What do these symbols actually mean? That’s a far better question to ask than memorizing the complete list of origami symbols. A fold line, arrow, rotation mark or turn-over is meaningless unless you know where the model is. So before…
In origami, we use our reference creases to find other locations for folds. A center crease indicates where an edge should touch, a diagonal marks where two lines cross, and two edges touching indicate a symmetrical relationship between those sections.…
Sometimes a fold looks right until a few steps later, when you find the edges don’t quite match. You might align one corner to another, fold the paper down, and then realize the edges are off by a fraction. In…
Almost all of the diagrams that I have come across in my book show both valley folds and mountain folds. To someone who has never held a square piece of paper before, these two seem very similar. Both create a…