Wow, I'm really impresssed by the origami you posted travolta...I can't even make a proper crane
! That website is too much!
I came across this info whilst researching Akira Isogawa. Apparently his collection "Living Dolls" was inspired by origami and paper dolls:
Living dolls: from whim to gallery wall
December 2, 2004
A new exhibition tracks the life cycle of Akira Isogawa’s latest collection.
...He was also intrigued in the early stages of this collection, by the complicated origami (the Japanese art of folding paper) art of a man he knew simply as Takahiro. “To me, he is an origami master.” In fact, Takahiro worked for two years as a patternmaker for Isogawa in Sydney before returning to Japan to study the limits of the discipline. “In Japan, all children learn to fold paper,” Isogawa says. “I noticed early I was very good at it, even in kindergarten. Other children would be out playing, but I would often stay at home and fold paper. There is a mathematical order you must follow; numbers and angles have to be very specific.”
His absorption in the art was disturbed momentarily when he discovered Takahiro’s even more extraordinary talent. “Ha! I thought; “My God — here is somebody better than me!” He immediately began working with his former patternmaker on discovering ever more intricate adaptations of origami to fabric. “To see what was possible.”
The evolution of some of the pair’s projects — newspaper sheets folded to create elaborate “woven” surfaces without a single cut, then adapted to calico toiles, then finally to vividly beautiful bolts of silk and wool, are mounted on rails around the gallery walls...
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Fashion/Living-dolls-from-whim-to-gallery-wall/2004/12/02/1101923265958.html
origami bag:
from the exhibition:
from the collection: