Origami

June 28, 2017 2:29 PM

David Kawai makes tiny hand-folded origami cranes. More on his instagram, twitter.
posted by growabrain (9 comments total)

About the process
posted by growabrain at 2:38 PM on June 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

Wow. I spent an evening trying this a couple of years ago. My best attempt was a crane from a 10mm square, and that was with a slightly messed up tail (the other two in that pic are 15mm which is comparatively easy). 5mm is incredible.
posted by rhamphorhynchus at 3:00 PM on June 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

What the shit. I am proud when I make a 15cm crane.
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 3:20 PM on June 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

Very kawaii.
posted by cichlid ceilidh at 6:56 PM on June 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

Wow. I used to make 1.25" (31.75 mm) paper cranes all the time - the house is full of pill bottles full of them, and I've done the thousand paper cranes thing a couple times at that scale, but this?

This is ridiculous.
posted by mordax at 12:35 AM on June 29, 2017 [2 favorites]

Jaw-dropping. I make post-it note cranes all the time (3" square), and the smallest I've made is probably .75".
posted by Gordafarin at 1:29 AM on June 29, 2017 [1 favorite]

Heh, my humblebrag started a trend in this thread :)
posted by rhamphorhynchus at 7:38 AM on June 29, 2017

"White cranes are the most difficult because the paper is softer and also because they easily get lost among white breadcrumbs."

Oh for fu-
*throws up hands, walks away*
posted by ZaphodB at 10:59 AM on June 29, 2017 [1 favorite]

Looks like the perfect hobby for POTUS.
posted by ouke at 12:17 PM on June 29, 2017