By: Dawit Teklu, Jaret Peters, Chris Phillips

  Origami is the Japanese traditional art of paper folding  Ori means fold and gami means paper  折鶴 おりずる

  Began in China in the first or second century  Origami started to become popular in japan in 600 AD.

  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  Sadako died after folding 644 paper cranes  After she died her classmates finished folding the paper cranes, she was buried with a thousand paper cranes

  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

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