Largest Paper

cranemaster366 · Post by **cranemaster366** » February 13th, 2011, 4:39 pm

What is the largest paper you have folded/bought/found? Try to include the type/brand of the paper, the size, and where you found it.

For me, it is a 72" roll of clearprint tracing paper. It is easy to find with google.

kevin89 · Post by **kevin89** » February 15th, 2011, 6:41 am

the lartgest I've bought is about 50 inches by really-frikkin-long, and it is normal paper (I think its the same as computer paper) and I bought it at a teacher supply store for Ronald Koh's King Cobra

redheadorigami · Post by **redheadorigami** » February 15th, 2011, 6:53 am

65cm by 400m

Rdude · Post by **Rdude** » February 15th, 2011, 7:53 pm

12 feet by 12 feet - Nguyen Hung Cuong's Eagle. The paper was made by attaching 3 strips of 4 feet by 12 feet paper together into a square. the finished model has a wingspan of 1.3 meters.

EricGjerde · Post by **EricGjerde** » February 16th, 2011, 2:44 am

Recently I've been making paper on a large mould and deckle at a friend's paper studio.

The mould itself is about 8 feet x 2.5 feet, or 250cm x 75cm.

Folding sheets of handmade paper that hard is difficult!!! I can't imagine dealing with much larger sizes...

camicazi · Post by **camicazi** » February 26th, 2011, 7:43 pm

where do you buy them?

cjbnc · Post by **cjbnc** » February 27th, 2011, 1:45 am

I regularly use kraft paper that comes in 2ft and 4ft wide rolls. Pacon Fadeless is one brand, Rite Co Inc Raydiant is the other. Both are white paper, colored on one side with water-resistant ink. The paper itself is 50lb Kraft (about 75gsm), roughly the same weight and strength as standard copier paper. It's nothing fancy, nor anything too expensive either.

http://www.pacon.com/paper_products/fadeless/
http://ritecoinc.com/index.php?option=c ... &Itemid=56

I buy it from a local school supply store in Raleigh, NC. Pacon's website above has a store locator tool that might help you for other parts of the US. Or, I've seen online retailers.

BrooksHalten · Post by **BrooksHalten** » March 3rd, 2011, 4:15 pm

cjbnc wrote:I regularly use kraft paper that comes in 2ft and 4ft wide rolls. Pacon Fadeless is one brand, Rite Co Inc Raydiant is the other. Both are white paper, colored on one side with water-resistant ink. The paper itself is 50lb Kraft (about 75gsm), roughly the same weight and strength as standard copier paper. It's nothing fancy, nor anything too expensive either.

http://www.pacon.com/paper_products/fadeless/
http://ritecoinc.com/index.php?option=c ... &Itemid=56

I buy it from a local school supply store in Raleigh, NC. Pacon's website above has a store locator tool that might help you for other parts of the US. Or, I've seen online retailers.

I just bought a roll of ritecoinc paper from Hobby Lobby. I'm going to fold Takashi's Aquarius. Paper that size is always so hard to control :/

Does adding mc make it not as "floppy" and hard to work with? I've never used the stuff, but I'm considering it very much.

cjbnc · Post by **cjbnc** » March 4th, 2011, 12:52 am

BrooksHalten wrote:Does adding mc make it not as "floppy" and hard to work with? I've never used the stuff, but I'm considering it very much.

I don't think it would help much. The paper is already heavy enough that the little bit of extra strength from the MC wouldn't make much difference. That said, I've not tried it.

The Origami Forum

Largest Paper

Largest Paper

paper size

where do you buy them?