Wolf Weidner <m...@tavinsorigami.com> said:
>I looked up origami, and found in various > languages, that the rise of the term "origami" began in the 1980s [1] > Does anyone have an idea why that is? This seems a difficult question to answer. And very different from the question 'Why did folding paper become much more popular in the 1980's?' if indeed it did! I replaced 'origami' in your search with 'paper folding' and the graph flattened out ... so it may be that you have a point. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=paper+folding&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cpaper%20folding%3B%2Cc0 Dave
