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I've spent a few hours looking for thin silver and gold paper (under 80 gsm I have no iead what is standard in origami), preferably colour both sides, with no luck. I don't mind getting it cut to size so A4 or rolls would be ok but I need something suitable for a traditional lotus and I'm really struggling.

The normal metalic origami packs are very expensive and small and I need to make lots of things in both colours so they aren't suitable.

If anyone knows a website that sells something suitable that would be great.

Take a look at Nicolas Terry's shop. There you can find pre-packaged sheets of 35cm silver foilpaper (Silver on one side white on the other side) that is very thin and good to fold with as well as rolls of a heavier kind of foilpaper in various colours (coloured foil with white paper):
http://www.origami-shop.com

Ooo that looks great! I wish I'd asked here first!

I might even buy myself a book as a treat, some of those models look really good. Do you know if the diagrams are simple enough to follow even with the language barrier?

Releashi wrote:Ooo that looks great! I wish I'd asked here first!

I might even buy myself a book as a treat, some of those models look really good. Do you know if the diagrams are simple enough to follow even with the language barrier?

which books are you talking about?

both the roman diaz and nicolas terry books have texts in their respective european languages and english. most of the older gallery origami house books are japanese only; in the latter tanteidan collections, the national half tends to be japanese only while international contributions tend to be in japanese with english translations.

regardless hundreds if not thousands fold from these diagrams without understanding a word of the text.

The Diaz one thank you! That is going on my christmas list

I actually found some good wrapping paper in paper chase that is double sided and textured. It is a bit pricey but should make 30 20x20cm pieces.