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Hi,

About 4 years ago, someone taught me how to fold a bird from a square piece of paper by making a series of pleats and then collapsing (and/or twisting?) the square into the shape of a 3-D bird with head, wings and tail.

I was planning to fold this model to give away as farewell gifts to my friends but simply can't remember how to fold it.

I think that I was told that this model was first created by a teenager many years ago and is quite well known, but I could not find any trace of it on the internet.

If anyone out there knows this model, I shall be grateful if you could remind me how to fold it.

You don't mean the traditional Crane, do you?
http://www.davidpetty.me.uk/mom/mom104.htm

Thanks for the reply. No, it is not the traditional crane.

This model is collapsed from a series of parallel folds, or it could have been more than one series of parallel folds.

The shape of the bird formed by the collapse is smooth and flowing.

I cannot remember if the paper was locked into place or required glue to retain the shape.

Could you maybe make a raw sketch of the bird and show us the picture? Given the huge amount of Origami birds out there it is really hard to guess what bird it could be just from your description, so maybe a drawing could help. But for the time being here is a bird with pleated tail: http://origamiweekly.blogspot.com/

I think I know what you are talking about! If it is, it is just folding a square diagonally into 16ths and adding radial pleats using them as a guideline. I don't know of any diagrams, but I half-watched someone teach it at a convention.

I can't say I know exactly what you mean but could you be talking about Brian Chan's box-pleated crane? I don't know when he designed it (really simple and kind of a joke XD ) but he had taught it to me and Kenny at one of the late night folding sessions because we were bored and had nothing to do XD

anyway, here is a picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluepaper/3675569541/ its labeled in the pic. Its near the bottom and yellow :/

if that actually turns out to be the model you had in mind, I could probably tell you how to make it.