The origins of origami

The development of paper folding in the west can be traced back to a company of Japanese jugglers who visited Europe in 1860.

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The jugglers brought with them the method for folding the “flapping fog”.

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Paper folding, of course, begun long before- in fact nearly two thousand years before, with the invention of paper in China in 105 A.D.

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For more than five hundred years the Chinese kept the paper-making process a secret.

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The document shows that the Spanish symbol of paper folding, the pajarita, or little bird, existed in the seventeenth century.

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Elsewhere in Europe, the art of paper folding was echoed in decorative napkin folds.

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The Japanese tradition of folding paper is a long and continuous one.

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The Japanese tradition of folding probably began in the sixth century, when a Buddhist priest brought paper-making methods to Japan from China by way of Vietnam.

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In the 1890s, the Japanese government introduced a widespread system of preschool education, and origami was introduced as a tool for bringing minds and hands into coordination.

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Since the 1950s, interest in origami has proliferated in the United States and Great Britain as well as Japan.

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