Paper - Preferred folding material

[steingar]

Elephant hide comes in numerous colors, and is the best wet folding paper outside of Origamido I personally have run across. It is strong, won't tear easily, and can be wet folded into nearly anything. It is quite thick, thus obviating miniatures. However, once I start using sculptural techniques I don't want to do miniatures anyway.

[wood-Z002]

I've made up some double tissue white on white it works really well but I was wondering if any of you have had any success with using different coloured paper for each sheet to make duo paper out of tissue.

I use Abaca tissue (a lady up the road from me sells it by the meter) it has a very strong wet strength and it is very thin so once two sheets have been glued together using MC it works really well for complex wet folding. But unfortunately it is so thin that it is somewhat transparent even when two sheets are glued together. So I imagine that if I attempted to make duo paper the colour from the darker sheet will be seen through the white side. I'm not talking about the dye bleeding but just that the paper is so thin that you can see the colour on the other side. I suppose I could try using 3 sheets of white and one of a darker colour but that might start to come out a bit thick and is a bit wasteful (particularly as abaca tissue is not the cheapest but from what I can tell the best for wet folded origami).

Any ideas????

[origami_8]

Not all colour combinations are working but my friend made us some beautiful cream/brown and light blue/dark blue paper. You can't really tell beforehand what works out and what doesn't so the only way to find out is to try.

[Jonnycakes]

That is like origami porn. Meter-wide abaca tissue? I really with I had some of that!

[ftangdude55]

Normally I use plain printer paper for most of the stuff I fold. Sometimes I use duo kami, from one of Michael LaFosses origami Birds kit.
(That paper is good! )

[angrydemon]

To wood-Z002:
Yes, I've also had this problem before. The only way to make duo paper like this is with a dry adhesive, like glue stick.

[OrigamiGianluca]

I mostly use copy paper (60 or 80 gr/m^2) because I thinkit is a very good paper fot test and trying.

Once I've reache a satisfying model, I look for the right kind of paper.
I've found that gift paper is very good for origami because:

you can find it in many colours
you can find it in large sheets
(quite often) it is slightly laminated and it give to it a very good strengh

Anyway I like foil paper, but I think it is not suitable for any model.

Nice fold!

[stinlin]

So gift/wrapping paper IS a good folding material??

I've been looking to get some readily available large stuff for folding since I need something larger than the stuff I have no.

[Max]

Its a good paper to test fold things in large dimensions. Complex Models/CPs...

Because its often very thick you can try out very much without tearing the paper.

[OrigamiGianluca]

Its a good paper to test fold things in large dimensions. Complex Models/CPs...

Because its often very thick you can try out very much without tearing the paper.

Exaclty

The only bad side of gift paper, is that sometime is not colored but painted.
I mean that some kind of this paper has the color apply over the paper in a quite thick layer, and during folding operation it is easy to stain the finger tops and to have a white line on every crease. (see the brown cricket on my website to better understand what I mean)

But if you choose the right colored one, you can have a good experience. (for exmple all my three dragons and my unicorn are done with very good gift paper = no white lines, no fingertops coloured))

Recently I've discovered tissue paper, that joint the advantage of the large format (tipical in gift paper) with the thinness and strenght (tipical in origami paper).

[firstfold]

I have begun experimenting with cellophane.

Is anyone else folding with this material ???

Click here to see a sample show:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold/2922763444/

[julian_laboy]

I use normal cheap paper for practicing models but when I want a beautiful finish I need better paper that does not exists in this tiny little piece of island. Since it is something of a colony (United States), it is not mega hard to buy from the Internet, bur when I do buy it, it feels horrible to use that kind of paper since they come in limited numbers and they arrive in weeks and with shipping costs and everything...

[nickchartrand]

i like foil paper because i can buy it cheap and it works good(i made satoshi kamiyas carnotaurus last night)

[Sadarac]

I use foils (when i have them) and plastisized paper made in a factory. its the 100 sheet for $5 kind(all that ive found in a store instead of online )

[chesslo]

i like to use tracing paper!