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Onion skin paper?

Posted: July 7th, 2006, 1:06 pm
by kenongab
Is this a good substitute for kami? I just bought one.(BTW, I don't how kami feels and looks like)

Posted: July 7th, 2006, 1:15 pm
by origami_8
Kami is just simple plain paper, the one that is used everywhere, nothing special so.

Posted: July 7th, 2006, 1:22 pm
by kenongab
you mean like those common kinds of paper? Onion skin paper feels powdery and is very delicate (But it's good for million layer paper folding :) )

Posted: July 7th, 2006, 1:29 pm
by origami_8
Yes.
Never heard of onion skin paper before, tell us how well it folds please.

Posted: July 7th, 2006, 1:38 pm
by kenongab
It folds very nicely(especially those folds that has about 5-8 layers underneath it) and it's very thin making it easy to rip so be careful when you fold it. Sometimes, the paper leaves powder on your hand which feels kinda weird(but the powder kinda soaks the sweat on your hand...lol)

The uncolored kind of onion skin looks kinda like parchment paper but has less of those "shadowed spots" when you put it near light.

It's great to fold with it :wink:

And I just tried folding john montroll's spider with it. It looks very nice and it wasn't very hard to crese it :D

Posted: July 7th, 2006, 2:28 pm
by Daydreamer
Any pictures maybe to get a better idea of what that paper is?
I've never heard of it either.

Posted: July 8th, 2006, 5:51 am
by Aznman
Google.

Description: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt2375.html

Sale: http://www.thepapermillstore.com/produc ... uctid=9303

Looks quite interesting, it would be interesting to pick some of this stuff up.

Serach: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... skin+paper