Origami Sites Around the World
This page provides links to origami web sites in other countries.Australia
Paris' Place Origami Index - http://www.accessin.com.au/~paris/origami/origami.htm - A listing of a variety of diagrams from a Picture Frame to a Camel.
Canada
** Joseph Wu's Origami Page - http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/ - The best Origami site on the web. Very thorough and well-maintained. Has a very complete listing of diagrams and links and can be searched by his site or by the links listed.
Europe
Bits of Smith Origami [England]- http://www.users.waitrose.com/~pureland - Contains a variety of sources on origami including diagrams, history notes, links and poetry by John Smith. Uses frames, but is easy to navigate.
BOS British Origami Society Home Page - http://www.britishorigami.org.uk/ - Has a diagram of how to fold a flapping crane plus a listing of links to other sites that have diagrams.
CDO [Centro Diffusione Origami] - Benvenuti! [Italy]- http://www.essenet.it/cdo/ - Contains many diagrams in categories such as Animals, Objects and People. Some are in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat) and some are in gif format. Has English subtitles!
Origami Cloud [Denmark]- http://www.thok.dk/origami.html - Contains diagrams in gif format, pictures and links to other sites.
All Oriland - The Paper's World [Russia]- http://www.oriland.com - A newly designed site to galleries and links to diagrams of the Origami World made by Yurri and Katrin Sumakovs. This site requires use of the Macromedia Flash 5 plugin, which you can get here.
Welcome to the World of Origami Sweden [Sweden]- http://hem.passagen.se/dion/ - Contains diagrams, links, and a photo gallery.
Japan
Koshiro's Animated Origami - http://www.jade.dti.ne.jp/~hatori/index.html - A very different way to show diagrams on the web. Includes free animated diagrams for a crane, water bomb, jumping frog and more.
Origami Tanteidan Home Page - http://origami.gr.jp/ - The official web site of the Japan Origami Academic Society. Contains news on the society, links to other sites, and diagrams. The home page has English subtitles and the rest of the pages has a clickable link to change the language to English.
Singapore
Francis Ow's Origami Page - http://sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~owrigami/ - Links to his original diagrams in gif format.
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This page was originally created by Melissa Johnson for The Internet course, LS5573 (Fall Semester, 1999) with Dr. Drake as a final project. The course is offered by Texas Women's University in Denton, TX from the School of Library and Information Studies. |
