Ways to Use Origami

We included some piece of papers which is called Origami or Chiyogami in our "BE CREATIVE" stationery pack, but do you all know what this paper is for? Chiyogami is a kind of Origami (folding paper) but there are some differences. Origami is a normal colored paper and Chiyogami is gaily colored paper with patterns.

ORIGAMI　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　                                          CHIYOGAMI

We will show how people in Japan use these piece of papers:)

 1. Folding Paper

　　The general way to use Origami/Chiyogami is to fold it into various things. There are tons of ways to fold Origami, such as air planes, paper baloon, throwing stars and so on. However, the most famous thing that we can make from Origami is the crane. Most of Japanese have made the crane as least once in their life. This is because there is a custom that people make 1000 origami cranes when we visit somebody in the hospital, or when you have any wishes like “I wanna win the baseball game”. It is believed that people will recover from the illness or the wishes will become true if we make 1000 cranes.

Some examples of folding papers.

This is called Senba-zuru (千羽鶴), which means a thousand cranes.

 2. Arts & Crafts

We also use Origami/Chiyogami for Arts & Crafts!! Especially children in Japan do Arts & Crafts using it when they are in kindergarten or nursery. You can cut, tear, paste Origami and make your own works of art.　Moreover, there are some people who are very good at using Origami for their arts and it is amazing!!!

Children making something by Origami and Origami art.

 3. Interior

　　Some people in Japan use folding paper as part of their interior design. Can you imagine how they use it??　Look at the pics below!

Origami boxes for interior and Origami swan infront of a shop window.

Aren’t those so creative and awesome?? I don’t know how people made the big swan, but you can make the boxes with the Chiyogami you get from our current stationery pack. It is so amazing that piece of papers turned to wonderful interior;)

　　What do you think about those unique ways to use piece of paper?

　　Do you wanna try to make some of these??

　　Check out our stationery packs and get high quality Origami/Chiyogami!! And show us your creativity by using the items it the pack ;)