By: Dawit Teklu, Jaret Peters, Chris Phillips Origami By: Dawit Teklu, Jaret Peters, Chris Phillips

What is origami 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.

History 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 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 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 and a thousand cranes 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

Fun facts 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

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OLD STYLE VS MODERN STYLE 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.

Bibliography 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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