# Origami stuff **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 6, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origami-stuff/53348 "2001-02-06T14:24:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sparky\_xi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sparky\_xi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky_xi)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origami-stuff/53348/1 "2001-02-06T14:24:14Z")
Read this on someone else’s thread and then became consumed with curiosity: How do you make a rose out of paper? Seems like a cool thing to be able to do. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origami-stuff/53348/2 "2001-02-06T16:02:39Z")
'Tis rather difficult to answer in prose, so I’ll offer up a link: [http://dev.origami.com/diagram.cfm](http://dev.origami.com/diagram.cfm) Type in ‘rose’ as the search term, and you’ll get a variety of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origami-stuff/53348/3 "2001-02-06T17:53:37Z")
Careful: you can get sucked into origami very easily. My favorite origami author is [John Montroll](http://www.paperfolding.com/tolife/). You can find a lot of his simpler works on sale at Amazon for dirt cheap, or if you happen to find yourself in DC, you can check out the [Sackler Gallery Shop](http://www.asia.si.edu/shop/default.htm). A lot of my attempts at Montroll’s designs used to be on display in the shops there, but I think they’ve all been taken down now. According to one of my former co-workers, Montroll is a physicist who conceives his incredibly complex designs _in his head_ while doing yardwork, among other things. There is something infatuating about paper folding. At one point at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman sparked a paper-folding craze that had people going nuts. (According to James M. Gleick) ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origami-stuff/53348/4 "2001-02-06T19:40:12Z")
The best origami Rose I’ve ever seen was designed by Toshikazu Kawasaki, you can find it about a quarter of the way down this [page](http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/Files/models.html). If you don’t have any origami experience, this one’s gonna be kinda hard to make.