Origami Heaven

A paperfolding paradise

The website of writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell

 
 

Magazine Cover Box with Strengtheners

  Designs of Unknown Origin

This page contains links to pdfs of diagrams for some designs whose original designer is unknown.

A design of unknown origin can only correctly be called traditional if there is evidence that it existed prior to the modern origami era, i.e. at least before the end of the Second World War in 1945.

Where there is no such evidence the presumption must be that the design is from the modern era but that we have simply forgotten, if indeed we ever knew, who the designer was.

 
 
 
  Basketball Hoop with Stabiliser     Magazine Cover Box with Strengtheners     Secret Chickens
                     
  Cicada     Pagoda        
                     
  Kabuto / Japanese Goldfish / Coy Carp     Pencil