Origami Heaven

A paperfolding paradise

The website of writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell

 
 
 

The 1885 engraving of the Flapping Bird

   This page provides links to pages which deal with themes relating to origami history. In many cases links within these pages lead on to specific design / game / novelty / effects pages.
 
 
 
  Joseph Albers and Paperfolding at the Bauhaus     Paper Frills / Manchettes     Folding Propaganda
                     
  Paper Alphabets and Paper Numbers     Overview of Froebelian Paperfolding and the Kindergarten     Paper Purses / Wallets
                     
  The paperfolding of Giuseppe Baggi     Simple Froebelian Folds of Life     Folding Paper Puzzles
                     
  Paper Baskets     Froebelian Folds of Life from the Double Blintz basic form and the Windmill Base     Quilling / Paper Filigree
                     
  Paper Birds     Froebelian Folds of Life from the the Triple Blintz basic form and the Blintzed Windmill Base     Paperfolding in the Rupert Bear Annuals
                     
  Paper Boats     Paper Hair Wrappings     Making Accurate Right Angles by Folding Paper
                     
  How to Boil Water / Cook Food in Paper Wrappings, Pans or Kettles     Harlequinades / Metamorphoses / Flap-Books / Turn-up Books     Rotationally Symmetric Fold and Cut Designs
                     
  Paperfolding in the Boy's Own Magazine     Paper Hats and Caps     Paper Seals / Sealions
                     
  Paper Boxes     Pleated Paper Lampshades     Paperfolding in Scientific American magazine
                     
  Paper Butterflies     Paper Lanterns     Fold and Cut Friezes, Shelf Edgings and Flowerpot Decorations
                     
  Cardboard Modelling / Cartonnage     How to Melt Lead in Paper / The Paper Furnace / Salamander Paper     Percy Bysshe Shelley and his paper boats
                     
  Paper Cartridges     Letterfolds and Letterlocks     Paper Spills /Alumettes / Paper Matches
                     
  Ceremonial Wrappers / Tsutsumi     Was Leonardo da Vinci a Paperfolder?     Paperfolding in St Nicholas magazine
                     
  Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) / John Tenniel     Macromodular Origami     Symmetrical Inkblots / Klecksography / Rorschach Test
                     
  Paper Cones / Grocer's Cones     Paperfolding in Mad Magazine     Fold and Slit Paper Tinsel / Tassles
                     
  Crane and Tortoise Designs     Modular Origami     Paper Turtles / Tortoises
                     
  Cut and Fold Designs     Robert E Neale - A bibliography     Undated Postcards
                     
  Paper Dunce's Hats and Donkey Ears     Fold and One Cut Designs     The Folding of Visiting / Calling Cards
                     
  Paper Elephants     Paper Packets     Paper Wicks
                     
  Everyday Practical and Decorative Paperfolds     Paper Peacocks     Paper Windmills
                     
  Pleated Paper Fans     Paper Penguins     Zig-Zag Fold-Ins
                     
  Paper Filters     Folded Patenbriefs / Baptismal Certificates      
                     
  Paper Fire Lighters     16th Century Dutch Patriotic Pamphlets      
                     
  The Fifth Pig and similar propaganda fold-ins     Japanese Folding Picture Forms      
                     
  Paper Flights     Paper Planes      
                     
  Fold-Ins     Multiple-Image Pleated Paper Pictures / Falzbilder / Tabulae Striatae      
                     
  Fold-Outs     Cut and Fold Polyhedral Nets