By: Dawit Teklu, Jaret Peters, Chris By: Dawit Teklu, Jaret Peters, Chris PhillipsPhillips

Origami is the Japanese traditional art of

paper folding Ori means fold and gami means paper Origami was commonly used in wedding and

other formal festivals.

Began in China in the first or second century Origami started to become popular in japan in

600 AD. Origami was used Originally by Samurai and

Shinto Noblemen

Kirigami is the Japanese term for paper cutting It was used in traditional origami Now modern origami has the technique to

make cutting unnecessary This change occurred during the 60’s and 70’s

Wet folding is a technique were you damp the

paper so you shape it in different ways and keep that shape when it dries.

It can be used to make real looking animal models

Reduces the number of wrinkles

Sadako was exposed to radiation from the

atomic bomb in Hiroshima When she was twelve she was dying of

Leukemia Sadako started folding 1000 paper cranes When she found out about the children around

the suffering she then wanted world peace

The crane is the most famous origami design The smallest origami crane in the world was

0.1 by 0.1 mm by an 82 year old using special tools and a microscope

Origami USA has a convention in New York that is said to be the largest in the world

折鶴 – Paper Craneおりずる

Only the rich could practice origami because

paper was very expensive Origami was used by Shinto Noblemen

celebrating weddings by wrapping gifts like Sake (rice wine) in a butterfly form.

Now origami is practised by everyone and is used for physical therapies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami http://library.thinkquest.org/5402/history.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-folding http://www2.hawaii.edu/~aller/Origami/

facts.html http://library.thinkquest.org/5402/uses.html

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