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Hi everyone!!

I have been wanting to learn more about this great form of art for a long time. I have tried several things through the years and real excited when it actually looks like the photo. :lol: i want to learn more about it and learn more too. Where i get confused is at the folds is there a good site or book where i can learn the folds much better.

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John
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You can't just fold one!
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Welcome on board.

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oops sorry about that.
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Post by wolf »

A few beginner books have been recommended previously; here's two earlier short threads on this:

http://snkhan.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=590
http://snkhan.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=344

Books with lots of photo step folds are good - examples of these would be Rick Beech's Origami Handbook (also called Practical Origami, etc), or any of Nick Robinson's origami books.

After that, for more advanced stuff, you can't go wrong with a Montroll. His diagrams are almost all extremely clear and understandable; working through one of his books is a very good learning experience and brings you up to speed quite fast.

As for online resources, Stephen O'Hanlon has written a comprehensive treatise on basic folds:

http://www.fishgoth.com/origami/basics1.html

There's plenty more if you search around, I'm sure.
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