Get Started with Origami

Revised by David Brill, of the British Origami Society, this edition includes new diagrams for the reader to follow to make new models This pioneering book provides a comprehensive introduction to a simple and inexpensive, yet creative and absorbing art form. It includes a complete history of the art of paperfolding, from its 12th century origins, information on the essentials of the art, and diagrams with clear and easy-to-follow instructions to create a range of models. Readers will learn to make houses, boats, samurai hats, gondolas, frogs, bat masks, Christmas trees, squirrels, elephants, swans, churches, lamps, and more.

Robert Harbin (1909–1978) was a writer, a magician who invented a number of classic illusions, and an origami enthusiast whose titles include Origami Step-by-Step and Secrets of Origami.