Your first fold

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » 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?

Post by **saj** » November 9th, 2004, 2:13 pm

Mine was a waterbomb, taught to me by my mum. I too was fascinated with the concept of making something with a piece of paper.

saj

newbpcpfolder · Post by **newbpcpfolder** » September 7th, 2010, 3:32 pm

a snowball was mine!

Razzmatazz · Post by **Razzmatazz** » September 7th, 2010, 9:18 pm

A paper crane.

jogibaer · Post by **jogibaer** » September 8th, 2010, 7:51 am

I think a rabbit of Hideo Komatsu

chesslo · Post by **chesslo** » September 8th, 2010, 11:30 am

Mine was a crane!

orislater · Post by **orislater** » September 8th, 2010, 4:34 pm

me too!

BrooksHalten · Post by **BrooksHalten** » September 9th, 2010, 4:58 pm

The classic: a traditional crane!

Pop pop · Post by **Pop pop** » November 25th, 2010, 12:28 am

mine was a origami wreath but i threw it away because it was getting too
old

orikata · Post by **orikata** » November 25th, 2010, 12:31 am

mine was a snowball

.

Pop pop · Post by **Pop pop** » November 25th, 2010, 12:44 am

most likely it started old and look like snowball

jadylyon · Post by **jadylyon** » November 25th, 2010, 3:19 am

the crane! which i learned between classes in grade six or something. i distinctly remember sneakily practicing it during math later.

Nok · Post by **Nok** » November 25th, 2010, 6:41 am

My was Kunihiko Kasahara's duck.

Flame_Kurosei · Post by **Flame_Kurosei** » November 26th, 2010, 5:07 pm

Mine was the Traditional Crane too. (I had an outside reading in elementary school about the japanese girl Sadako and it had diagrams on how to make your own crane).

orislater · Post by **orislater** » November 26th, 2010, 6:06 pm

i know that story! she was trying to make 1000 cranes but she died.
(thats all i remember of the story)