[Origami] Happy Birthday-O! Re: Origami Digest, Vol 217, Issue 19

Thank you, Anne, for all the time, enthusiasm, and energy you’ve put into making the O-list such a global joy! About half an hour before I saw your post, my 96-year-old aunt was catching up on 3 weeks worth of newspapers that had piled up while she was in rehab from a bad fall. I couldn’t

[Origami] apologies for my mysterious email re Benjamin Rodriguez origami video and post "Great origami testimony (Matthew Green)"

5/5/2024 Hi, fellow folders re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YED9ej9lOjk? *Basic geometry: How this Central Florida Army veteran became a self-taught origami artist* I apologize for my klutziness ! I hit the send button by mistake. I was making notes on the video and trying to figure out how

Re: [Origami] Origami Digest, Vol 217, Issue 3

-Benjamin Rodriguez Daytona State College, Business Services paperairplanes >> books >> librarian gave him 1stForward Scout in military, ADHD, can fold and listen at same time. taught origami class in Orlando 155 views May 1, 2024 Rodriquez Benjamin, 40, spent 6 years in the U.S. Army,

[Origami] Origami might qualify! Apply to Works on Paper 2024 Juried Show: DEADLINE MARCH 15 — LBIF

 Feb 1,2024 Hi, folders I think origami might fit under the wall-hung paper constructions category for this Works On Paper show. But read all the instructions! https://www.lbifoundation.org/exhibitions/apply-to-works-on-paper-2024 Karen Karen Reeds, ringleader Princeton Public Library

[Origami] Origami hearing: plug for holiday tree at American Museum of Natural History

11:40am 11/14/2023 Just heard on WNYC - Bridget Bergen, Gothamist, on Brian Lehrer Show — program about where to take out-of-town guests in New York City. Shea was listing holiday trees around town and said of the AMNH origami tree: “my favorite!!!” Karen Karen Reeds Karen Reeds, ringleader

[Origami] Origami sighting —Hooked on Books | Harvard Graduate School of Education

11/9/2023 I’m always a sucker for poverty folds, but this collage illustration by Melinda Beck is a particularly lovely example. Look closely— not just birds! (Good reading for all Harry Potter fans, too.) Karen Karen Reeds, Ringleader Princeton Public Library Origami Group ( on hiatus

[Origami] Origami history --- Napkin folding and examples/video by Joan Sallas, in Bard Graduate Center exhibition, Staging the Table

How I wish I'd known about this show in time to see it in person! https://exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu/stagingthetable/folding-by-the-book/ (Did I miss an announcement on the Origami Mailing List?) Karen Karen Reeds, ringleader Princeton Public Library Origami Group Affiliate of Origami USA,

[Origami] Origami history, tangentially -- a media/design history of the cardboard box and the Container Corporation of America (CCA)

10/27/2023 I just came across this thought-provoking essay by Justus Nieland, "Container Culture: Film, Packaging, and the Design of Corporate Humanism at the CCA." online open-access magazine, *Post45*, Issue 6: Midcentury Design Cultures, 02.12.21.anism at the CCA

[Origami] Trying again Re: Origami reference in The Hip-Hop Issue, New York Times Sunday Magazine 8/13/2023

My apologies—Somehow my link to article didn’t work. Here’s the quote by itself: 8/13/2023 “[Flo Milli’s] fizzy falsetto rose and rose as she delved deeper into her delivery. Her translucent nails, painted a school-bus yellow, flashed like lightsabers as she made elaborate rap hands that

[Origami] Name of the puzzle purse in Spanish?

July 9, 2023 Hi, Gerardo I admire your effort to pin down the right names for traditional origami models, and I'm grateful for all that I learned as a result of your puzzle purse investigations. But origami nomenclature is a lot like botanical nomenclature before Carl Linnaeus published

[Origami] Name of the puzzle purse in Spanish?

7/3/2023 Thank you very much, Gerardo, for the link to David Mitchell’s fascinating Public Paperfolding History Project--Origami Heaven page about this Puzzle Purse model (http://www.origamiheaven.com/historyofpuzzlepurses.htm). Why not use the historical model name, “La Bolsa,” from the 1896

[Origami] Origami program, Newton NJ, Wednesday 6/28/2023, 6:30pm

6/26/2023 — just spotted this on the events newsletter of League of Historical Societies of New Jersey: Family Origami program, with  Aldo Putignano 6:30 – 8 PM 6/28/2023,  SCAHC Gallery 133 Spring StNewton NJ Preregistration required. Members $10Non members $15Call Andrea for

[Origami] "Playful Design" -- not origami, but wonderful Japanese paper and textile designs 18th, 19th, 20th C patterns, stencils

4/6/2023 Hi, paperfolders Give your eyes and sense of humor a treat with these samples from historical paper and textile designs (in a catalogue from a Tokyo-based antiquarian bookseller, Hozuki Books.) Spotted on ExLibris-L KarenKaren ReedsPrinceton Public Library Origami Group (on hiatus during

[Origami] woven crochet heart ? Thanks! Re: Origami Digest, Vol 202, Issue 17

 2/27/2023 Thank you, Wanderer Vishakha ! That almost tempts me to learn how to crochet! Karen Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 27, 2023, at 12:00 PM, origami-request@com > > Today's Topics: > > 1. woven crochet heart ? (wanderer) > > > - > > Message: 1 >

Re: [Origami] early Victorian-era "kirigami" -- LADY CULLUM’S PUZZLE HEARTS (1830) [ fwd ExLibris-L]

utting everything aside until I unravel the making! So beautiful! > > Do you have the link to Ann Cullen’s bio? I couldn’t find it in the > Pickering-chatting.com site. > > Thanks! > > Laura > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:40 PM Karen Reeds via Origami < > origami

Re: [Origami] early Victorian-era "kirigami" -- LADY CULLUM’S PUZZLE HEARTS (1830) [ fwd ExLibris-L]

have the link to Ann Cullen’s bio? I couldn’t find it in the >> Pickering-chatting.com site. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Laura >> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:40 PM Karen Reeds via Origami < >> origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> wrote: >> >> 2/15/20

[Origami] early Victorian-era "kirigami" -- LADY CULLUM’S PUZZLE HEARTS (1830) [ fwd ExLibris-L]

2/15/2023 I spotted these lovely examples of cut-paper Woven Hearts in an antiquarian bookdealer's announcement: *Download image here: * https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Images/Puzzle_Hearts.jpg I suspect the left-hand model may have been made by a novice, rather than by Lady Ann Cullen. I

[Origami] Fwd: origami holiday tree at University of Hawaii

A friend just sent me this link. There are a couple of related links at the end of the article. Karen 2/10/2023 karenmre...@gmail.com Princeton Public Library Origami Group Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/ Still on hiatus during pandemic > Origami sea creatures adorn holiday

[Origami] Fwd: [SHARP-L] Zoom Folding the Page’ at Tate Britain, London, 25 November 2022, 1-5pm.

Hi, paperfolders Here’s a follow-up to my earlier message about the issue ‘Folds’ of the new journal, Inscription —an afternoon , exploring the histories and potentials of the fold. Karen 10/26/2022 Karen Reeds, ringleader Princeton Public Library Origami Group Affiliate of Origami USA,

[Origami] Origami, paper airplanes, and other paper constructions -- Fwd: Free Tools to Teach Engineering Design (fwd Science Buddies)

The ideas here might be useful for anyone who has kids to teach or amuse. See also https://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/paper-science-activities?from=Newsletter for the paper airplanes lesson plan. Karen Karen Reeds, ringleader Princeton Public Library Origami Group Affiliate of Origami USA,

[Origami] 1935 book Origami moyō / by Kawarasaki Kodo cho -- now digitized by UPenn Libraries; exhibition and symposium on Japanese illustrated books and Tress Collection

September 23, 2022 Here's a visual treat: a digitized copy of a beautiful accordion-fold origami book from 1935, now in the Tress Collection, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia. The curator, Lynne Farrington, tells me that only a small part of the collection has been fully

[Origami] origami symbolism sighting --- "A Thousand Cranes for India: Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred, "

8/15/2022 Spotted on the University of Chicago e-book sale just now -- a book inspired by the symbolism of the origami crane: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo50460825.html The cover illustration is an ingenious melding of images invoking both peacocks and origami cranes.

[Origami] website for gorgeous paper -- decorated endpapers in old books in University of Modena law library

July 5, 2022 Hi, folders, http://www.fondiantichi.unimore.it/FA/lega/legature_table_carte.html *Carte decorate della Biblioteca universitaria giuridica* You can print out these beautiful patterns of marbled and woodblock endpapers and cut them to the size you want. I made my Silhouette Crane