Origami got it's name from 2 words in Japan which means 'Floating paper'. Today it's evolved as a modern art form where the artist's goal is to convert a flat piece of paper to a finished sculpture where one folds paper several of times with different steps to create the desired sculpture. In this art form there is no need of cuts and glue as if they'll be used it will be considered as kirigami as I mentioned before it is only done with folding. There is even another technique which is the Wet folding.
The most famous art piece is considered as 'The paper crane'.
The medium used is plain, coloured or patterned prints and the traditional paper make used in Japan is called Washi, as today different paper is used world wide such as even money notes especially the American Dollar.
Today origami is not only used as art/craft with paper, but it's even being used in engineering structures.
Origami in China is used differently too, where in their traditional funerals the burn folded paper.
Ihara Saikalm have even mentioned origami in one of her poems in 1680 named Origami Butterflies. These Origami butterflies are yet a simple origami piece where they use them in traditional weddings, called Shinto weddings. They'll be these butterflies which represents the husband and wife.
Origami was even used by Samurai warriors, where they used to exchange them between them as small gifts, even known as a good luck charm.
As tools one says that there is no special ones apart from a flat surface and the hands as it's a hand made art piece, but several other use bone folders to create sharp creases, they even use rulers, ball point embosser and paper clips for extra fingers when constructing complex models.
As to Wet folding, they'll be sprayed to keep a better shape once dried.
The paper crane Dollar origami
Wet origami Complex origami
Kirigami
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