Category — Crafts

Japanese Accessories and Jewellery Maker, Goro’s, just released a few new items for July.

Founded by Goro Takahashi, Goro’s focuses on making top-quality products hand made by skilled craftsman.

The release includes four beige wallets that are all made with saddle leather and each comes with an custom silver pin. The designs are simple but elegant with native American influences.

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This looks like an amicable way to spend an afternoon. You can download the pattern and follow the tutorial to create an origami finger puppet.

Great if you have a kid or two you need to keep busy during these wet UK days…

Make a 3-D Origami Finger Puppet

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This Buddha head has been carved out of a load of phone books. Is there something spiritual involved with using all those phone numbers?

Shot at the recent TED conference.

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This Origami Lamp is perhaps a nice, crafty sort of project if you need a lamp and love origami.

All you need is a pre-scored 0.8mm sheet of stainless steel (ok - you might need a decent hand tool to pre-score the sheet) and some sort of lamp fixture. Then it is just a matter of bending the segments into an origami design that suits your tastes.

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Instant Origami is the contemporary interpretation of the traditional Japanese paper folding technique - focusing on speed and imagination rather than on the technically brilliant execution.

The goal, to create a representation of an object by folding a single piece of paper without the use of glue, remains unchanged.

I didn’t think too much when I saw this site, assuming it was just another video tutorial of origami-how-tos. But it made me smile and then I thought it was quite clever. Your imagination might need to work a bit harder for ‘the frog’ however!

Instant Origami

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These seem like a nice subtle touch of customised orientalism for your interiors. Make your own origami balloon lights via the tutorial at Folding Trees.

How To Make Origami Balloon Lights

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Joining the Lord of the Rings origami franchise is now a slightly crinkly looking WALL-E and Iron Man.

These are created by the hands of one Brian Chan, who created these out of one piece of paper (each).

If you ask me, I think origami works a little better for slightly organic subjects, rather than the supposedly smooth and metallic surfaces of WALL-E and Iron Man. Well, maybe these are meant to be post-battle.

Gizmodo Origami WALL-E
Gizmodo Origami Iron Man

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With heavyweight paper, tape, and fire retardant spray, children of all ages can make a nifty origami paper lantern.

The trick is in how you fold the paper, and accuracy is crucial. Be sure to find the right size paper—Yasutomo recommends 14″x22″.

The result is a cool-looking lamp that could make a nice homemade gift, too. Or if all else fails, Ikea probably sell something similar…

Make Your Own Origami Paper Lamp

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