling them into rows to create your 3D project.

Be patient, some of the larger projects require hundreds of triangles. The good-luck hyotan (gourd) takes 762. Looks great when complete in gold or silver foil. I used gift wrap and cut it to the appropriate size because this required so many triangles.

In the end, you'll be very pleased with a completed project and your friends will be amazed.

I first saw a swan in a japanese restaurant and was interested in learning where they got it from. The owner of the restaurant said he had made it himself and reccomended this book to me to learn for myself.
This book has really good explanations and step by step instructions to start with. the diagrams are very useful and the initial pages teach us how to fold the paper and all that.
it does get difficult to make the more complicated objects like the swan which requires about 600 pieces...it is better to start of with something small...
also it is pretty time consuming,,and as they say in the beginning of the book it is really nice for someone to have espescially if he is recovering from an illness...
i wud absolutely reccomend this book...

I bought this book a couple years ago. Used the Temari ball as a pattern to make ornaments. Made a basket, some cranes and now I am working on the Peacock.

All I had to do was take one crane to church and boom I had orders. I've sold enough cranes to pay for the book a dozen times.

And if you want to know if the book is clear enough for kids. I showed it to a lady at church. Her 9 year old daughter borrowed the book, made a baby swan and took first place in a regional art contest.

One of my favorite things to do is to keep a bowl of prefolded peices handy. I play with them like Legos and when my friends come over their kids spend hours "buidling" with them.

My only regret is that the author has not released even more books.

I bought this book for my 14 year old son who has done origami for the past three years, he found the instructions very clear, and was delighted with both the variety of shapes that were given, and how easy it was to modify the shapes to create different designs.

This very good book begin with something easy (Ornament stand, Two-ton ring, Christmas Tree), continue with easy horizontal assembly (Tortoise, Goldfish, Fish, Soaring crane, Kingfisher, Swallow and Sunflower). But the tree-dimensional assembly are more interesting! I'm found of the hat that is similar to the basket. You can make also Toothpick holder, Pineapple, Watermelon, Lemon, Strawberry, Elegant crane, Swan, Peacock, Owl, Penguin, Rabbit, Kitten and others...

It's a good and detailed guide to an origami technique that's awesome and plenty of possibilities. And the models are somewhat easy to accomplish, although they require patience, time and a lot of hard and repetitive work to do, so it's aimed to fans of modular origami. I take one star off the book because the models, in general, display a "kitschness" peculiar to some oriental tastes (no offense intended here, please!), but once you master the tricks and the possible combinations in assembling the ONE AND ONLY module necessary to form the shapes, you can with little effort design your own models.
Also, I've already seen this book (or one pretty similar) in Japanese, or Chinese (sorry, really can't discern!), and the translation seems pretty good, so to say, it's intelligible and have no grammatical or semantical mistakes that I could notice so far. Overall a good buy if you are found of modular origami, and the price is very nice too!