Exploring paper art and crafts for fun and meditation
remember playing with this inflated origami ball and a pair of pencil boxes as racquets when I was a child. There was something magical about making your own ball, however flimsy. This inflatable model...
hen I as a kid, I used to make paper boats during the rains and float them in a large puddle that collected outside my grandmother’s place. The basic origami boat is another model...
o you remember making paper darts when you were a kid? I do. I remember dozens of them flying through the air on one occasion in school, but that’s a story for another day....
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...
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...
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...
aper is a wonderful thing; So full of hope and possibility in its blankness. Those of us who write and draw know this, and so do those who dabble in crafting it into art,...
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...
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,...
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...