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

2. 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.

3. History Began in China in the first or second century
Origami started to become popular in japan in AD.
Origami was used Originally by Samurai and Shinto Noblemen

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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
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8. pictures

9. 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.

10. Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami

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