Searching for a 'paper Tiger'

cybermystic · Post by **cybermystic** » April 14th, 2005, 2:50 am

Curse me for trying to find an origami diagram that's also a metaphore. Can anyone point me toward a Tiger diagram?

wolf · Post by **wolf** » April 19th, 2005, 1:22 am

There's three well known stripey tigers:

There's the one in Montroll's Origami Inside out. This book is easy to get.

Hideo Komatsu's tiger in the 8th Tanteidan Convention book. No idea if this is still in print, but if so, get it now before it vanishes forever!

And finally a simpler one by Nishikawa in his book (The Works of Seiji Nishikawa). The usual origami supply stores should carry this.

There are lots of other tiger models out there, most of which are of the non-stripey variety.

cybermystic · Post by **cybermystic** » April 20th, 2005, 2:54 am

Thanks, wolf! I don't have the montrell book, but I've done other diagrams of his, and they *usually* work out for me.

As for the 8th Tanteidan Convention book, I've only heard of this mythical unicorn. Is there a place where I can obtain this, preferably without possible bodily harm?

Origami supply stores? I'm in the midwest, the buckle of the Bible belt. I'm lucky if I can find a place that carries paper, much less origami books. People don't do culture here, that's for them thar city folk.

wolf · Post by **wolf** » April 20th, 2005, 3:57 am

cybermystic wrote:Origami supply stores? I'm in the midwest, the buckle of the Bible belt. I'm lucky if I can find a place that carries paper, much less origami books. People don't do culture here, that's for them thar city folk.

Sounds familiar.

But at least you're still in the US, which makes online and mail ordering slightly easier. The most recent Tanteidan convention books can still be ordered online from http://www.sasugabooks.com, for example.

donat · Post by **donat** » February 21st, 2006, 10:03 am

http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/tp_kong/Ti ... grams.html

cybermystic · Post by **cybermystic** » March 3rd, 2006, 1:26 am

Thank you! The pattern looks foldable, and I think it will do nicely for my metaphore purposes. While it is unstriped, that does give me the opportunity to press my pretty patterned paper. (<--- Dig my alliteration!)

As long as this thread is still open, any other 'paper tigers' are still welcome. Does anybody else have a kitty to share?

Post by **Daydreamer** » March 3rd, 2006, 12:44 pm

A search on the Origami Database gives a whole bunch of results.

As for freely available, there's a CP of Noboru Miyajima's Tiger available on his homepage: http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~origami/e/tiger.html