Louise and Miranda talked about porcelain rests with the form of an origami model, like the crane. Thanks, wow at least since the 60s porcelain origami rests have existed! I'm now particularly interested in the practice of folding our own origami chopstick rests using the chopsticks' wrapper. Maybe they are linked, people thought about making the origami porcelain kind after they discovered people folded the wrapper into a rest, or vice versa, people though about folding wrappers into rests when origami porcelain rests gave them the idea.
1. Clare mentioned that in the 60s in Japan, people didn't fold origami with the wrappers but they did make simple models with them? Clare, I'm sorry... I didn't understand what you meant with that. Did you mean, they did fold simple origami models with the wrapper but not for the intention of using them as chopstick rests? 2. If I understood you correctly Clare, premade chopstick rests (like in plastic or porcelain) have become less common in restaurants. Right? But what about the practice of folding them out of the wrappers? Do most people do that in a restaurant or just a few? I can tell you that I'm the only one that does that when I go to a Japanese restaurant... but then again I'm REALLY far from japan. Thanks for sharing your experience about the boat chopstick rest Mr. Saburo Kase taught you. Did he created it? I would love to see a picture if you can fold one. And thanks to Clare we at least know that also in the 60s people made chopstick rests by making a knot out of the wrapper; that's around the same time Miranda's father's brought a porcelain origami rest. I wonder how long ago did people started making the knot wrapper rests? Talk about questions that aren't easy to answer. PS: Clare mentioned David Lister and his awesome knowledge regarding origami history. Yeah, I was thinking of him as I was writing my questions. As I was typying the recepient... L I S T (his email poped up along with the list). I would have loved reading his reply : )
