What a beautiful story, Dave! Thanks so much for sharing.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has what is probably the oldest set
of origata known to date.
The 128 origata are pasted in a sort of “scrapbook album” and there are 23 more
loose objects.
They are mostly tsutsumi (paper fold
Some information that was new to me ... and so may also be new to some of
you ...
As those of you who are interested in paperfolding history will know there
are several independent records of Leo Tolstoy folding 'paper cockerels'.
One example is given by Misha Litvinov and Sergei Mamin in their
