Paper - Preferred folding material

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What material do you prefer to fold with?

kami
108
19%
foil (tissue/American/Japanese)
235
41%
heavy paper, wet folded
33
6%
normal copy paper
141
25%
other (plastic, metal, flour tortillas)
57
10%
 
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Re: Paper - Preferred folding material

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It is up to you! :D
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defiantly double foil :D
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I think i just like using thai unryu for now until i find hanji :]
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I think i might use a deserty orange pattern, if i've got any left, in which case i'll use a non-patterned orange.
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a good idea for a sphinx nyan cat.
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It's a shame nyan cat doesn't have much of a nose, because there isn't much to look like it's fallen off.
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i gave up on making the mantis out of ethereal. i made the ethereal into tissue foil! i will try to fold it out of that.
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if you want i can give my mantis diagrams when i finish making. my mantis is sooooooo easy :D
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thanks, but i've already started making manuel sirgo alvarez's mantis.
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I haven't done many bugs. It needs big paper. I haven't got much of that.
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You can get big paper from websites such as dickblick.com (in the US) and origami-shop.com (rest of the world)
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no i disinged it with 9cm by 9cm copy paper :D
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i cut my paper from a huge roll of ethereal i got from a store.
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the one word thig again. i thought we had talked about this!
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GWB origami wrote:the one word thig again. i thought we had talked about this!
Actually, I believe it was acceptable that time. he got his point across. there really was no way to use more words there.
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