Shoe

If You Don’t Love These Origami Shoes then You Probably Have no Sole

When doing research for this website I was surprised to find a ton of really awesome origami shoes. Here’s a great basketball shoe design from Sipho Mabona. Onitsuka Tiger Basketball Shoe, Designed by Sipho Mabona and Folded by nyanko sensei Diagrams available in the Origami Tanteidan 15th Convention book   Here’s a couple of pairs of cute little…

Violin

Take a Minuet to Look at this Amazing Music-Themed Origami

You can fold pretty much anything you can imagine from paper and that includes things like musical instruments, musicians and other music themed things. There’s actually a pretty surprising amount of awesome music themed models and we’ll be covering a lot of it in this post starting with this paper bass. The entire thing is folded from…

Shinku

21 More Anime Characters Brought to Life Through Origami

There’s a ton of amazing origami versions of anime characters and other various things from Japanese anime and manga. We already posted about this before and we’re doing it again! There will probably be at least 2 or 3 more posts in the future since there’s such a large amount of anime-themed origami. I never…

Lizard

Iguana Fold these 28 Awesome Origami Lizards

There are a lot of really awesome origami lizards out there including one of my all time favourite origami models, Gen Hagiwara’s Frilled Neck Lizard. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to fold it. This post is a collection of the best origami lizards (not including snakes, that’ll be another post) that I’ve seen. You’ll also…

Youtube

27 Great YouTube Channels with Origami Video Tutorials

Video tutorials are a great way to learn how to fold origami. Unlike printed diagrams, you can actually see the intermediate steps and how all the folds work. There are a ton of origami video tutorials on YouTube that are of varying quality. Also, sometimes, the person who made the video has permission from the…

Phoenix

Positively Phenomenal Paper Phoenixes

The phoenix is a mythological creature that you see appear in Egyptian, Greek and Chinese mythology. Rather than including some origami phoenixes in posts about those topics I decided to create a new post completely dedicated to the origami phoenix since there’s surprisingly a lot of really awesome designs. When it comes to origami phoenixes…

Apple

Delicious Looking Origami Food that You Can Almost Taste

Surprisingly enough there are a lot of origami food models and a lot of them are actually quite amazing. You don’t normally think about food when it comes to origami, it’s usually things like animals or shapes but this just goes to show you that if you’re a good enough designer you can fold literally…

Elephant

31 Origami Elephants to Fold

Origami elephants are a timeless favorite, blending creativity and craftsmanship into one of the most majestic creatures in the animal kingdom. Whether you’re a beginner looking for a simple fold or an expert searching for a more complex design, there’s an origami elephant for every skill level. If you’re looking for inspiration, this collection showcases…

Seashell

Can’t Make it to the Beach? Try Folding these Origami Seashells!

Pretty much anything you can think of can be folded with origami and that definitely includes seashells. Not only are there a lot of fantastic origami seashell designs but with all the amazing colours and patterns of origami paper available you can really make some beautiful and unique looking seashells that might even rival the…

Hummingbird

I’m Talon You that all these Origami Birds are Fantastic

Just like in real life there’s a huge and diverse amount of origami birds from all kinds of different species. This post has an assortment of different origami birds from all kinds of species and designers. Satoshi Kamiya’s rooster is probably the most famous paper rooster out there and it looks excellent. Rooster, Designed by Satoshi…

Qilin

Incredible Origami Models from Chinese Culture and Mythology

In addition to origami models inspired by Greek mythology and Japanese mythology there’s also some incredible origami inspired by Chinese mythology and culture. The first model this time is this beautiful origami Luosheng, the Goddess of Luo River. Luo Sheng was the daughter of the mythical emperor Mi Xi. She drowned when crossing a river and…

Owl

If You Give a Hoot about Origami then Check Out these Owls

There are definitely a ton of different origami birds out there but since starting this site I’ve been surprised to learn that there’s also a very large amount of different origami owl models and some of them are pretty incredible. This first owl is a pretty simple design but nevertheless it does look pretty fantastic….

Crab

26 Great Origami Models for When You’re Feeling a Bit Crabby

I’ve always thought origami crabs looked pretty cool. With their multiple legs, arms and claws they always look very impressive and difficult to fold although that’s not always the case which is awesome. This post will focus completely on different kinds of origami crabs because believe it or not there actually a ton of different…

Shibaraku

Amazing Origami Models from Japanese Culture and Mythology

Origami might technically not have originally been invented in Japan but Japan definitely made a huge contribution to the art so much that most people think of Japan when it comes to origami. It stands to reason that there would be some amazing looking origami designs based on Japanaese culture and mythology and that’s what…

Anime Character

25 Incredible Japanese Anime Characters in Origami Form

Last Updated September 13, 2016 When I started following a lot of origami artists on sites like Flickr I was quite surprised to see that so many people had developed origami models that were based on characters from Japanese anime. This post is a pretty diverse selection of origami anime characters from a really big…

African Hippo

Origami Safari: 26 Beautiful African Animals Made Out of Paper

Animals are probably the most common thing that people fold out of paper. Rather than just making posts featuring random origami animals I’m going to try to group them together into themes. This post will focus on African animals such as elephants, lions, giraffes and more. There’s a lot of awesome looking origami here so lets…

Nazgul

Fantasy Origami from the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit

The land of Middle Earth created by J.R.R. Tolkien and made famous through the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit books and later movies is full of fantastic characters and creatures. Therefore it makes sense that the origami community has created amazing works of origami based off of this world and it’s inhabitants. The…

Money Horse

22 Awesome Origami Models Folded Using Paper Money

Most traditional origami is done using a single square sheet of paper however certain models require that rectangular sheets of paper with certain proportions are used. Because the paper money of different countries are all different sizes this gives you a bunch of differently shaped rectangles to fold origami out of while also giving you…