The Origami Forum

I used to do a lot of Origami stuff, but then I moved on to other stuff and I've got a pretty good sized collection of paper in various sizes, textures, etc, as well as six or seven good Beginner/Intermediate level books by Montroll and Lang, including

Mythological Creatures and the Chinese Zodiac
African Animals in Origami
Origami in action
Origami Sea Life
Origami for the enthusiast
Origami insects and their kin
(my personal favorite) Origami sea life

I've got a decent sized stack of papers, too with some Japanese packets yet untouched and a lot of 6 and 9 inch paper. If there's high interest I can post pictures or whatever.

If you're interested, drop me an email with your name, age, and Origami experience. I'm sorry but I won't sell it to you if you're planning on doing geometric stuff with it (i.e. using 100 sheets to make a giant spikey-ball). The stuff isn't brand new, so I'm not sure how much I can charge, but if anyone has an estimate, let me know. If you're just interested in one piece of the collection, I could do that as well. Thank you all, and I hope there's someone here who can enjoy my old stuff!

Keep on folding!
Joe Peterson
runningfortheprize AT hotmail.com

benefactor08 wrote:i'm sorry but i won't sell it to you if you're planning on doing geometric stuff with it (i.e. using 100 sheets to make a giant spikey-ball).

I can understand a preference for doing one type of origami or model over another, but I do not really understand why it should matter what someone who wants to do with it if they buy it from you. It might make sense if you were giving the paper away, but if you sell it, how and why should you stop someone from folding what they want?

As for myself, I don't need your bigoted paper, but I fold both modular and other types of models, so I wouldn't be able to tell you now what I might fold with it in the future.

As for anyone else, they could easily just tell you one thing and then do another.

Sorry, didn't mean to sound like a bigot. I guess I'm mostly looking to basically give this stuff away to a gradeschool kid who likes doing origami like I did. When I started doing this stuff I had to work with computer paper and the "special" origami paper was a luxury and I couldn't use it to make a spikey ball.

That's where I'm coming from here, I don't want to be a bigot and making a quick buck off my old books and stuff isn't my primary concern, I just want to do something nice for somebody with stuff I don't use anymore.

benefactor08 wrote:i'm sorry but i won't sell it to you if you're planning on doing geometric stuff with it (i.e. using 100 sheets to make a giant spikey-ball).

Yeah! Down with modular origami!!

So, how about donating it to your local grade school? It could make a lot of kids happy, and (in America) you may be able to take a tax write-off with it.

i considered that, but i want to give it to someone who really loves origami. plus i'm pretty sure the gradeschool has all they can use already.

origamimasterjared wrote:

benefactor08 wrote:i'm sorry but i won't sell it to you if you're planning on doing geometric stuff with it (i.e. using 100 sheets to make a giant spikey-ball).

Yeah! Down with modular origami!!