Of course there had to be national organizations in Japan:Īnd I found another searchable database of origami books with reviews!!!: There is also a nonprofit international origami organization in Great Britain(with a bi-monthly magazine!): There is an online searchable database for origami models!(Dennis Walker, you ROCK!): so far and immediately joined(they have a LENDING LIBRARY and publish a quarterly magazine!): I have found one national organization In the U.S. That said, there are some fantastic resources available to origamists on-line: As a general rule, too many amazing craft books and magazines are falling into obscurity because we aren't documenting enough. The point of this website is to help people find where and when the information they are seeking got published, and make everyone aware of just how many amazing publications are out there waiting to be found. I will, however, help you find a legal copy of the book(or magazine) if you need help. I respect copyright, and won't photocopy models out of books for you. Please visit my FAQ to see what I can and can't do for you regarding copyright. If I have folded anything in the book, I will tell you if I had any trouble, and I will comment on anything "extra" I encountered that made that book stand out to me. My aim is to give you a general idea of what is in the book and at what level you need to be for it to be accessible. It helps me look things up down the road when asked to do research, and it will give you a better idea of what and who are in each book. If the ToC doesn't include things like the names of the models given in each chapter, or the designers names if it's a compilation, I will add these to the ToC. It is very time consuming to include the ToC, but that's what I flip to when I'm deciding whether to buy a book, so that is what I show you. I give you the Table of Contents instead. ![]() ![]() I know most online reviewers will give you some images from the pages of the book, but it is so easy for people to abuse this that I am reluctant to do it. I review books so that I can legally show the cover and give you the Table of Contents without violating anyone's copyright. I am not an expert and do not pretend to be one. Always take my personal opinions with a healthy dose of skepticism. Keep in mind when reading the reviews that I am a well-practiced novice - I know the basics, but have never taken a deeper dive into more sophisticated folding, despite a desire evidenced by the many books on the subject that have accumulated over the years in my library. All pages will open separately so that you won't lose your place in the main bibliography. Any of these pages will be easily notable as there should be a picture to the right of the entry instead of in the left-hand column. You would have to search any of those pages separately for specific models. There will be exceptions, as some designers will end up with their own pages(anyone with 10 or more publishing credits), and things like dollar bill folding and tea bag or napkin folding will have dedicated pages, etc. By doing this, we will have a searchable document(this page) that you can use to find specific models. Because it is more likely that origamists are looking for a specific model, I'm going to list the models in the book I'm reviewing in the stub on this page as well as providing the Table of Contents in the review. I look forward to building this catalog into something everyone can use to find the folded paper art they were looking for. I don't have nearly as many origami books as I should have, compared to my enthusiasm for the craft, but all of my bibliographies started humbly, with just what was on mine or my mother's shelves. I'm a big fan of clever, and origami is CLEVER, and beautiful, and can be practical/useful as well(cups are very handy things to have around). My first Christmas tree away from home was decorated with these balls folded out of recycled wrapping papers. Once folded, you could inflate it like a balloon by blowing into it. To this day, I make butterflies out of candy wrappers out of habit, and I know I will always have a cup handy if there is a sheet of paper around, but my favorite from the book was a ball. It looked interesting, so I checked it out and experimented with it. I was browsing our school library and ran across a book with folded paper figures on the cover. I first encountered origami when I was nine. ![]() ORIGAMI & KIRIGAMI BOOK BIBLIOGRAPHY (last updated: April, 2022) ORIGAMI & KIRIGAMI BIBLIOGRAPHY RETURN TO HOME PAGE /
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