Release your inner origami designer
The designs in this book are deceptively simple. What this book did for me that no other origami book has done was stimulate me into creating my own origami designs.
If what you want is someone else's harder and harder designs to merely reproduce, this book will disappoint you. You won't find a compendium of unique, obscure, challenging designs in this book, but if you are ready to find them inside yourself, this book may help guide your discovery. Absolutely the best book for beginning folders, and the only book for beginning origami designers I've ever seen.
One of the best overall books
I have about 300 origami books and have designed several hundred of my own models and Origami Made Easy is still the book I most recommend.Kunihiko Kasahara is one of the most prolific origami writers. Origami Made Easy is one of his older books but it has been constantly in print and that is rare in origami books. The book is nicely organized in sections by theme and the drawings are quite clear. The diagrams follow the standard Yoshizawa\Randlett style using just diagrams and almost no text to show how to fold figures. Some of my favorite models are in this book, including my favorite peacock. I have always felt it was best to learn origami by example with a teacher or tutor and not straight from a book (as I was forced to do), but for folders just getting into the art I would always recommend this book.
thumbs down
this book is good for giving instruction on the different forms of folds but the illistrations and diagrams are were this book lacks. the diagrams are there but there is only one or two explinations of the different steps. I find it very hard to follow instructions when all I see is a picture telling me to do something and I don't have an explination. so I say if your in need of learning how to make certain folds then by all means use this book but using it to learn how to make an item is very difficult and I don't recomend this book.
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