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The 1885 engraving of the Flapping Bird

  These Individual Design pages contain information about individual paperfolding designs taken from verifiable sources. The information provided should be accurate but, in some cases, it may not be all the information available.

Some designs, mostly those which only occur once in the literature (or in multiple books by the same author) are not recorded separately in this section. You can, however, locate information about them through the relevant Topics and Indexes page.

Some designs have many different names in the literature. In order to avoid confusion as to which design is being referred to, where I have made an Individual Design page for a design, I have given it a standard name, usually, but not always, in English, which is used throughout this site. On this page this standard name is used as the main title of the Individual Design page relating to that particular design.

If you can't find the design you are looking for on this page then try looking for the standard name I have recorded it under by using the Topics and Indexes page.

 
 
 
Tricks, Stunts and Effects
 
  The Afghan Bands / Les Anneaux Mysterieuse     The Coin Fold Magical Effect     How to Create a Stack of Liquids using Paper Cones
                     
  How to Catch Birds with Paper Cones     How to Write Neatly in the Dark     How to Flatten a Mobius Band into a Regular Hexagon with a 'Coup de Poing'
                     
  How to Cover a Book     How to Divide a Square into Multiple Smaller Squares with a Single Cut     How to Shrink a Bank Note
                     
  How to Construct a Weight-Bearing Bridge     How to Drop a Strip of Paper to Land on One Edge     The Fold and Switch Effect
                     
  The Buddha Papers     How to Make the Largest Possible Envelope from a Given Rectangle     How to Transform a Tube into a Tetrahedron
                     
  The Captain's Shirt     How to Open and Close a Paper Flower Using a Soap Bubble     How to Melt Tin in a Playing Card
                     
  How to Make a Chain from a Playing Card     How to Make Coal Gas using a Paper Cone     How to Turn a Bank Note Upside Down
                     
  The Cheesecake of Cards     The Immovable Card     How to Boil Water in a Paper Pan
                     
  How to Climb Through a Playing Card     How to Melt Lead in Paper / The Paper Furnace      
                     
  How to Pass a Big Coin Through a Small Hole            
 
 
 
Puzzles
 
 
 
 
Fold and Cut / Fold and Slit Designs
 
Including Fold and One Cut Designs
 
 
 
 
Flat Decorations
 
  The Chrysanthemum     Four Kites     The Interlocking Star
                     
  The Diagonal Cross     Four Points     The Sunburst
                     
  The Framed Cross     Four Rhombi      
 
 
 
Other Practical and Recreational Paperfolds (whose original designer is unknown)
 
(This section includes some designs which first occur, and often also mostly occur, in books by Isao Honda, and which are quite possibly his original designs. They are, however, included here for lack of any definitive proof of his authorship.)
 
  The 3x3 Wrap           Le Petit Papier / El Papelito
                     
  Abd-El-Krim     The Cut Bird-Base Fish     The Cut Phantom
                     
  The Accordion     The Mazuma Fish     The Bird-Base Pheasant
                     
  The Air Force Cap     The Flying Fish     The Flower-Pattern Photo-Frame
                     
  The Albatross     The Flapping Bird     The Pig
                     
  The Armchair / The Settee     The Flapping Dove     The Pigeon
                     
  Tab and Slit Paper Bands / Napkin Rings     The Flat Bottomed Boat     The Pipe Cap
                     
  The Paper Banger (both the single-barrelled and double-barrelled versions)     Paper Flights for Darts     The Plaited Belt
                     
  The Primitive Paper Banger     The Flounder / Drachen / Pez Raya     The Playing Card Cube
                     
  The Basic Box     The Flying Fly     The Playing Card Monk / Capucin de Carte
                     
  The Basic Packet     The Footstall     Playing Card Squares
                     
  The Basic Packet with Integral Noshi           The Paper Pop Gun
                     
  The Basket with Handle     The Fox Face     Le Porte-Allumettes / La Violetera
                     
  The Hand Basket     The Fox Mask     The Portfolio
                     
        The Frame and the Picture Frame     The Postman
                     
  The Battleship (Cut)     The Decorative Frame     The Postman's Hat
                     
  The Bed     The Froebel Star     The Printer's Hat / The Pressman's Hat
                     
  The Bellows     The Inflatable Frog / Japanese Jumping Frog     The Propellor / Helice
                     
  The Bench and the Bench wth Arms     The Cut Frog     The Puff Ball
                     
  The Bishop's Mitre / Bishop's Crown     The Waterbomb Base Frog     The Three-Piece Purse
                     
        The Jumping Frog / Business Card Frog     The Puzzle Purse
                     
  The Blotting Paper Holder / Le Sous-Main Buvard     Fukusuke     The Pyramidal Hat
                     
  The Blowpipe and Darts     Simple Fukusuke     The Cube-Corner Pyramid
                     
        The Spanish Giraffe     The Inflatable Pyramid
                     
              The Cut and Fold Skew Pyramid
                     
  The Blunt Ended Boat / Canoe     The Walking Giraffe / Le Girafe Marchant     The Simple Fold and Cut Pyramid
                     
  The Paper Boat / Paper Boat with Three Sails / The Captain's Shirt     Slit and Stretch Paper Garlands     The Rabbit Hat / The Badger Hat
                     
  The Boat with Fishbox     The Cut Goldfish     The Inflatable Rabbit
                     
        The Cut Bird-Base Goldfish     The Japanese Rabbit
                     
  The Inside Out Boat (Fune) / The Fishing Boat     The Inflatable Goldfish     The Lop-Eared Rabbit (Cut)
                     
  The Boat with Sail / Trick Boat / La Cuna     The Gondola     The Rectangular Packet
                     
  The Bonbon Bird     The Wild Goose     The Ring
                     
  The Square Hat / Le Bonnet Carre     The Standing Goose     The Six-Part Hexagonal Ring
                     
  The Dollar Bill Boot     The Hat     The Cut Robin
                     
  The Pair of Boots     The Hen with Legs     A Purse in the Shape of a Rose with Twelve Leaves
                     
  The Box with Handles / La Boite a Anses     The Cut Standing Heron     The Paper Rosette
                     
  The Blintz Box (both cut and uncut versions)     The Cut Flying Heron     The Six-Armed Rotor
                     
  The Cake Box     The Hexagonal Packet     The Sailboat
                     
  The Slit and Fold Cubic Box     The Hexagonal Incense Packet     The Salt Cellar / The Pepperpot
                     
  The Cut Half-Cube Box     The Hexagonal Knot     The Sampan / The Rainy Day Sampan
                     
  The Distorted Half-Cube Box     The Hexagonal Rosette     The Sanbo
                     
  The Cut Distorted Half-Cube Box     The Hexagonal Rosette Star and The Thin Hexagonal Rosette Star      
                     
  The Bric-a-Brac Box / Old Scholar Hat     The Hibachi     The Sanbo on Legs and its derivative designs
                     
  The Business Card Holder     The Holy Place     The Scent Bottle
                     
  The Butterchurn     The Cut Horse / Llama     The Seagull
                     
  The Flapping Butterfly     Footsoldiers / Horses and Riders / Ross und Reiter     The Fish-Base Seal
                     
  The Cut Butterfly     The Hot Air Balloon     The Shanghai Star and Basket
                     
  The Pull-Out Butterfly     The House     The Shelf
                     
        The House with Forecourt / Garden     The Shell Decoration
                     
  The Cake Basket     The Hyperbolic Paraboloid     The Ship / The Clothes Drying Boat
                     
        The Incense Box     The Ship's Wheel
                     
  The Cut Canary     The Inkwell     The Hat / The Shirt
                     
        The Improvised Brassiere     The Short Sleeved Shirt
                     
  The Carrier Pigeon / Eagle / Bird Flies Off Your Hand / The Flying Wing     The Iris     The Shovel
                     
  The Catherine of Cleves Box     The Cut Iris     The Cut Shrimp
                     
  The Chair     The Jacket     Sister of Charity (Cut and Fold Design)
                     
  The Paper Strip Chair     The Japanese Box / La Boite Japonaise     The Cut Snail
                     
  The Chameleon Game / Jeu Cameleonien     The Japanese Church     The (Cut) Paper Snapper
                     
  Paper Chains     The Japanese House     The Paper Boat Snapper
                     
  The Chessboard     The Japanese Purse (tato)     The Socks / Tabi
                     
  The Chick     The Japanese Vase     The Soldier's Cap / The Poke Bonnet
                     
  The Chickenwire Letterfold     Jiyuban (the undershirt)     The Solid Box
                     
  The Chinese Junk     The Jumping Bean     The Sofa / Organ / Piano / Chair
                     
  The Chinese Vase / La Caja Japonesa     The Junk Box     The Sou'wester / Gorro de Aguas
                     
  The Chinese Wallet / Jacob's Ladder     The Kabuto / The Samurai Helmet     The Spanish Box
                     
        The Long-Horned Kabuto     The Cut Sparrow
                     
  The Chrysanthemum Box     The Keelboat     The Fat Sparrow
                     
  The Kabuto Base Cicada / La Mosca     The Kettle and the Open Top Kettle     The Slit and Assemble Cube and Sphere
                     
  The Crossover Cicada     The Kikuzara / The Chrysanthemum Dish / The Japanese Ornamental Ball     The Tab and Slit Spill Holder
                     
  The Fold-In Cicada     The Kimono     The Spiral Snake
                     
  The Cigar Case     The Kinchaku     The Paper Spring
                     
  The Clapper     The King's Crown     The Square Letterfold
                     
  The Claw     Le Kiosque Japonais     The Square-Shaped Vase
                     
  The Cocked-Hat Note     The Flyable Kite     The Squeaker
                     
  The Cocotte / Pajarita in Western Europe 1800 to 1849     The Kite / The Hand Mirror     The Squid
                     
  The Cocotte / Pajarita in Western Europe 1850 to 1874     Kite Bows     The Stairs
                     
  The Cocotte / Pajarita in Western Europe 1875 to 1899     Komoso     The Stand / The Crib / The Seat / The Piano Stool / The Bathchair
                     
  The Cocotte / Pajarita in Western Europe 1900 to 1924     The Lantern     The Star-Shaped Box
                     
              The Simple Fold and Cut Four-Pointed Star
                     
              The Simple Fold and Cut Five-Pointed Star
                     
              The Steamship / The Well
                     
  The Cocotte / Pajarita in Western Europe 1925 to 1970     The Long Lantern     Making Paper String
                     
  The Cocotte / Pajarita in Japan     The Fold and Cut Lantern     The Sugar Tongs
                     
  The Cocotte in a Boat / Pajarita in a Boat     The Large Box     The Suit of Clothes
                     
        The Laughing Man     The Sumo Wrestler
                     
  The Folded Code     The Lighthouse Bookmark     The Lazy Susan
                     
        The Lily / Bellflower     The Swallow (paper plane)
                     
  The Collapsible Box     The Locust     The Cut Swallow (bird) / The Woodcock)
                     
  The Collar     The Cut Lobster     The Simple Swan
                     
  The Paper Cone / Grocer's Cone     The Long Box     The Swedish Star
                     
  The Flying Cone     The Lotus / Waterlily     The Table and the Tablecloth
                     
  The Corner Cabinet / The Shelf (L'Etagere)     The Love Knot Letterfold     The Triangular Tablecloth
                     
  The Court-Plaster Case     The Lover's Knot     The Tachibana / Persimmon
                     
  The Cut Frog-Base Crab     The Low Chair     The Takarabune
                     
  Another Cut Frog-Base Crab     The Magazine Cover Box     The Talking Fish
                     
  The Kan No Mado Crab     The Magic Hat / Bonnet de Magicien / Bonnete de Magico     The Teapot Stand
                     
  The Cradle     The Magic Purse / Zaubertüte     The Tematebako / The Cubical Box
                     
  The Paper Crane / Tsuru / Orizuru     Fold and One Cut Maltese Cross / Iron Cross     The Hexagonal Tematebako / The Japanese Hexagon Puzzle Box
                     
  The Cut Flying Crane     The Menko     The Tenjin Shrine
                     
  The Nesting Crane     The Minogame / Ancient Turtle     The One Fold Tent / Book
                     
  The Plump Crane     The Mirror / The Looking Glass / The Hour Glass     The Waterbomb Base Tent
                     
  The Standing Crane           The Fold and Cut Tetrahedron
                     
  The Crane Envelope     The Mitre / The Pencil Case     The Thread Container
                     
  Le Cri du Veau / Trumpet / Flute     The Tuck-in Mitre     The Three-Cornered Note
                     
  The Cross / The Double Cross     The Mobius Band     The Three Scrolls
                     
  The Cross Star     The Cut and Fold Model Aeroplane     Fold and Slit Paper Tinsel
                     
              The Tobacco Case
                     
  The Simple Crow/ Pigeon     Le Moineau (The Sparrow)     The Travel Bag
                     
  The Crow with Legs     The Monk's Hat     Troublewit
                     
  The Two-Ring Cube     The Monster Fish     The Trousers (Hakama)
                     
  The Second Construction of the Cube (Cut)           The Trough
                     
  The Fourth Construction of the Cube (Cut)     The Moravian Star     The Trough on Legs
                     
  The Fifth Construction of the Cube (Cut)           The Multipiece Tulip
                     
  The Paper Cup     The Morning Glory (Cut) / Carnation (Cut) / Hydrangea     The Turban
                     
  The Paper Cup Basket     The Cut Mouse     The Cut Turkey
                     
  The Paper Cup Cap     The Muff     The Cut Turtle
                     
  The Paper Cup Hat     The Multipiece Tulip     The Cut Bird-Base Turtle
                     
  The Cup and Saucer     The Mushikago / Le Lampion     The Twist Box
                     
  The Curate's Hat     The Mystery Box     The Urn
                     
  The Paper Dart / The Arrow     The Nagakabuto / Party Hat     The Vase / The Cravat
                     
  The Cut Star of David     The Newspaper Hat     Verdi's Vase
                     
  The Woven Star of David     The Newspaper Ladder / Newspaper Pagoda (Cut)     La Voiture de Cartes
                     
  The Non-Woven Star of David (basic and decorative versions)     The Newspaper Sword     The Wagon / El Carro
                     
  The Two-Part Star of David     The Newspaper Tent (Cut)     The Wallet
                     
  The Simple Fold and Cut Star of David            
                     
  The Devil Mask     The Newspaper Tree (Cut)     The Simple Wallet
                     
  The Dog (compound figure)            
                     
  The Doll (compound figure)            
                     
  The Chain of Dolls     The Nightingale     The Wide Wallet
                     
  The Donkey with Panniers / Pack Mule with Panniers     The Cut Nightingale     The Wall Pocket
                     
  The Donkey-Eared Dunces Hat     The Novelty Purse     The Warship
                     
  Don Simon     The Nurse's Cap     The Waterbomb
                     
  The Double Boat (Nisobune) and the Double Hulled Boat     Ocho and Mecho Butterflies     The Waterlily
                     
  Another Double Boat     The Cut Octagonal Tray     The Cut Whale
                     
  The Double Boat with Sail     The Cut Inflatable Octopus     The Simple Whale
                     
  The Double Boat with Two Sails     The Ostrich     The Whirligig
                     
  The Doubled Square            
                     
  The Double Fishbox     The Cut Owl     The Whizzer
                     
  The Dove (bird)     La Pajarita (see Cocotte)     The Wide Hat
                     
  The Cut Dove     La Pajarita Tergiversada     The Wild Man From Borneo / Le Diablotin / El Gatito / Cat's Head
                     
  The Dove (paper plane)     The Pavilion / The Pagoda / The Archway     The Windmilll and the Bicolour Windmill
                     
  The Japanese Dove (paper plane)     The Game of Paper, Scissors, Stone     The Cut and Fold Windmill
                     
  The Cut Dragonfly     The Paper Boat Hat     The Wind Wheel
                     
  Another Cut Dragonfly     The Parrot     The Winnowing Box
                     
  The Drinking Bird     The Patisserie Box     The Witch's Ladder / Devil's Staircase / Hexentrappe / Harmonika
                     
  The Duck     16th Century Dutch Patriotic Pamphlets     The Workman's Hat ( aka the Carpenter's Hat)
                     
  The Mandarin Duck     The Peahen     The Woven Basket
                     
  The Simple Duck / Seagull     The Pencil Box     The Woven Cross
                     
  The Standing Duck     The Fish-Base Penguin     The Woven Heart and Woven Heart Basket
                     
  The Dustpan     La Peniche / Le Bateau Ponte     The Yacht
                     
  Eight Squares     The Pentagonal Knot and the See-Through Pentagram     Yakko-san / Fukura Suzume / Monkey
                     
  Eight Triangles     The Pentagonal Rosette Star and The Thin-Pointed Pentagonal Rosette Star      
                     
  The Spanish Elephant     The Persimmon      
                     
  The Fifth Pig and similar propaganda fold-ins     La Petaca / The Flask     The Zigzag Corrugation
 
 
 
Selected recreational designs by known designers
 
  Adolfo's Peacock     Neale's Skeletal Octahedron     The Paperfolding Designs of Miguel de Unamuno
                     
  Honda's Compound Crab     Rhoads' Elephant     Yoshizawa's Butterfly
                     
  Honda's Compound Horse     Solorzano's Pavo Real / Peacock     Yoshizawa's Cloak
                     
  Honda's Peacock     The Sonobe Module