Teach Yourself Get Started with Origami 2010 (TY Arts & Crafts)

by RobertHarbin (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $17.20

  Is this the right book for me?

  New edition, revised by David Brill, of the British Origami Society and includes new diagrams for the reader to follow to make new models

  Robert Harbin's pioneering book provides a comprehensive introduction to this simple and inexpensive, yet creative and absorbing art form. It includes a complete history of origami (or the art of paperfolding), from its origins in the twelfth century. It provides information on the essentials of origami, followed by over 400 diagrams with clear and easy-to-follow instructions that show how to create a range of models.

  The book's aim is to provide a new dimension in enjoyment, infinite and unrivalled in its capacity to make you relax and forget everything else.

  
  Get Started with Origami includes:

  A short history of origami
  Postscripts

  The essentials of origami
  A note on symbols
  Symbols
  Reverse folds
  Feet
  Bird's head
  House
  G.I. cap
  Boat
  Salt cellar
  Colour changers
  Spanish box
  Box and lid
  Turban
  Samurai hat
  Sampan
  Water hat
  Cube
  Sanbow 1
  Sanbow 2
  Dish
  Basket
  Multiform
  Gondola
  Bird base
  Flapping bird
  Pigeon
  Praying moor
  Frog
  Bat mask
  Penguin 1
  Penguin 2
  Rabbit
  Tropical bird 1
  Tropical bird 2
  Mother hubbard's dog
  Mother hubbard
  Friar Tuck
  Squirrel
  Printer's hat
  Decoration 1
  Decoration 2
  Frisbee and star
  Japanese gentleman
  Japanese lady
  Fish
  Ornithonimus
  Aladdin's lamp
  Ostrich
  Pink elephant
  Swans
  Stunt plane

  Taking it further

  
  
  

  Learn effortlessly with an easy-to-read page design and new added features:

  - Brand new edition, with personal insights, tips, and summaries throughout the book
  - Extension articles online
  - Every book gives you one, five and ten-minute bites of learning to get you started