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For the first time, a book that brings together the delicate Japanese craft of folding paper —origami— and the most celebrated Western holiday. These attractive, colorful decorations will add a new and fascinating touch to every family's Christmas.
This is a crafts book with a difference. A simple "how to" presentation of the handicraft of origami is combined with the Western family tradition of creating handmade Christmas decorations. We learn how to make a lovely origami nativity scene, a wreath of auspicious cranes, a Santa Claus with his reindeer, mobiles, greeting cards, a multitude of colorful origami Christmas tree decorations, flowers, and much more.
Seventeen beautiful color plates portray the arrangement of scenes and the festive use of colors, and thirty-four origami creations are described with illustrations in easy step-by-step instructions. These instructions are so clear that the decorations will become Christmas projects involving the whole family. The book is designed to appeal to children and adults, novices and experience origami lovers, craftspeople, and simple those who wish to create their own original Christmas decorations. And, of course, most of the origami presented here would make perfect handmade Christmas gifts for others.
The tools can be found in any household, the techniques are easy to follow, and the results certainly seem to reflect an ideal harmony between this traditional handicraft of the East and the purity and simplicity of the true Christmas spirit.
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Origami for Christmas
September 1997, Kodansha America
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Origami for Christmas
September 1987, Kodansha America
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Origami for Christmas
1983, Kodansha International Ltd., Harper & Row
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"As with many popular art forms, the origins of the Japanese art of origami —of making representational objects of paper by folding it, generally without any cutting, pasting or decorating— are obscure."
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Includes illustrations.
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A book that combines the ancient art of paper folding with the western tradition of handmade Christmas decorations.
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