FAQ / TIPS

1. Folding:
a. when you fold, make sure the corners and edges are matched as cleanly as possible.
b. after you make a fold, go over the crease with your fingers or nails to make it smooth.
c. If you don't like a fold that you make, you can always do it over and fine tune previous ones as you go along.
d. Depending on the starting orientation of the paper, you can get so different patterns out of your origami.
e. Above all, be patient and enjoy. Practice makes perfect!

2. Paper:
When printing from a computer, you must tradeoff the print quality versus foldability.
Please pick a paerstock that's relatively favorable to color printing, but thin enough for origami.
In most instances, office paper would suffice for this project. Sometimes a matte look is better than glossy for paper folds.

3. On printers:
Same as above, the higher quality the better, but desktop color printers would definitely do the job.

4. Templates:
Vectorized PDF files were created using Illustrator, this way you can display the patterns better.

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