Re: [Origami] folks whose creations are no longer being folded

2014-03-18 Thread Dorothy Kaplan
Dorothy Kaplan Origami Educator Sent from my iPad On Mar 17, 2014, at 1:36 George Jarschauer designed a paper airplane with a variation Boomerang Plane. I have only seen his name credit in to places: The original plane is credited to him in Stephen Weiss's Wings and Things as the

Re: [Origami] folks whose creations are no longer being folded

2014-03-17 Thread Laura
From: Anne LaVin anne.la...@gmail.com This is Utsukushii Origami (beautiful origami).  Here it is in the Origami Database:   http://origamidb.stagepics.co.uk/book_contents.asp?BookID=464 --- Thanks, Anne, Also, looking into Gilda's database I found this

Re: [Origami] folks whose creations are no longer being folded

2014-03-17 Thread Robert J. Lang
Thus spake Paper Dragon paperdra...@rcn.com on 3/17/14 9:36 AM: Louise Cooper, who I believed died recently, was a very prolific creative folder. She worked with the West Coast Origami Guild and the early days of FOCA. I seem to remember Michael Sander saying that he favored her Angel. Louise is

Re: [Origami] folks whose creations are no longer being folded

2014-03-16 Thread Anne LaVin
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Laura sea4...@yahoo.com wrote: I was told that in a forum -I thought it would be this one- not long time ago was circulating a list of people whose creations were forgotten or no longer being folded. It seems you two have not see the list either. I wonder

Re: [Origami] folks whose creations are no longer being folded

2014-03-16 Thread Anne LaVin
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Laura sea4...@yahoo.com wrote: Just wanted to mention, last week I was at Kinokuniya bookstore in Manhattan and found a book, which I readily purchased To see the cover, http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4821604132 (link shortened, and

Re: [Origami] folks whose creations are no longer being folded

2014-03-16 Thread Kathy Knapp
From: Anne LaVin anne.la...@gmail.com I'll also second two of the names from Michael LaFosse's post to that discussion:  Akira Yoshizawa and Makoto Yamaguchi. And Yamaguchi, His own books tend towards the useful/decorative/educational rather than super-complex, and so I think often get

Re: [Origami] folks whose creations are no longer being folded

2014-03-14 Thread Ronald Koh
On 3/15/2014 12:09 AM, Laura wrote: Has anyone kept a list of folks whose creations have been forgotten and may no longer being folded and if so would you be so kind to send it to me or repost here? Dokuotei Nakano comes to mind. There are diagrams for his Angel in one of Robert Harbin's

Re: [Origami] folks whose creations are no longer being folded

2014-03-14 Thread Robert J. Lang
Thus spake Laura sea4...@yahoo.com on 3/14/14 8:09 AM: Has anyone kept a list of folks whose creations have been forgotten and may no longer being folded and if so would you be so kind to send it to me or repost here? I'll put in a plug for Don Hickmott! Who dat? Way back in the 70's, he was