Michael Lafosse's Origami Butterflies: Elegant Designs from a Master Folder: Full-Color Origami Book with 26 Projects and Instructional Videos [With 2

Michael Lafosse's Origami Butterflies: Elegant Designs from a Master Folder: Full-Color Origami Book with 26 Projects and Instructional Videos [With 2 - Paperback

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Michael Lafosse's Origami Butterflies: Elegant Designs from a Master Folder: Full-Color Origami Book with 26 Projects and Instructional Videos [With 2
  • Michael Lafosse's Origami Butterflies: Elegant Designs from a Master Folder: Full-Color Origami Book with 26 Projects and Instructional Videos [With 2
Michael Lafosse's Origami Butterflies: Elegant Designs from a Master Folder: Full-Color Origami Book with 26 Projects and Instructional Videos [With 2 - Paperback

Michael Lafosse's Origami Butterflies: Elegant Designs from a Master Folder: Full-Color Origami Book with 26 Projects and Instructional Videos [With 2 - Paperback

by Michael G. Lafosse , Richard L. Alexander
$19.95
$19.95

Book Overview

Fold beautiful papercraft butterflies with this easy origami book.

Whimsical, exquisite and fragile, butterflies and moths have enchanted and inspired people for centuries. Origami artist Michael G. LaFosse is no exception. His original butterfly paper-folding techniques are a dramatic new development in origami--which some have hailed as the most important advance in origami since the first paper cranes appeared centuries ago. Hundreds of LaFosse butterflies have been featured in exhibitions around the world and his iconic designs are now eagerly sought and widely imitated by folding enthusiasts everywhere.

Michael LaFosse's Origami Butterflies presents original paper folding projects from LaFosse's extensive butterfly and moth repertoire, including all his personal favorites. This collection has many rarely-seen origami designs, and several of the models illustrate new technical and design achievements made possible by the ingenious "LaFosse Origami Butterfly Folding System." This exciting new book with accompanying DVD represents the culmination of a lifetime of designing and perfecting the art of origami butterflies. It contains everything you need to create your own unique collection.

This origami book contains
  • 112 page, full-color book
  • 26 original designs
  • Step-by-step instructions
  • Colorful diagrams and pictures
  • Advanced paper folding techniques and tips
  • Accompanying DVD video tutorials
    • Videos are also streamable or downloadable online
These elegant forms--each created from a single square sheet of paper without cutting or glue--showcase the versatility of the origami folding system. All are deceptively simple, yet provide a solid foundation for creative flights of fancy in the hands of an experienced folder. Clear step-by-step instructions show you how to make hundreds of different variations by making small adjustments to a few key paper folds! Whether dry-folded from recycled candy wrappers or wet-folded from expensive handmade papers, these designs exemplify the best aspects of the paper folder's art today.

Origami butterflies include:
  • A Butterfly for Vanessa Gould
  • The Butterfly for Robert Lang
  • A Butterfly for Eric Joisel
  • A Swallowtail for Guy Kawasaki
  • The Boston Butterfly
  • The Mudarri Luna Moth

All media content is alternatively accessible on the Tuttle Publishing website.
ISBN9784805312261
Author Michael G. Lafosse , Richard L. Alexander
PublisherTuttle Publishing
GenreHobbies & interests and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages112
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids
Print SizeStandard Print

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Michael Lafosse's Origami Butterflies: Elegant Designs from a Master Folder: Full-Color Origami Book with 26 Projects and Instructional Videos [With 2

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Michael Lafosse's Origami Butterflies: Elegant Designs from a Master Folder: Full-Color Origami Book with 26 Projects and Instructional Videos [With 2 - Paperback

By Michael G. Lafosse and Richard L. Alexander
About Michael G. Lafosse
Michael G. LaFosse decided he would be an origami artist in 1971, after reading (and rereading) a Readers' Digest article by Leland Stowe, about the amazing folded art of Japanese Master Akira Yoshizawa. An avid teacher, LaFosse co-founded the Origamido Studio, a learning center and design studio dedicated to the art of origami, and the only place in the world specializing in hand papermaking for the origami artist. A biologist by training, LaFosse is one of the most celebrated natural history origami artists. He has spent decades studying plants and animals and re-creating them in detailed folded paper projects. He has also created hundreds of designs now seen in exceptional exhibitions, and published in dozens of books, kits, and videos.
About Richard L. Alexander
Richard L. Alexander met LaFosse in 1988, and together they have produced exhibitions and publications about paper art and origami. Alexander has worked with LaFosse full time since 2003, and since then has made all of the Origamido handmade paper. Alexander also teaches and designs origami, while being responsible for photography, videography, commercial projects, and managing the Origamido Studio gallery spaces and exhibitions.

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