Origami Tool: Bone Folder, How to use it!?

Here is a couple of videos on bone folder. The first video is the different type of bone folders that available on the market:

Origami Tool: Bone Folder

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A bone folder or bonefolder is a dull edged handtool used to fold and crease material in crafts such as bookbinding, cardmaking, origami and other papercrafts where a sharp crease or fold is needed.

Often made from the leg bone of a cow, deer, or similar animal,there are also synthetic alternatives made from plastics. However those made from bone may be less prone to leaving residues on the workpiece. 

In Japanese bookbinding the equivalent folding tool is traditionally made from bamboo, although a Japanese fabric marking tool ("hera") or Western bone folder may be substituted.

The bone folder is also used for marking fabric where a temporary mark needs to be made without damaging the material.

I love folding paper using bonefolder as it  the sharp and accurate crease or fold a paper. The end result is very precise and sharp compared by folding a paper using hand and finger nail. Although, it is very hard to find one in bookstore or shops in Malaysia. You can substitute it with plastic ruler.

source: wikipedia.org

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Origami Tools: Paper

 picture source: wikipedia.org

The first an for most tools you definitely going to have to fold origami or any papercraft obviously is paper or paper like material. Almost any laminar (flat) material can be used for folding; the only requirement is that it should hold a crease.

Paper used for origami can range from the very simple and easily available Printer Paper to the specially designed Origami Paper and here are some of it that mostly use in paper folding:

• Origami paper, often referred to as "kami" (Japanese for paper), commonly sold in bookstore in small pack, usually squares of various sizes ranging from 2.5 cm (1 in) to 25 cm (10 in) or more. It is commonly colored on one side and white on the other; however, dual coloured and patterned versions exist and can be used effectively for color-changed models. Origami paper weighs slightly less than copy paper, making it suitable for a wider range of models.
• Normal copy paper with weights of 70–90 g/m² can be used for simple folds, such as the crane and waterbomb.
• Foil-backed paper is a sheet of thin foil glued to a sheet of thin paper. Related to this is tissue foil, which is made by gluing a thin piece of tissue paper to kitchen aluminium foil. A second piece of tissue can be glued onto the reverse side to produce a tissue/foil/tissue sandwich. Foil-backed paper is available commercially, but not tissue foil; it must be handmade. Both types of foil materials are suitable for complex models.
• Washi is the traditional origami paper used in Japan. Washi is generally tougher than ordinary paper made from wood pulp, and is used in many traditional arts. Washi is commonly made using fibres from the bark of the gampi tree, the mitsumata shrub or the paper mulberry but can also be made using bamboo, hemp, rice, and wheat.
• Paper money from various countries is also popular to create origami with; this is known variously as Dollar Origami, Orikane, and Money Origami.

However origami as an art which use a lot of paper and does not deem it to be environment friendly. Keeping in mind the importance of trees for our environment, try to minimize the wastage of paper and make sincere efforts to fold the designs of Origami with previously USED PAPER, unless you are doing it for a professional purpose.

Please share this and save our environment.

Happy folding.

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info source: wikipedia & learnorigami.blogspot.com