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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Origami as Expressive Art
  • The Global Origami Movement
  • An Inspirational "LaFossophy" of Origami
  • Folding socially
  • It's All About the Art
  • Practical Considerations
  • Choosing and Preparing Your Origami Paper
  • Origami Preservation
  • Showing Your Origami Pieces in Public
  • Selling Your Origami Art
  • Achieving Elegance in Your Folded Art
  • A Guide to Origami Diagrams and Symbols
  • MODELS:
    • The Japanese Crane
    • Lessons from the Heart
    • Anne LaVin's Squirrel
    • The Great White Shark
    • The Elegant - Simple Hummingbird
    • The Dim Sum Bun
    • Ambrose the Skunk
    • A Seahorse for Al Miyatake
    • Humuhumunukunukuapua'a
    • Yellow Tang for Mariko
    • Foley (or FOALie) the Pony
    • The Happy Good-Luck Bat
    • The Alexander Aztec Swallowtail Butterfly
    • The Wedding Orchid
    • Enough of this Cat!
    • The Leatherback Sea Turtle
  • Acknowledgments

Title: Essential Book of Origami: The Complete Guide for Everyone
Author: Michael G. LaFosse, Richard L. Alexander
Format/Publication Date: TPB:2016
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, Rutland, VT
Page Count: 96, comes with an instructional DVD
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 9784805312681

SUMMARY- Great models, lots of inspiration, and some practical advice. Each lesson is well laid out, with new ideas introduced to elaborate an aspect of folding. The models given original and engaging with only the crane in the first lesson being a traditional model. I was really happy to find this book and look forward to trying all of the models now that I've had a first read through.