![]() ![]() Traditional Origami Lily Flower Instructions This lily flower from The Spruce Crafts is ideal for beginners and can be made in 5 minutes. Simply follow the step by step instructions and you’ll have a beautiful paper flower.Everybody knows about origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. But what is it that can make origami so magical, so engaging and so deeply touching? Origami is the art of paper folding similar to napkin folding from Japan. Therefore, origami flowers bring us back to the bountiful history spreading across the Japanese culture, social system and all islands. The name of origami is derived from Japanese terms oru, which means “to fold”, and kami, meaning “paper”. ![]() Having been invented in China at the very beginning of the second century AD, paper entered Japan four centuries later, brought to the country by monks. Handmade and rare, paper was a luxurious commodity, available only to the richest. Therefore, origami was intended to be used during religious ceremonies only at first. ![]() Origami was developing greatly over centuries and when Edo period began with the sixteen hundreds, it has already become a leisure activity, although it kept the ceremonial purpose it originally had. The progress of paper production made origami widespread and affordable, while skills and forms of paper folding developed, making it a very special form of art. The first written instructions for making items out of paper date back to the late seventeen-hundreds, tracing to the famous “secret to folding one thousand cranes” book, or Senbazuru Orikata, by Akisato Rito. In the mid eighteen-hundreds, Adachi Kazuyuki teamed up with Kaya Ragusa and issues a more elaborate textbook in origami. The end of the 19th century was marked with the appearance of the name for this noble art as we know it today, switching from “orikata” to origami. Paper folding art was not indigenous to Japan alone, but it had appeared in Europe as well. When the Moors entered Spain, they brought this skill with them, it spread across the Pyrenean peninsula and then across the whole of Western Europe, becoming common in the 19th century. Still, Japanese style origami maintained its special form, meaning and charm. While traditional origami was passed down through generations orally, modern origami is generally recorded in books, often developed and reinvented by contemporary designers. ![]()
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