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Origami sites I visit for general content: |
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The Origami Database | The most extensive ori-book database, containing the indexes of hundreds of books and many thousands of models. with friendly search options. |
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The Lister List | David Lister is an endless source of knowledge about the history of origami. This is a collection of many of his articles. |
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Passion Origami | Plenty of wonderful pictures of Nicolas' masterfully folded origami, as well as photos and diagrams from many other creators. Also includes a frequently-updated "news" section for origami news all over the web. In English, French and other languages. |
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David Petty's origami book-covers | A huge collection of origami book-covers from all over the world. |
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Origami Sightings | See where you can find references to origami in movies, TV, books, ads and more. It's all around us! A comprehensive listing by Janet Hamilton. |
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Anne LaVin's Origami Books | There are some very good book reviews here, and a huge list of Anne's books. |
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Origami-l archive search | Useful in searching past origami-l posts. On Alex Barber's site. |
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The Origami Forum | A great discussion area for all things origami. |
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Origami Video | A categorized collection of origami-themed videos from all over the net. |
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Origami Resource Center | By Diana Lee. A good collection of resources. |
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The Origami-L website | A wealth of information - diagrams, articles, programs and more. |
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Joseph Wu's origami page | Contains a huge database of links for origami websites, photographs of models and people, articles and more. |
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Polish Origami Association - Paper Fantasies | Lots of origami goodies. Galleries, diagrams, articles and more. In Polish. |
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Origami Tanteidan | In Japanese and some of it in English, many photos, a few diagrams and lots of information. You can "read" some of it if you use world.altavista.com. |
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Eric Andersen's origami page | A very interesting website with good articles about history and math. |
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The Israeli Origami Center | Written in English, Hebrew and Arabic. Contains diagrams, articles, and information about the center. |
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Folding Together | The website of the Israeli Origami Center's Israeli-Palestinian's peace project |
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Peter Budai's Origami Page | Diagrams, pictures and articles from this creative Hungarian folder. |
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Orihouse |
Click on the doors to see many photos, diagrams, and more. Including a guest area, where you can post your own photos. |
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OrigaMIT | The origami club at MIT. Come visit if you're in the Boston area! |
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Robin Glynn's Origami | Robin Glynn's creations are very original and fun. |
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The Clouds of Thoki Yenn | The many talents of the late Thoki Yenn, of which origami was only one. |
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Ronald Koh's Origami Page | Plenty of photographs and diagrams here of Ronald's amazing creations. |
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Origami D'Auria | A very nice site featuring the work of the Italian creator, Pasquale D'Auria. plenty of diagrams and pictures (including some nice animated ones). |
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Sarah's Origami | A large gallery, diagrams and more. |
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Anita's Origami | Loads of great diagrams by Anita Barbour. |
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Jeremy Shafer's BARF | Many of Jeremy's fantastic models are diagrammed here, and there's more about him on the site. |
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Alex Barber's Origami Page | A HUGE diagram database. |
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Alec Fehl's Origami | Very original diagrams, and a nice photo gallery. |
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The Fascination of Folding | Plenty of Hans Birkeland's great diagrams! |
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Dr Stephen O'Hanlon's Origami page | Lots of diagrams - and other interesting sections. |
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Marc Kirschenbaum's Origami page | Some great diagrams, and interesting articles. |
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Origami Underground | Origami of the adult "underground" nature... |
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Sy's Paper Folding Page | Sy Chen's excellent models - with many photos of his work. |
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Origami Swami | Plenty of diagrams for various holidays and subjects. |
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Roberto Gretter's Origami page | Diagrams for Italian creator Roberto Gretter's models. Also lots of pictures from conventions. |
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The Origamist | Klaus Dieter Ennen's origami page, with many diagrams for his own creations. |
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Love Origami | Andrey Lukyanov loves origami hearts, and on his website he has many of his creations diagrammed, including several booklets, and diagrams for a full set of alphabet. |
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Happy Folding | Sara Adams created dozens of instructional videos for models and techniques, as well as other fun origami-related videos. |
Origami sites I visit for pictures & Crease-Patterns: |
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Robert J. Lang Origami | Featuring photos of the fantastic work of Dr. Robert J. Lang, as well as information about scientific projects involving origami. |
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Eric Joisel's official website See also Eric Joisel's Gallery |
Galleries and some crease-patterns of Eric Joisel's amazing work. |
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Brilliant Origami | The original models and paintings of David Brill. |
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A Joint Tribute to Neal Elias | A joint project by some of the world's best folders, showcasing the work of the late Neal Elias. |
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Paul Jackson's Origami Page | Pictures and diagrams of Paul Jackson's work. |
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Jake's Origami Gallery | Jake Crowley is a true master folder. |
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Eco-origami | The fantastic work of Bernie Peyton. |
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Caveman Boon's Origami Gallery | Artfully folded models by Caveman Boon. |
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Herman Mariano's gallery | Probably the best folder in Israel. |
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Brown Paper | Saadya Sternberg's original creations. |
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Eran L on Flickr | Original designs from Eran. |
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Brian Chan's Gallery | Excellent creations by Brian Chan. |
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Origami Montreal | Many things on this site - but the OUSA gallery always amazes me... |
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Sebastian Kirsch's Gallery | Some beautifully folded models by Sebastian. |
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Seb Origami | By the late Sebastian Curvers. Fantastic photographs. His Discworld is a true work of art. |
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Origami Kaleidoscope | Gabriel Vong from Hong Kong displays his beautifully folded models. |
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Giang Dinh | Giang Dinh is a master of figurative origami sculpture |
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Hojyo Takashi's website | Hojyo Takashi's impressive galleries. |
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Noboru Miyajima's website | Pictures of this very talented Japanese creator's models, crease patterns and some diagrams. In Japanese & English. |
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Hideo Komatsu's website | One of the most talented origami creator - pictures of his models, crease patterns and his commentary. In Japanese. |
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Satoshi Kamiya's Origami | An origami genius - many photos of his ultra-realistic creations, with crease patterns for some of them. In Japanese. |
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Shinji Sasade's Origami | In Japanese - nice photos from this great creator. |
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Ashipine's Work | The beautiful work of Ashimura Shun'ichi. |
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Comic Folder | The Work of Miyamoto Shintaro. Many Anime characters, especially Pokemon, with many crease-patterns. |
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Kotoki's Origami Room |
Astonishing tissue-foil origami sculptures of Anime characters and more. Also see his Blog |
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Origami New Generation | A BBS with works of many Japanese talents. In Japanese. |
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Meguro Toshiyuki's website | All in Japanese - but hidden between those links are plenty of photos and crease pattern challenges. |
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Ben Ball's Origami page | Ben has mastered the folding of crease patterns, and on his site he gives us valuable tips on how to approach those puzzles, a gallery of models folded from crease patterns, and more photos of other models he folded. |
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Jason Ku's Origami Page | Gallery and crease-patterns of Jason Ku's creations, as well as several articles. |
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TT's Origami Page | Photos and crease-patterns for Tachi Tomohiro's creations. |
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Aru Masa | Pictures, some diagrams, and many clever Japanese-currency folding |
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Neil Eisman's Gallery | A fantastic folder, using his own special paper. |
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Origami Alive | Expertly folded models by Guillermo Payet, including life size insects and more. |
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TPKong's web page | This guy is a great origami creator - You'll find photographs and diagrams of his work. |
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Ordigami | Origami models of computer hardware, and more by Etienne Cliquet. |
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Meenakshi's Modular mania | I don't really like folding modular origami, but I sure enjoy looking at them! And there's much here to look at. Also includes many directions for modular origami. |
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Modulandia | Enrica Dray - from Italy - displays many modular creations, and instructions on how to fold them. In Italian. |
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Organic Origami | Original organic pleated models by Goran Konjevod. |
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OUSA convention 2001 scrapbook | Many pages of photographs from the convention. Also from convention 2002 , 2003 and 2006. |
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Erica's Origami Page | Wonderful photos from several OUSA conventions, taken by the late Erica Knopper. |
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Andrew Hans' YAHOO! album | Many photos from OUSA conventions, and more. |
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Michele's Money Origami | Michele's original method of investment - she folds all her money! Also see her other page for references to money-origami diagrams on the web. |
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Dollar Artist | A huge gallery of $ folds by Marc Sky. He sells them, too. |
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Masters of Origami | The official website of the "Masters of Origami" exhibition held in 2005 at Hangar 7, Salzburg, Austria. |
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John's Origami Page | Great models folded by John Marcolina. |
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John McKeever's Album | One of the best folders I know. |
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Lar's Origami Gallery | Photos, cartoons, and caricatures of origami notables! |
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Origami Roman | A Flickr photo album containing Roman Diaz's fantastic original creations. |
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Origami Spider | A Japanese page about origami spiders. |
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Origami Plaza | An extensive gallery by Yoshi and Orihiko Ichikawa. |
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The Museum of Origami Art | Many galleries of models folded by Ayepapa. In Japanese |
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Vietnam Origami Group | Some great talent has come out of Vietnam in a short time. This site displays the work of Vietnamese creators and folders. Don't miss the Yoshizawa Gorilla competition! |
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Origami Okiba | Very nice folding and original creations. In Japanese |
My favorite origami blogs |
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| Origami Tessellations | Eric Gjerde's musings on origami, tessellations, geometry, design, and art | |
| The Fitful Flog | Philip Chapman-Bell's weblog | |
| Have Paper, Will Travel | Michael Sanders' origami blog | |
| Dosis Diaria de Origami | Roman Diaz' blog. In Spanish | |
| fold / unfold | Hideo Komatsu's blog. In Japanese | |
| Noboru Miyajima's blog | Noboru Miyajima's blog. In Japanese | |
| Origami, Aesthetics and Natural History | Saadya Sternberg's insightful blog | |
| EL CODIGO d'CP | Eric Madrigal's exploration of crease-patterns. In Spanish | |
| Paper Forest | An excellent blog about paper-crafts, with some origami content. | |
Websites I visit when I go origami-shopping: |
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Janet Hamilton's Origami Sources | A great list of many sources for books and paper in the world. Very useful when traveling! |
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Origami books on Amazon.com | Click on the link on the left to see all origami books on Amazon.com - I buy most English origami books here. |
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Origami books on Amazon.co.uk | Click on the link on the left to see all origami books on Amazon.co.uk |
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Origami books on Amazon.co.jp |
Origami books on Amazon.co.jp - took 2 weeks to ship to Israel. Lower prices than you can get in most places. The ordering process should not be too difficult, even if you don't read Japanese. |
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Yesasia.com | Carries Asian origami books, and offers free world-wide shipping for orders over $25. |
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Passion Origami | Here you can find origami books published by Nicolas Terry, as well as other books from around the world, some of which cannot be found anywhere else. |
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Gallery Origami House | Publishers of Tanteidan convention books and the fantastic "I Love Origami" series. It's a little tricky to order from the directly, as they do not accept credit cards. |
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Kim's Crane | Origami Specialist, with a large stock of books (English and Foreign) and a very big variety of origami paper. |
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Sasuga Japanese bookstore | A general Japanese bookstore that can get any title from Japan. They have an excellent origami section. I get Tanteidan convention books, ORU magazines and some other Japanese material from them. |
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The Source | Origami USA's online shop - many books, including self published convention books, paper and more. |
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Viereck Verlag | In German - a large stock of books and paper. Their paper catalog is very useful. |
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Origamido | Michael LaFosse's studio - offering his books and videos. |
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Style of Japan |
Style of Japan.com features fine traditional handmade Japanese papers such as Yuzen Washi Paper,
Chiyogami, Origami Paper, Lamp Shade Paper and Shoji Paper. |
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The Paper Crane | Beautifully made Jewelry, ornaments and more by Miya Cline. |
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