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I wanted to make a mobile for my nephew using tradtional origami animal shapes, if I search 'tradtional' on the database it comes up with loads which is amazing. It seems so many in fact I just wondered if they are definitely tradtional models or whether some might have creators out there?

Which led me on to wondering how you could tell generally with well known and widely diagramed models if they are someone's intellectual property after I read some interesting discussion on this forum on the legality of using origami models.

The discussions have mentioned that some older models are mis-labelled traditional, because folks can't find the creator. I don't think there is anyway to tell without knowing the models. I've included 2 links that have models which seem to have come into public domain, because of the above reason or because they are more than 50 years old (random number I pulled out of the air to pre-date 1960s.)

http://www.giladorigami.com/swami/traditional.html

http://www.davidpetty.me.uk/mom/model_o ... choice.htm

Also, I did a Google search for "origami mobile instructions" hoping that something might show up, because crane mobiles are so popular... Nope, too many hits, but worth exploring.

- Hank Simon

Thanks for the links! I like that dragonfly, maybe I can just do a mobile with flying creatures.

Since I'm all about buying origami books (nice to give back and all that) I noticed a few books that had a large chunk of the 'tradtional' models listed on the database.

It is hard to know which of the authors really care about atributation (I was given an origami book as a child that I now know rips off others work) enough to individually atribute each design in their book. I've heard that Michael LaFosse is so maybe his book Classic Origami might a be a good source of verfiably trational models http://origamidb.stagepics.co.uk/book_c ... ookID=2780