Your first fold
Posted: November 8th, 2004, 2:47 pm
I still have the first piece of Origami that I ever folded (discounting paper Aeroplanes of course).
It was Akira Yoshizawa's Pigeon. Around 1997, I found a book in the Trafalger Square branch of Waterstones. It contained a mixture of traditional and very basic designs. I flicked through it and I didn't find the little boxes and waterbombs, that were supposed to teach you the basics of origami, very appealing. I wanted to make an animal and the Pigeon seemed to be a cut above anything else in the book. I remember having terrible trouble with the preliminary stages of the bird base, because I had no grounding in the fundamental techniques of Origami. I was learning it all through trial and error.
It took me almost an hour to complete but, when I was finished, I had this beautiful bird which had previously been an eight inch square of purple paper. I knew I was hooked then. How could you make something like that, with something as simple as a piece of paper and not want to learn more designs?
The model remains a wonderfully eloquent piece of Origami that will never date because the end result is so perfect and yet is achieved with such a small number of folds.
Anyway I was wondering what other people'e early folding experiences were?
It was Akira Yoshizawa's Pigeon. Around 1997, I found a book in the Trafalger Square branch of Waterstones. It contained a mixture of traditional and very basic designs. I flicked through it and I didn't find the little boxes and waterbombs, that were supposed to teach you the basics of origami, very appealing. I wanted to make an animal and the Pigeon seemed to be a cut above anything else in the book. I remember having terrible trouble with the preliminary stages of the bird base, because I had no grounding in the fundamental techniques of Origami. I was learning it all through trial and error.
It took me almost an hour to complete but, when I was finished, I had this beautiful bird which had previously been an eight inch square of purple paper. I knew I was hooked then. How could you make something like that, with something as simple as a piece of paper and not want to learn more designs?
The model remains a wonderfully eloquent piece of Origami that will never date because the end result is so perfect and yet is achieved with such a small number of folds.
Anyway I was wondering what other people'e early folding experiences were?
