A Brief History of Origami

How to Make Origami is an art class and creative nature, is origin in Japan, at first like religious sense. It was later developed as a hobby and later used as teaching aids and therapeutic, attracting the attention of mathematicians and scientists..

At first, plant fibers used for the designs, but later used colored paper, and then used the square as the basis for the figures.

It is said that about 1000 were written love letters or cards, types of paper that highlighted the superb writing, the quality of paper and folds the letters, suggesting the origins of Origami. There are also these forms of folded like butterfly found in different forms of Shinto weddings ribbons.

What Means Make Origami

Make Origami Literally means ”folded paper”.  Origami is a figure made of one piece of paper to create folded figures varied in 3rd dimension.

In Origami is not used scissors or glue, paper and hands only.

The word comes from the Japanese Oru that means Fold and Kami means Paper.

Origami was a static art in which there were only accepted two hundred or three hundred pieces, from the 20′s Akira Yoshizawa known as the father of modern Origami, developed a scheme based on diagrams for making fold paper, which eliminates the need use some language. This helped dramatically that it could spread throughout the world.

How to Make Origami Education helps

The technique of How to Make Origami helped some teachers to use in kindergartens, as support for teaching.

Later scientists found it helpful how to make origami to teach geometry.

How to make Origami has always been easy because it is developed through examples and practice.

Author of How to Make Origami

Lloyd Scott in his book How to make Origami talks about this very interesting as are the origami history and the power it has, in addition to his uncanny ability to transcend borders.

We will highly recommend How To Make Origami, no doubt you will be able to learn much of its history and how to create your own figures.