Hello everyone, it’s Chinese New Year tomorrow so I have another Chinese inspired project to share with you all. Chinese Thread Book These date back hundreds of years and show off the art of…

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The origami forum with the image of Laurent Sui’s gift for Madame Burgos (see previous post) mentioned a book by Maying Soong, The Art of Chinese Paper Folding. It even provided a link to an …

This beautiful, detailed, origami book is a culmination of hours of research, practice, design, and yes even math. I hope that I can save you hours of pain and frustration as you make this amazing and intricate Chinese Thread Book (Zhen Xian Bao). This idea popped into my head after seeing a random project on Pinterest. It had such an impact on me that I had to click. I then spent hours looking at all sorts of origami boxes and thread books. It is a book of folded paper boxes that are glued…

I first heard about the Chinese Thread Book from my sister-in-law in early February, 2013. Apparently textile collectors had known about them for some time before that, but this was probably about …

Thanks to the delightful kindness of Kit Tyrrell, one of my blog readers in the UK, I have received two booklets by Ruth Smith about folded books that can contain many compartments. One such book i…

I can’t believe my good luck. I’ve been reading about the Chinese Thread Book, devouring anything in print that I could find about it, scouring the internet then just thinking about and…

When I began all this —the trip down an internet wormhole chasing a particular origami folding pattern— I had no idea where it would all lead. The hunt for that set of instructions led me to an eno…