Children's Fun Origami (Part 2)

Author: Zhang Qifan / Zhang Yan
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Origami is based on folding, often supplemented with cutting, gluing, shaping, and pinching.
Cutting: Used to create parts that are difficult to fold, such as tails, legs, manes, etc. The cut parts are often folded further to resemble the final shape. Cutting also refers to cutting windows, patterns, etc. on folded items, like the tail feathers of a peacock.
Gluing: Used to stick two folded items together or when a foldable item has a hard-to-close section. The book also uses gluing to attach ends of paper.
Inserting: Similar to gluing, where insertion replaces gluing.
Pinching: Paper is somewhat like clay, and pinching can make folded items more realistic, such as horse legs and ears.
Pressing: Used on the backs of animals to make the body round or curved. Also used on other parts, like the belly of Zhu Bajie.
Pinching: Often used for horse mouths. Other origami books may also mention blowing (to inflate folded items), piercing (e.g., folding a paper into a fan shape by piercing one end and opening the other), and other crafts (e.g., using wire to make flower stems).