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How To Make An Easy Origami Corner Bookmark

Useful origami is under appreciated. This simple and easy to fold bookmark fits onto the corner of the page and it’s a treasure if you love reading. Because the design includes a tab, you can also use it to create multiple tagged sections in books or files. If you’re a bibliophile, this should be the first origami you learn to make on demand.

Instructions

Step 1

Step 01 - Origami Corner Bookmark - easy corner bookmark steps
Start with a square paper, color side down. Fold along both the diagonals of the square and unfold the paper flat.

Step 2

Step 02 - Origami Corner Bookmark - easy corner bookmark steps
With the colour side facing up, fold one of the corners to the central point of the square.

Step 3

Step 03 - Origami Corner Bookmark - easy corner bookmark steps
Now flip the paper over and fold the opposite corner to the central point as well.

Step 4

Step 04 - Origami Corner Bookmark - easy corner bookmark steps
Hold the model like this, with the flat edges on the side. This horizontal crease is what we need to fold along.

Step 5

Step 05 - Origami Corner Bookmark - easy corner bookmark steps
This is where you have a choice. You can fold it in half with a mountain fold or a valley fold. When you fold it in half, the small triangle on the side goes on to become the tab of the bookmark, so choose what colour you want. I wanted a coloured tab, so I choose the mountain fold like this.

Step 6

Step 06 - Origami Corner Bookmark - easy corner bookmark steps
With the folded edge on top and a corner of the square pointing down, we need to make a bit of a complex fold along this crease, so look carefully. Fold the top layer of paper along the central crease.

Step 7

Step 07 - Origami Corner Bookmark - easy corner bookmark steps
Fold that half of the paper flat towards the tab, and spread the right side edge flat into this broad triangular shape.

Step 8

Step 08 - Origami Corner Bookmark - easy corner bookmark steps
Fold the bottom corner over that broad triangle we just created, so you create a crease along that diagonal line.

Step 9

Step 09 - Origami Corner Bookmark - easy corner bookmark steps
Now tuck in all those loose layers into the pocket under the broad triangle.

Step 10

Step 10 - Origami Corner Bookmark - easy corner bookmark steps
To clean up the tab part of this, fold the left corner of the tab a little over the opposite edge.

Step 11

Step 11 - Origami Corner Bookmark - easy corner bookmark steps
Unfold it and use that crease to inside-reverse fold that smaller triangle in between the layers of the tab.

Step 12

Step 12 - Origami Corner Bookmark - easy corner bookmark steps
Clean up the edge so that the tab is a neat trapezoid shape, and your corner bookmark is ready to use.

You insert the corner of your page into the large triangular pocket to bookmark it, and enjoy reading.

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