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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Introduction
- A Short History of Paper Folding(by David Lister)
- Essentials
- Bases
- Creativity
- Technique:
- Octagonal Crown
- 90-45-degree Set Square
- A4 Star
- Multiform Fish
- Horse's Head A(David Brill)
- Tree
- Silver Half-Cube
- Practice:
- Tadpole
- Sheep
- Tree Bear
- Mountains
- The Locked Glider
- Butterfly
- Practical Folds:
- Popcorn/Chip Bag
- Wallet
- Daisy's Envelope
- Paulo's Dish
- CD Cover
- Container
- Star Dish(Francis Ow)
- Decorative Folds:
- Gone Fishing
- Escher Fish Tessellation
- Kite
- A4 Rhombic Unit
- Flower Form
- Arrow Tessellation
- Wet Folding:
- Elephant
- Baby Bird
- Horses Head B(David Brill)
- Toad
- Complex Folding:
- Concorde
- Mushroom
- Green Man(mask)
- Skeletal Dodecahedron(Robert Neale)
- Gallery- David Derudas, Eric Joisel, Satoshi Kamiya, Vincent Floderer, Toshikazu Kawasaki, Heinz Strobl, Tung Ken Lam, Michael LaFosse, Robert Lang, Max Hulme
- Resources
- INDEX
- About the Author/Acknowledgments
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Title: The Origami Bible: A Practical Guide to the Art of Paper Folding
Author: Nick Robinson
Format/Publication Date: TPB:2004
Publisher: North Light Books, Cincinnati, OH
Page Count: 144
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 9 1/2" x 7 1/2"
ISBN: 1581805179
SUMMARY- I am really tough on any book that uses "Encyclopedia," "Compendium," "Dictionary," "Complete," or "Bible" in its title. If you're going to make that claim, you'd better deliver. At only 144 pages, I was deeply skeptical - and I was right only to a point. This book doesn't cover the full spectrum of origami. It would need to be about three times longer to do that adequately, BUT he gives you a good grounding on the most common bases(what they're named, how to fold them), moves on to different approaches to being creative with your folding, then plunges into techniques and challenges to build your skills. He then gives you several models to practice the techniques and gain more confidence in manipulating the paper, and then plunges into a handful of practical folds that I think anyone would agree are actually useful. The Decorative, Wet and Complex models are just gravy on his core basics sandwich. Overall, he gets an easy "A" from me. I was really delighted especially with David Lister's "A Short History of Paper Folding." - there are so many intriguing tidbits scattered throughout the essay that I will have lost a great many hours diving down various rabbit holes that he provided in his text by the time I get done completely unpacking, drinking in, and digesting all this book has to offer. If you're a novice at folding as I am, I would wholeheartedly recommend this be one of the first books you pick up to get a good start.
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