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Please note that The Paper and The Fold (our online magazine) are two separate and completely different publications.

With The Paper magazine you will enjoy a carefully crafted publication, with excellent photographs and articles by origamists from all over the world. It is a magazine that many members choose to collect for the quality of its articles that range from historical aspects of paperfolding to the latest origami techniques and its applications in science, technology, education and design, in addition to diagrams, interviews and book reviews.

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The Paper Issue 143 (Winter 2023)

32 pages
Mailed
This PDF available to members only. Join here.

Features

  • Animating Origami for a Stop-motion Music Video, by Chantal Rosengurt
  • Antiprisms: Stories of Transformation, by Wendy Zeichner
  • New Expressions in Fashion, by Eashan Iyer
  • The Pink Men and Me, by Jay Ansill

From the Home Office

  • PCOC: A Post Pandemic Success!
  • Can you find the Elephant in the Room?
  • Vounteers for the 2023 Holiday Tree
  • Obituary: Wensdy Whitehead
  • News from the Source
  • Calendar

Diagrams

  • Triceratops, by Román Díaz
  • Snail, by Meng Weining
  • Stylish 4 Pointed Star, by Yossi Nir
  • Pillar Cactus, by Toshikazu Kawasaki
  • Gabby Guppy Fish, by Wendsy Whitehead