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Paper sculpture bird cameao resting inside a blue paper box

Bird Cameo – Paper Sculpture Sketch

culpture always brings with it a sense of agelessness, and also a sense of something that takes long hours, days and months to hew from the materials at hand. This is true, and can...

Origami samurai hat resting on the head of a small dodo statuette

Samurai Hat – Origami Design

ver since I started posting pictures of origami pieces populating my world on Instagram, I have been quite fascinated by this origami samurai hat model. And when I had to create a large life-size...

Finished paper relief sculpture in white on a blue paper background

Making a Paper Relief Sculpture as Milestone

ome of the most lasting songs to human existence are in the form of inhuman edifices, monuments to long-forgotten peoples and Gods with no names. We have always cherished our monuments, and sculpture, the...

Series of folding steps for the Gnat paper airplane

The Gnat – Paper Airplane Instructions

One of the staple paper planes of my childhood, the Gnat, I’ve already covered in detailed folding instructions, but I think there are varying ways to learn origami and paper folding. I think the...

Two different models of origami samurai hat

How a Large Origami Samurai Hat Was Made

he idea behind Papernautic has most to do with scratching a personal itch of mine. Being on the internet for the last 15 years now, I’ve seen paper craft go from niche geek interest,...

Gnat paper airplane on a patterned fabric.

The Gnat – Paper Airplane Design

y love of origami and paper folding started very young, and was tied into my love of aircraft and, by association, paper airplanes. Paper folding in general was fascinating and magical, but it was...

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