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Origami is a Japanese paper-folding art but unless you grew up in a traditional Japanese household or had an avid interest in paper craft as a kid, chances are you never learned more than a few basic school yard origami tricks.
Learn How To Fold Thousands Of Origami Figures At Origami Club | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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The six allege that Morris's set of abstract paintings entitled "Origami" – a series of at least 37 works – are merely coloured-in copies of their intricate origami representations of hummingbirds, grasshoppers and other animals, birds and insects, produced using the centuries-old Japanese craft of paper-folding.
Tate artist Sarah Martin 'unfolded' our works, claim leading origami designers 2011
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In the rest of the world, however, business-card origami is a modern paper-folding subgenre.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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In the rest of the world, however, business-card origami is a modern paper-folding subgenre.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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Though origami was originally a Japanese invention, paper-folding techniques also developed independently in other countries.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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Someone with this calibur of paper-folding skills MUST be able to make a Jesus figure.
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Origami is a Japanese paper-folding art but unless you grew up in a traditional Japanese household or had an avid interest in paper craft as a kid, chances are you never learned more than a few basic school yard origami tricks.
Learn How To Fold Thousands Of Origami Figures At Origami Club | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Though origami was originally a Japanese invention, paper-folding techniques also developed independently in other countries.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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His creation of paper-folding puzzles led to his publication in Scientific American magazine, where he wrote his "Mathematical Games" column for 25 years.
Martin Gardner, Layman's Mathematician And Fierce Foe Of Pseudoscience, Dies At 95 2010
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A European pioneer was the German educator Friedrich Fröbel, who used paper-folding in the mid-nineteenth century as a way of teaching young children geometry.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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