Photos: World Origami Days
In celebration of World Origami Days, Oct. 24-Nov. 11, we present photos of the Japanese craft of paper folding.
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An origami praying mantis a the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum by master American origami artist Michael LaFosse.
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A work of origami, or paper folding, is shown on display during the origami convention in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 20, 2004. Showcasing a renaissance in the ancient Japanese art of origami, some of the best paper-folders in the world descended on Tokyo on Friday for a three-day competition and convention to celebrate the artistic possibilities of origami, which is believed to have been used to create sacred ornaments at the Grand Shrines of Ise, the center of Japan's native shinto religion. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) AUGUST 21, 2004 A20 Junji Kurokawa / The Associated Press - Origami creations, such as this dragon, are on display at a convention in Tokyo, which drew folders from Australia to France.
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The world's largest paper crane was folded and taped together in the Seattle Kingdome on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 1999. The origami crane's wings are 200 feet wide. Part of the Millennium Peace Project, "Wings for Peace" incorporates the art work of 10,000 children from around the world, with a wish for world peace. (AP Photo/Stevan Morgain)
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A 7 centimeters (2.8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide Space Shuttle-shaped paper plane is seen in a wind tunnel before a durability test at a Tokyo University laboratory in Kashiwa, near Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. Japanese scientists and origami masters are aiming to achieve what may seem a frivolous ambition: launch a paper airplane from space to see if it can make it back to earth. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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Canadian professional origami artist Joseph Wu holds his favorite origami work, a dragon, as he is interviewed by The Associated Press during the origami convention in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 20, 2004. "There is a stigma of origami as child's play," Wu said. "But this is fine art." Showcasing a renaissance in the ancient Japanese art of origami, Wu and some of the best paper-folders in the world descended on Tokyo on Friday for a three-day competition and convention to celebrate the artistic possibilities of paper folding. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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French paper folding or origami artist Eric Joisel shows his work of art in a slide during the origami convention in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 20, 2004. Joisel, a featured artist at the convention, said origami lovers are still a rather small group. (AP Pphoto/Junji Kurokawa)
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Visitors look at an origami exhibit at the end of a meeting of German and international Origami artists in Dresden, Germany, Sunday, April 23, 2006. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)
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Workers prepare Origami cranes at Yokohama Stadium in Yokohama, Japan Friday 28, 2002 in preparation for the ceremony at Sunday's 2002 World Cup final soccer match between Brazil and Germany. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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The head and the fore-quarter of a huge paper centipede (Chilopoda) made by the members of the Hungarian Origami Circle in Szekszard, Hungary, on Monday, May 31, 2004 in an attempt to get registered in the Guinness Book of Records. The animal has 72,000 feet till now and organizers hope they could fold the restup to 100,000 feet. (AP Photo/MTI, Agnes Nagy)
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Members of the Hungarian Origami Circle arrange all the 72,000 feet of a huge paper centipede (Chilopoda) in Szekszard, Hungary, on Monday, May 31, 2004 in an attempt to get registered in the Guinness Book of Records. (AP Photo/MTI, Agnes Nagy)
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A hampster origami figure sits around other colorful origami at Dao's Tai Pan Restaurant on June 5, 2004 in Tucson, Arizona. The origami club has been getting together the first saturday of each month since December. Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding.
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Cheyenne Grinnell puts together a 'lifesaver' origami figure at Dao's Tai Pan Restaurant on June 5, 2004 in Tucson, Arizona. The origami club has been getting together the first saturday of each month since December. Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding.
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An origami crane hangs from a tree along with other cranes and paper leaves from Desert Sky Middle School during Vail Pride Day on Saturday February 20, 2010, out at the Pima County Fair Grounds where students from 16 different schools gathered to display artwork and science projects while enjoying fun actitivites such as a petting zoo and rock climbing.
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Instructor M Craig shows off the lips she made during the origami workshop for beginners at Bookmans on Speedway Friday, March 20, 2009.
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Five-month-old Emily Petitt plays with an origami butterfly that her father made during the origami workshop for beginners at Bookmans on Speedway Friday, March 20, 2009.
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Butterfly Curator, Elizabeth Willott, is helping hang strings of paper cranes that were done by the Tucson Origami Society and in conjunction with other volunteers at the Tucson Botanical Gardens Thursday June 20, 2013, in Tucson, Arizona. The cranes are hung on the 3rd Thursdays, August 6, which is international peace day, according to her, September 11, and November 11, Veterans day. They cranes symbolize desire for peace.
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An origami craft, made from a piece of paper, is displayed during a Japanese festival in Sao Paulo, Saturday, June 14, 2008. Nearly 800 Japanese peasants landed in the Brazilian port of Santos aboard the steamship Kasato Maru on June 18, 1908, spurring a wave of immigration that has grown to 1.5 million people, the largest Japanese community outside Japan. (AP Photo/ Andre Penner)
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Two girls stand among an origami (folded paper) assemblage of water lilies in the central Aristotelous Square in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, Thursday, May 31, 2012. A total of 40,000 paper lilies will be placed, each made by a different person, in an event designed to foster recycling.The assemblage will make its way to the Guinness Book of Records. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)
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This undated photo courtesy of Origamido in Haverhill, Mass., shows the Big Brown Bat designed by Michael G. LaFosse. He folded the bat from a 12-inch square piece of paper. (AP Photo/Origamido)
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This undated photo courtesy of Origamido in Haverhill, Mass., shows a close-up view of a origami model of an alligator. Designed by Micheal G. LaFosse, the finished piece is 18 inches long. It was folded from a 6-foot by 6-foot piece of paper made by Richard Alexander. (AP Photo/Origamido)
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This undated photo courtesy of Beth Johnson shows origami bears that she designed and folded from a single sheet of paper with no cuts or glue. She is an origami artist in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/Courtesy Beth Johnson, Beth Baldwin)
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Origami birds made with donated newsprint hang from the ceiling while on display on Tuesday, May 29, 2007, at the Khalsa Montessori School in Tucson, Ariz., made by 170 students from first through eighth grade. The newspapers are from different languages. The entire art project includes elements of nature and man-made materials throughout the exhibit. Some of the items used in the project includes plastic tubing, cracked skylights, bubble wrap, bicycle reflectors, mirrors, milk jugs, egg cartons and more.
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Cheyenne Grinnell holds up a shirt and skirt origami figure she made at Dao's Tai Pan Restaurant on June 5, 2004 in Tucson, Arizona. The origami club has been getting together the first saturday of each month since December. Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding.