Origami Boxes

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Summary: A good book on origami boxes.
Review: This book has readable instructions and (mostly) helpful diagrams. Like many origami books, the instructions follow a winding pattern across the page, but the path is clearly marked so this is okay. The folding instructions are reasonably clear, but the 3D pictures (when you actually start making the paper into the corners of a box) are not always easy to interpret. Once you stare at them for a while, they usually become clear, though. My biggest complaint is the instructions for joining the pieces together. More details, please! So far I've been able to figure them out, but they are a bit tricky. With those warnings in mind, I definitely recommend this book. The boxes are beautiful, and functional.

Rating:
Summary: A good book on origami boxes.
Review: This book has readable instructions and (mostly) helpful diagrams. Like many origami books, the instructions follow a winding pattern across the page, but the path is clearly marked so this is okay. The folding instructions are reasonably clear, but the 3D pictures (when you actually start making the paper into the corners of a box) are not always easy to interpret. Once you stare at them for a while, they usually become clear, though. My biggest complaint is the instructions for joining the pieces together. More details, please! So far I've been able to figure them out, but they are a bit tricky. With those warnings in mind, I definitely recommend this book. The boxes are beautiful, and functional.

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Summary: Great book from the queen of boxes!
Review: Tomoko is certainly the premier box folder in origami, and it's wonderful to have a lot of her designs in English now. I love her work so much I bought a lot of her Japanese books and would just work them out from the diagrams. This book has a lot of my favorite boxes, most are what I would consider Intermediate to Advanced to fold. Boxes are a lot of fun to do, each piece will not take that long to fold, but doing all the modules and then fitting them together will take you about an hour! They make wonderful gifts, small jewelry boxes, etc.