The Origami Forum

Hi All, referring to the following:

The largest origami crane had a wingspan of 78.19 m (256 ft 6 in). It was folded at the Odate Jukai Dome in Odate, Maebashi, Japan on 20-21 January 2001 (source: Guinness World Records 2005). I tried to find some photos but no luck.

There's a photo of the world's second largest origami crane at:
http://www.sadako.org/sadako/____A__Wor ... Crane.html

Third largest:
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/archives/n ... crane.html

I'm curious, how did they get such a large sheet of paper? Did they stick smaller pieces of paper together to form a large sheet? Wouldn't the paper tear?

From the photos, looks like they're holding up the neck and tail with wires. But how did they fold it? Imagine doing a squash or petal fold on that humongous piece of paper!

Cheers, HF

I think I remember reading about one giant crane that was folded from a sheet made from many different sheets bound together. Theoretically, a sheet like that could be made using the pour method (paper fiber is poured on a flat surface and let to dry). You would need one heck of a pane of glass though, and it would take surveyors to get it square

That would be a real pane in the neck wouldn't it! The paper would need to be pretty resilient - wondering how thick it needs to be? Anyone up for challenging this record HF

The paper could have been specially made but broken up into several large sheets and joined together. Just an idea

*Edit* sorry should have read all the posts, someone already mentioned this idea above.