Welcome to /po/! We specialize in origami, papercraft, and everything that’s relevant to paper engineering. This board is also an great library of relevant PDF books and instructions, one of the best resource of its kind on the internet.Questions and discussions of papercraft and origami are welcome. Threads for topics covered by paper engineering in general are also welcome, such as kirigami, bookbinding, printing technology, sticker making, gift boxes, greeting cards, and more.Requesting is permitted, even encouraged if it’s a good request; fulfilled requests strengthens this board’s role as a repository of books and instructions. However do try to keep requests in relevant threads, if you can./po/ is a slow board! Do not needlessly bump threads.
FAQs about origamiWhere do I begin with origami and how can I find easy models?Try browsing the board for guides, or other online resources listed below, for models you like and practice folding them.A great way to begin at origami is to participate in the Let’s Fold Together threads >>>/po/lft - open up the PDF file and find a model you like, work on it, and discuss or post results.http://en.origami-club.comhttps://origami.me/diagrams/https://www.origami-resource-center.com/free-origami-instructions.htmlhttp://www.paperfolding.com/diagrams/What paper should I use?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Welcome, this is a SHARING thread, where you request and share single diagrams (preferably). And I would like to encourage sharing this mockingbird.
>>620483You're the best
>>609826
Here you go my friend
>>620499That's great, but the mayfly isn't in that edition.
>>620502This one has the mayfly i thinkBTW, does anyone have chinese new year origami 2024?
Please share
>>620318tr yt/gl.its 3.
>>620323What's that supposed to be?
>>620325Ask >>620318 he loves to use short form.
Ook kid
Has anyone gotten their hands on Chinese New Year 2024 yet?
The threads that have torrents are gone, but I am still seeding.https://metis.feralhosting.com/greasemnstr/-po-v3.torrenthttps://metis.feralhosting.com/greasemnstr/smallerTorrents.zip
>>615996i should also mention that i mislabeled the papercraft torrent as "origami" when both torrents are only papercraft and a mecha papercraft torrent i need to find
>>615996Papercraft collection 2.part6.rar is missing from the 1st torrent
>>615996OP here, just mirrored this on my seedbox.
Is there any good origami book collection torrent that is still alive? I lost everything because I dropped my external hard drive. I tried to look for old torrents and links which I've downloaded before. But they are all dead. There's the 8-part 20 Origami Books Collection. But it's kinda meh. There are also Tanteidan torrents, mostly dead.
>>611100>-po-v3.torrentSeems dead now, sadly. Anyone mirroring it?
>be me>"im a neet but ill never be a 4chat kinda neet">sometimes browse boards>autistic>origami hyperfix hits>oh fuck yeah they have an papercraft board>ohno
>>620249add word 'easy' to your search
Anon you can always start from basic geometric shapes before moving up the polygon.
>>620249op, try this
>>620500or this
I'm making an effigy of a McDonald's nightmare golem
>>602052this is fucking great op
As a European, I don't get it, what does this moon-like figure represent? Racism or something?
>OP post was on 2021Oh God
>>620398https://www.bitchute.com/video/qH5T725nv8pL/Yeah basically.
>>620398Around 15 years ago somebody was making racist music with a TTS program, and used the moon-headed mascot for an old McDonald's advertising campaign for the videos because he happened to be popular for memes on YTMND at the time. For whatever reason, the association stuck.
>always liked origami as a kid>like every other kid i guess>recently decided to get back into it>started working through a book>using printer paper because i don't have origami paper>got to about halfway through the intermediate models>having a ton of fun>one night i accidentally leave one of them out on the kitchen table>wake up next day>mom rips up the origami>starts yelling at me>says she knows i've been "wasting" paper with this shit>calls me a retard and tells me to stop right away>all joy is sucked out of it>haven't felt the need to make another oneComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Figure out your basic living situation before focusing on niche worthless hobbies you fucking retard
>>611307i was a father once. my kid wasted tons of paper drawing and coloring doodles, including my signed rx paper (im a doctor). i used to yell at him for wasting those. after the divorce, he went off with its mother. now he's a videogame artist and 3d modeller.i regret yelling at him so much. i wish i could waste some more paper with him just once
>>620367wow you are fucking gay
>>620367yelling at him done him some good
>>620367Hey at least you're a doctor lolI grew up in the 90s/00s and small arts and crafts were common but even then the fact that I was folding paper in school bc I was bored was bad like I was bored, that's bad. Your mom feels insulted in a way or like you should spend your time better. People will always criticize though even if you are like learning to code
My stuffSay nice things about it
>>615798If anyone has the things in red that would be cool, especially the robots and that pokemon rumble one is great, if there are any moreWhat's the stuff in blue anyone?
>>620330Those mecha looking models i seem to remember those. Do you happen to know the names of them so i can check my papercraft backups. I'm sure i at least had the red one.
>>615798Holy shit it's amazing
>>620338I have no idea what any of these models are my guy, I wish I knew because I want them
>>615798nice job unironically
Do you guys only fold paper cranes and glue Warhammer figures? I've never seen a bookbinding thread here.Printed and bound House of Leaves. Split it into 2 volumes because I was afraid to work with so many pages at once. Covered with paper-backed vinyl (black) and linen fabric (red), which will probably collect a ton of dust pretty soon.Couldn't decide how to put the titles on. Should have made a debossed rectangle with a paper label glued inside. But I hoped that hot ink transfer would work. So I made the covers first, then printed the title on ink transfer paper, and found out that pressing a hot iron to the cloth-covered board warps the board due to heat expansion. Tried on small swatches first (picrel). This method won't work. As I understand it, my current options to put the title are limited to>linocut transfer >screening (sponging the ink through a trafaret)>just print a paper label and glue it on topDon't have any hot stamping tools to work with foil, nor the desire to purchase these materials.
>>619706>Got to join in a book binding workshop yesterday at the local library.How did you find out about them? I'd like to join one. So far I've only done perfect binds (just gluing), I tried proper stitching earlier and it's not as hard as I thought.
Pretty based. How much does this hobby cost to start?You guys are alright here. I am from /pol/ due to a mistyped web link.
I do some moreso out of utility than as an art. I get pdfs of stuff I'm interested in that would otherwise be hard to find as an actual book (mostly /x/ shit) and make them into these softcovers with a flap. The design I stick with is based on this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJY4SJipiIo (there's actually three, this is the first one in the series.) Simple, cheap, and functional, just the way I like it. Bonus is you can use the flap as a bookmark.>>619888Depends what you want to do. You can go crazy with expensive materials and tools if you really want to. But just getting started all you really need is paper, thread, a needle and a sharp knife. Of course there are more specialized tools that make things easier, but the bare essentials are pretty cheap as far as hobbies go.
>>619888For reference here's all the stuff I use to make these>>619908Pic 1: Needles and Thread (it is linen thread which is different from your regular sewing thread and may or may not be harder to find depending where you live), beeswax for the thread (not necessary, but cheap and good to use), scissors for cutting thread, an awl, the Bone Folder, Knife.Pic 2: Glue (I got a nice bottle of from a real bookbinding supplier online, but there are cheaper alternatives even though this isn't particularly expensive), brush for glue, printer paper, construction paper for the cover, some cheap leather (I think it's suede technically?) for the spine supportPic 3: My homemade book press, really all you need is something heavy and something flat to press the pages under. I put this together for convenience that way I can move stuff around easier in my workspace.Also not pictured is a $50 used laser printer I got off ebay with free shipping.I probably spent a little over $100 total on all my equipment, but most of that was the printer and like I said not everything I bought was absolutely necessary if you're just getting started. If you're just making journals and stuff with blank pages anyway, or if you have access to free printing (student or through work somehow) you won't even need a printer.
Where does everyone get their supplies and tools here? For tools, I usually go for Talas but they're pretty expensive.
No Stencil thread? What has happened to /po/ ?
Reposing stencil tutorials from last thread
Moar plz
>>620425After anything in particular?
Pizza Cube
>>620391Tutorial?
"zabawa" lol
How long will this thread last?
What happened jan 20th?
Wow nice pizza cube anon
As the last thread won't take any more posts, starting a new one...Cerastus knight castigatorhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1KHSuSxHcVKkZZ5fcOIy4YKg4WDr3rX5d/view?fbclid=IwAR1b429o9L1C-IdMOpddxoae5tg1x8We_JWvNmMLNVyaRm2K5vyibych0vg
>>620337Outrider bikes
>>620337Techmarine
>>620337Chaplain
>>620443
>>620337Invader ATV and crew
Pigmask
more here:https://web.archive.org/web/20180905232530/http://midorijikano.hariko.com/
Cute OINK!
I love that /po/ is so slow that there a bits from the April fools still arround
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>>614090
>>597271Epic.
I got to bump this
>>597271>>614091I will save this on my computer
cool
I've looked everywhere and can't find anything the artist is called Ingrid Siliakus she does some cool stuff but wondering if she had any templates or does she keep this stuff secret?
I fucking love po.
>>619931me too
>>547093diy kiri for brainlets
>>560635>2292 days and 10 hours ago
This thread gonna live forever
