Product Description

Featuring dozens of flower designs, simple step-by-step instructions, and over 80 colorful pictures, Origami Flowers is all that one needs to create a charming garden full of stunning flowers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85364 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 114 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9784889961164
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Publisher
Origami Flowers is a truly original book that combines innovative paper crafting with the beauty of flowers. Both children and adults will enjoy this gorgeous new book full of dozens of easy-to-create flowers. Readers will learn how to turn ordinary square origami paper into dazzling azaleas, glorious roses, cheerful hyacinths, exquisite lilies and much more. Origami Flowers also explains how to make bouquets, fancy potted flowers and ikebana, as well as how to add stems and leaves to each creation to make them more realistic than ever.

About the Author
Hiromi Hayashi was born in Japan in 1963. While she loved origami just as much as any Japanese child would, it was not until her beloved daughter was hospitalized that she found origami can encourage others. She became fascinated by the art of turning origami paper into flowers. She has been creating various flowers in her own style ever since and now resides east of Tokyo, in Chiba City.

Customer Reviews

Nicely diagrammed flower folds with pretty results
I am a long-time origami fan, though my skills are only intermediate. I had no problem with any of the diagrams in this book, but I would guess that it might be a bit intimidating to a beginner. The absolute beginner who is not familiar with origami diagrams might want to start with a "easy origami" book first which shows the standard fold symbols with step by step instructions. Still, the standard folding symbols are not hard to learn, and there are no complex folds in this book, so a beginner could probably figure it out from this book with some patience. It could use a bit more detail on assembling the flowers. There are lots of good closeup pictures of the finished flowers, and you can figure it out from those, but a walk through on the first flower of how it is done would have been nice.

The flowers are very detailed and nice looking when completed, and they are diagrammed clearly. I found no errors in the diagrams.

Create beautiful lifelike flowers out of paper
After finding the author's website where she displays dozens of pictures of amazing and beautiful floral arrangements from flowers in the book, I just had to buy it. I am very new to origami so I was pleasantly surprised to find I can create the majority of the flowers. With practice I think I can create all of them eventually. The tulips are quite easy and the carnations are easy and very lifelike. The Gerbera, Cosmos and a few others are a little more difficult as they require small folds with thick paper towards the end. The large majority of flowers require you to precut squares into pentagons, hexagons, or the 16 sided ones but detailed how to instructions are provided in the book. The roses, stock, cornflower and several other require more than 1 sheet of paper for the blossom. Most of the diagrams are pretty straight-forwarded. I've only been baffled by a few, but eventually worked it out. Templates are provided for the leaves. I would have liked to see more detailed instructions with gluing the calyx's on to the flowers, taping the wire and adding the leaves. A nice set of beautiful color photos are included in the beginning with close-ups which helps a lot with folding and assembling the flowers. All in all this book has definitely been worth my time and money.

Beautiful results, if you can find out how to get there
If you are fairly skilled at paper folding, then you'll probably enjoy the problem solving this book presents. The full color pictures at the beginning of the book are beautiful and detailed (which often helps when trying to figure out what the end product should look like).

However, This book is not for beginners. Page 33 may have definitions of Origami Symbols, but the page by page instructions are incomplete.

For example, the Dahlia on page 77. There are a couple missing steps between 10 and 11. To find the shape you want, the best example I can direct you to is the page 33 directions, row 4 where it says "Push inside and flatten." That's basically what you are doing to acheive the shape in step number 11.

Also, the page 34 "Basic Hexagon" instructions haven't worked very well for me. I went on line to a German origami site and found better instructions... even though I don't speak German.

All in all I am enjoying the book, and am not disappointed that I purchased it. It just gets frustrating on occasion, and I'm glad that I know enough about paper folding to be able to figure these things out.