Onion skin paper?

kenongab · Post by **kenongab** » July 7th, 2006, 1:06 pm

Is this a good substitute for kami? I just bought one.(BTW, I don't how kami feels and looks like)

Post by **origami_8** » July 7th, 2006, 1:15 pm

Kami is just simple plain paper, the one that is used everywhere, nothing special so.

kenongab · Post by **kenongab** » July 7th, 2006, 1:22 pm

you mean like those common kinds of paper? Onion skin paper feels powdery and is very delicate (But it's good for million layer paper folding

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Post by **origami_8** » July 7th, 2006, 1:29 pm

Yes.
Never heard of onion skin paper before, tell us how well it folds please.

kenongab · Post by **kenongab** » July 7th, 2006, 1:38 pm

It folds very nicely(especially those folds that has about 5-8 layers underneath it) and it's very thin making it easy to rip so be careful when you fold it. Sometimes, the paper leaves powder on your hand which feels kinda weird(but the powder kinda soaks the sweat on your hand...lol)

The uncolored kind of onion skin looks kinda like parchment paper but has less of those "shadowed spots" when you put it near light.

It's great to fold with it

And I just tried folding john montroll's spider with it. It looks very nice and it wasn't very hard to crese it

Post by **Daydreamer** » July 7th, 2006, 2:28 pm

Any pictures maybe to get a better idea of what that paper is?
I've never heard of it either.

Aznman · Post by **Aznman** » July 8th, 2006, 5:51 am

Google.

Description: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt2375.html

Sale: http://www.thepapermillstore.com/produc ... uctid=9303

Looks quite interesting, it would be interesting to pick some of this stuff up.

Serach: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... skin+paper