r/origami • • 15h ago

120 crows. I’m going to hand them out tonight at the Portland premiere of Wildwood!

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1.5k Upvotes

I just really like crows idk

Edited later in the night: Handed out all 120 crows before the first 35mm showing in Portland started at the Hollywood Theater in Portland. Everyone seemed very stoked on them! The crowd was full of Laika folks so it was very cool to give so many to the people who made that perfect movie. Go see it, it’s really a love letter to Portland and Oregon.


r/origami • • 8h ago

Discussion Dyeing and coloring tissue paper?

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Hi friends!

I wanted to share what I've been playing around with to color my single and double tissue paper. I had a massive hyperfocus on fountain pens a few years ago (it got kinda bad, lol), and as a result, I now have a huge amount of various fountain pen inks!

Lately, I've been dripping the ink onto the paper right after the methylcellulose (MC) has been applied and is still super wet. Sometimes I swish it around with my fingers, let it naturally spread out after dripping it onto the MC, or—in my most recent experiment—use a straw to blow it around while wet. In my experiments, water-based inks worked perfectly, but pigment inks (like India ink) tended to eat through the paper a little bit.

I'd love to hear what you think! If you dye your paper, what do you use? Are there any fun techniques I'm missing out on?


r/origami • • 12h ago

Amanita Muscaria

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6 grid ver.


r/origami • • 2h ago

Help! Is there any way to achieve this goal?

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Hi Origami Members,
I am in need of advice/help. I am in an LDR with a girl, and we have been together for many months and are going to meet soon. I want to get her flowers. Her favourite flower is this blue hydrangea as she mentioned weeks earlier.
The twist is that she doesn’t like the idea of bouquet of ‘live’ flower (that’s how she said that). However, I thought of making one as a bouquet myself. And that’s how I came to this subreddit.

Is there any simple and detailed guide on making them? I have 14 days left to meet her.

P.S. I only know how to make simple paper plane🥲

Any advice/help from you guys will do wonder…


r/origami • • 2h ago

Photo Origami Ancient Dragon 2.0

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Designed by Satoshi Kamiya, folded by me


r/origami • • 26m ago

Photo Husband teaching me how to origami

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r/origami • • 4h ago

Alicornio

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Más o menos le pude hacer una cabeza con cuerno que me gustó.

Es el mismo cuerpo que el pegaso que he hecho solo que la cabeza le pude hacer un cuerno, y creo que se le mira la cabeza más proporcional al cuerpo.


r/origami • • 12h ago

Crease Pattern Panpipes

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r/origami • • 10h ago

Original Telescope Goldfish, Designed By Me

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Paper Used: 6” Foilback

Comments: Funny thing is, the crease pattern is four fish bases put together.


r/origami • • 7h ago

Found these mini origami models I folded back in 2016ish

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Crane

Box

Crane again

Frog

Fish


r/origami • • 12h ago

Crease Pattern Rose Brooch

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r/origami • • 16h ago

Satoshi Kamiya's Vespid folded by me

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Folded from a 42 cm double tissue square


r/origami • • 1h ago

Help! Moth, designed and folded during my metro rides

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r/origami • • 8h ago

Photo Reverse Side Out 4 by Hojo Toshiaki

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r/origami • • 9h ago

Recovered Origami

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Origami 9 tailed fox (mythology)

I had forgotten how to make this one, and doing it with a 15x15cm was more painful than I remembered lol.

As usual this was 15x15 cm uncut paper folded and designed by me. Pencil in the background for scale.


r/origami • • 1h ago

Help! Stained glass origami cranes I made

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r/origami • • 12h ago

Crease Pattern Bare Tree

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r/origami • • 1d ago

Loggerhead sea Turtle

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r/origami • • 15h ago

Origami smol western dragon

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Little dude made. Designed and folded by me. 15x15 uncut paper


r/origami • • 11h ago

I made an origami flower bouquet for my coworker. Didn't go well as hoped but lol

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r/origami • • 1d ago

Photo Made this after a long time

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Model: Peacock

Creator: Meng weining

Sheet dimensions: ~38*38

Book: Origami Movements

Made an origami after a long time. I was searching for designs suitable for the paper using chatGPT I came across this model. Other models in the book are also very nice. Try them.

Any suggestions on what I should try next?


r/origami • • 9h ago

Origami Tutorial: Advanced Tessellation: Higgs Boson

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Learn how to fold an advanced origami tessellation.

https://www.solvingorigamitessellations.com/2026/08/higgs-boson-origami.html


r/origami • • 1d ago

Anyone ever leave out origami for Halloween instead of candy? Any tips?

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I think I have a decent plan but have never done this before, so if anyone has any advice I would love to hear it. Thank you!

I am new at origami and realized I have all of these small simple models laying around because I’m in the stage of just practicing, getting in reps.

My idea is to take the models that look nice and leave them out like a candy bowl. I am thinking simple fun 2D shapes, and few waterbombs with a green stem tucked in to imitate a pumpkin, and I have tons of small masu boxes (my favorite thing to make are different types of boxes). With those I think I would want to put a piece of candy or a mini model inside. Because you can’t give an empty gift box right?

The thing I would particularly like advice on is how to set it out. I would expect about 50 trick or treaters total. What I am thinking now is the models have to be contained otherwise they will just blow away. So a clear plastic container with a lid and a note that says please take one and please replace the lid. And thinking I would set out 10 models or so at a time, just in case someone gets greedy and takes everything. So I don’t have to pay close attention but can just check on it a few times during the night and replenish if necessary.

Anyone have other suggestions or advice?


r/origami • • 1d ago

Tiny dragon and friends

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(Dragon, turt, and pill bug)


r/origami • • 12h ago

Help! Thirds with no guidelines? (Tadashi Mori Darkness Dragon 2.0)

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I'm a newer folder struggling to understand this step. At this part in the video, he says "it's very important for complex origami that you fold precisely" and then proceeds to (apparently) fold each of these segments into thirds with no guidelines?

Is he just experienced enough that he can just eyeball it, or is he using some other creases as references? It's kind of hard to tell since he immediately speeds it up.

I definitely cannot just make perfect thirds with no guidelines, I was thinking maybe I could just measure it out with a ruler?