Pliegue: Origami Paper Folding

Pliegue is origami you fold with your finger. Swipe across a line and the paper folds. Fold after fold, a square of washi becomes a tulip, a whale, a paper crane. Every fold is real: the paper folds layer over layer, the way it would in your hands. ONE HUNDRED MODELS Six chapters take you from your first valley fold to the bird base and the crane. Each one teaches something new: folding behind and turning over, reverse folds for necks and tails, squashes, petal folds. Later models show only the lines, and the last ones only the shadow of what to make. FINISHED BY HAND Every model ends with its own small moment: bubbles rise from the fish, steam curls from the coffee, snow drifts past the pine. Keep them in your album, and share any of them as a card. A THOUSAND CRANES Every model you fold hangs a paper crane on the string, and a perfect fold hangs a red one too. Fill all thousand and,…