Traditional Crane from Unfired Clay
I folded this crane from a sheet of unfired clay. Details in the related blog post.
Figurative single-sheet origami
Figurative models are those which represent some real-world object.
This page lists models of a single type. You might be interested in folding instructions instead.
Row Boat
This simple origami boat has oarlocks and what looks like initial fragments of oars inside the hull.
Traditional Boat from Cheese Tray Paper
This little paper boat is folded from a sheet of paper used as a tray inside a sliced cheese package. The paper seems to be coated with plastic, which makes ...
Out of Darkness
The idea for this design had been in my head for several years before I finally folded it in August 2023. I’m not really happy about the execution, though.
Bull Head
A simple head of a bull, with color-change horns. Can be considered a variant of Buffalo Head.
Buffalo Head
A very simple model representing a buffalo’s head with curved horns. Bull Head is a variant.
Tea Tag Frog
A simple frog, based of the traditional jumping frog, and folded from a tea tag.
Traditional Crane from Wax Wrapper
I folded this traditional crane from a wax wrapper (Polish: woskowijka). These are sheets of fabric soaked in beeswax, and advertised as a reusable, eco-frie...
Baby Elephant
I folded this model in a workshop with the late Artur Biernacki at the 2016 convention of Polish Origami Society.
MinBird II
Another attempt at making a minimalistic bird, this time from a full square, which allowed me to include a tail (MinBird I is folded from a square cut diagon...
Pureland Ladybug
Compared to Ladybug 1.1, this one has a much less refined shape, and lacks any color change. However, it is much simpler to fold, being pureland, which means...
MinBird I
A minimalistic, almost abstract bird, folded from a square cut diagonally in half. Compare with MinBird II.
Tea Tag Boat
Yet another way to fold your tea tag, this time producing a design similar to the traditional paper boat. Proportions are different (depending on those of th...
Java Duke
I got this nice viking-style Java Duke from the organizers of JavaZone. Quick origami sketch on the right. It was great to be here. Thank you!
Coffee Cup (CFW 200)
This model is one of Fujimoto’s few figurative origami designs, but a very distinctive one. I really like it for its simplicity and elegance. Despite being a...
Daffodil
This design is derived from Star a la Fujimoto III. Central part is raised, and has a color change, just as many kinds of real daffodil. In this fold I think...
Crane (Window Blind Fabric)
I folded this traditional crane in order to test a new folding material: fabric used for roller window blinds. Despite the fabric being quite thick, I was ab...
Tea tag Hedgehog
A one-fold hedgehog, part of my series of tea tag origami models. Design from 2019. Folding the tea tag is a good way of making your cup stand out from others.
Lily
This model is derived from my Star a la Fujimoto variants, which can be seen on the petals. I think for this model three-dimensional shaping with curled pet...
Hex Snake
This snake is just a strip of paper that I cut off the side of an A4 sheet with a hex grid so that an integer even number of grid divisions was left on the r...
Elephant
This elephant by Fumiaki Kawahata is very cute (I think I’ve seen it getting called Baby Elephant). I folded this one at a workshop given by Margret Bach dur...
Tie
I designed this origami tie in order to illustrate a point I’m going to make in a not yet published part of my series on origami classification. The point is...
Rabbit
A simple rabbit, designed by Taiko Niwa.
Terror from the Deep
I slightly damaged a sheet I wanted to use for something else, so I thought I’d do some crumpling and created this claw. The name came by itself, but then I ...
Trampling the Serpent
Wet-folded from an A4 rectangle of Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth watercolor paper.
100 Złoty Frog
Polish banknotes have 2:1 proportions, a square folded in half. This makes them good for adapting models folded from square paper. I came up with the idea of...
Crane from RFID Chip
In late 2016, I folded this traditional crane from an RFID chip identical to the one on which the crane is sitting. The sheet was very small, so this experim...
120-Degree Boat
This design is an analog of the traditional paper boat but folded from a hexagon. The 120° angle at the top of the sail results in a more slender boat than t...
Toilet Paper Snail 1.1
A snail folded from a complete roll of toilet paper. This is version 1.1 — version 1.0 lacked the back part of the body extending beyond the shell. Adding it...
Crane with Color Change (Left-Right)
This variant of the Traditional Crane adds a color change along the axis of symmetry. It’s a very simple change, based on blintzing, and I’m pretty certain I...
Snail
Last Friday (2022-08-19) I was folding with a bunch of friends and someone asked if I could fold a snail. I didn’t know any such model by heart, so I improvi...
Crown from Strip
This model is very simple, and you can probably easily reverse-engineer it even without much origami experience. Once the strip is folded into the zig-zag sh...
Apple (CFW 202)
Shuzo Fujimoto’s Apple is one of his best-known designs. Though one of his relatively few figurative models, structurally it is deeply geometric, being based...
Easter Egg
Decorating Easter Eggs is a popular Easter tradition in Poland, Ukraine, and other Slavic countries. This one is folded from a single sheet of paper rather t...
Column of Flagellation
Originally, this work was supposed to be a joke, and to get a punny title such as Vertebral Column or Ribbed Column. However, while I was working on it, my v...
In Ukrainian Steppe
The steppes of Ukraine with their endless open spaces, occasionally lined by kurgans, have long been considered a place full of mystery, mood, adventure, and...
Traditional Jumping Frog
Jumping frog, one of my favorite traditional models, and an example of action origami.
Tea Tag Butterfly
A simple butterfly, folded from a tea tag. Folding the tea tag is a good way of making your cup stand out from others.
Hedgehog (Glassine)
Another fold of my Hedgehog, this time from Glassine paper.
Bible
After a book with a face on the cover (called Biography), I designed a book with a Maltese Cross on the cover (aptly called Bible). This model’s design is ba...
Rocket
This rocket is a very simple to fold model I designed for an astronomy-themed origami workshop. The rocket can stand on its own thanks to a “foot” which can ...
Moon
A simple model of the crescent moon, designed for an astronomy-themed origami workshop. Proportions can be varied to some degree, producing different phases ...
Carrot
Another shaping variant of Ice Cream model, this time resembling a carrot. Using white+green color combination instead of orange+green will get you parsley i...
Ladybug 1.1
When Sara Adams prepared a videotutorial for my Ladybug, she came up with a few improvements which not only gave the model convenient reference points for fo...
Red and White Hare
Two Dollar Bill Hares, looking at each other.
Dollar Bill Hare
This is one of my favorite origami animals: simple to fold, quite realistic but also a model with its own character.
Pajarita
The Pajarita (little bird in Spanish) is one of European traditional origami models, especially popular in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
Traditional Crane
The traditional crane, often considered a symbol of origami. It is also probably the model most often referenced in metaorigami.
Bed
A simple origami bed with color-change for the bedsheet. My design from late 2019.
Traditional Crane from book wrapping foil
I folded this crane as an experiment from Herlitz book wrapping foil, and to my surprise, it proved to be a rather nice folding material. Since the foil is a...
Hedgehog from Sponge Cloth
Hedgehog, wet-folded from a household sponge cloth. Have a look at my review of this untypical folding material.
Witcher’s Wolf Medallion
Wolf Medallion from The Witcher series. Folded from a hexagon of metallic paper.
Life-Size Desk Lamp
This is a life-size fold of my desk lamp origami model. I cheated a little by putting a metal profile inside the post since the paper I used had too little s...
Biography
This origami book features a portrait on the front cover, so I called it Biography. The structure of the book is basically the same as in my Long Story Short...
Book with Diamond on Cover
Recently, I gave an Origami Connect workshop on my origami book model Long Story Short. Preparing for the workshop motivated me to revisit an idea which I ha...
Long Story Short (gray)
On August 2nd, 2020, I’ll be teaching my origami book model, Long Story Short, in an online Origami Connect session, organized by OrigamiUSA.
Triceratops
I really like this triceratops design by Roman Diaz. Most dinosaur models, especially triceratops, are quite complex. This one, in contrast, is so simple you...
Torch
This origami torch is basically the same model as Ice Cream, just with different colors and shaping.
Ice Cream
Ice cream, own design. This model can be folded from regular Kami, but I think it looks best when wet-folded from thick watercolor paper. Here, one side of t...
Submarine
A simple, one-sided origami submarine I designed a while ago.
Fear Not
Fear not. Stay home. Be patient. 2 × origami eye, wet-folded from watercolor paper.
Ad Astra
I prepared this composition as decoration for the room where I would be holding origami workshops related to my exhibition at Olsztyn Planetarium. During the...
Wet-folded Eye
I designed this model for my origami workshops in order to be able to teach wet folding to complete beginners. It is also an example of origami folded withou...
Laptop
This is another model I designed for a workshop about contemporary origami, with the aim of demonstrating some techniques used in modern origami design while...
Tea Tag Airplane
Traditional origami airplane, a part of my series of tea tag origami models. Folding the tea tag is a good way of making your cup stand out from others.
JavaZone Logo
Folding origami during a break at JavaZone 2019 after an interesting talk about JVM performance tuning by Chris Thalinger.
Hedgehog
I designed this model especially for the workshop which accompanied my presentation about contemporary origami at the Embassy of Japan in Poland. While rathe...
Spider’s Web
Ben Goldberger is an interesting origami artist from Israel whom I had the opportunity to meet at CDO Convention 2018. You should definitely check out his wo...
Superpuss
Oriol Esteve taught this fun model of his during one of Origami Connect classes.
One Hand Washes the Other
I got the idea for this model after a workshop with João Charrua at last year’s CDO convention. The structure of an individual hand is taken directly from on...
The Little Prince and the Fox
Le Petit Prince, designed by Viviane Berty, and Fox Baby, designed by Daniel Chang. Folded and arranged by me.
Ladybug
I haven’t had time to prepare any current-year-related model this year, so here’s an older model of a completely different kind: a simple ladybug with color ...
Unripe Sunflower Tessellation
This is a modification of my Sunflower Tessellation. The molecules (“sunflower seeds”) are flatter and the petals are shorter. The back side is also more int...
Sunflower Tessellation (3×3) with Molecule Variants
This model shows how the basic molecule of my Sunflower Tessellation can be modified in order to rearrange the direction the individual “seeds” are pointing....
Sunflower Tessellation (Refold)
It took me 1½ years before I decided to fold my Sunflower Tessellation once again, this time from rare yellow Elephant Hide paper. I think this is a better ...
Mini Sunflower (Kaiser paper)
Mini-Sunflower Tessellation, folded from Kaiser (Stark) paper.
Crane with Colored Wings (Origamido paper)
Another fold of my Crane with Colored Wings, this time from Origamido double tissue paper (courtesy of Michael Lafosse and Richard Alexander).
Crane with Colored Wings
This is a variation of the traditional origami crane which I recently designed: there is a color change giving the wings a different color than the body. I h...
Big Paper Boat
A large paper boat (1.5 m long), folded to test the feasibility for origami of thick double-layer corrugated board (see blog post for details).
Fat Penguin
Once in a while, I design something other than a tessellation or a box. This geometric penguin model came about during Outdoor Origami Meeting as I was playi...
Elephants in Love
I designed this model, based on my Simple Elephant, for the wedding of two origami friends, Marcin and Natalia. Folded from a single 5:1 strip of red-gold Wa...
Nuclear Mushroom Cloud
This is what happens when you execute an origami crumpling technique such as those mastered by Vincent Floderer but instead of thin and crisp paper, use thic...
Crown
An origami Crown (my own design), pictured sitting on top of a pomelo fruit. The crown is folded from a long strip of Gampi paper which was left over when I ...
Chess Knight
A recent origami design of mine — chess knight with a corrugation-based mane.
Celtic Cross 1.1
An improved version of my Celtic Cross. Based on standing crosses found throughout the British Isles.
Trilithon I
An origami Trilithon based on those found at Stonehenge. The model is numbered I since I also designed some other variants with different proportions and one...
DNA Replication
My modification of Thoki Yenn’s DNA model. Folded from a long strip (1:8 or so) of metallic paper.
Cat
I folded this model in order to test what folding origami from felt would be like, and I summarized my impressions in a separate blog post.
Thermos
This is what one of the stages of collapsing my Big and Small Squares Tessellation looks like. I couldn’t help but think of a thermos bottle. The extra textu...
No-Fold Stegosaurus
It’s been more than 20 years since Joseph Wu designed his one-fold stegosaurus. Now, with the recent advancements in minimalistic origami and computer-aided ...
Long Story Short (Jugendstil-style paper)
A fold of Long Story Short book model from gift wrapping paper with an Art Nouveau motif made by Krone, designed by Ela Pleis.
Simple Elephant
A simple elephant seen from the front, folded from a square. This is basically the same design as the business card holder and Elephant Bookmark. A minimalis...
Mini-Sunflower
This is a minimalistic version of my Sunflower Tessellation, folded from a 16×16 grid. It consists of just a single molecule surrounded by petals, and thus c...
Sunflower Tessellation
My new tessellation design, folded from a single sheet of Tant paper.
Scroll of Time: 2017
I wanted to try something new this year, so I folded this model from thin parchment paper whereas most of the time I use much thicker papers. Modern parchmen...
Penguin
See also the Penguin Attack composition which uses this model.
Penguin Attack
A giant penguin (designed by Blanka Pentela (Blunek) ascending King-Kong style the Palace of Culture and Science. This 250 m tall building was erected in War...
Celtic Cross
This free-standing cross was inspired by high crosses — stone monuments erected throughout the Middle Ages in Ireland and Britain.
Prayer at Sunrise
Wet-folded from watercolor paper.
Genie in the Bottle
A genie (not to be confused with gin) is a kind of_spirit_ which tends to live in old magical lamps and bottles. Wet-folded from a rectangle of watercolor pa...
Professor Mmaa
Professor Mmaa’s lecture is a novel by Polish-English writer Stefan Themerson in which termites try to understand the human society which is so different fro...
Toilet Paper Hedgehog
Pureland Hedgehog, designed by Sebastien Limet and modified by me for folding from the loose end of a toilet paper roll.
Puppy in Front of a Doghouse
A Business Card Puppy (Larry Stevens) sitting in front of BBU doghouse (Michał Kosmulski).
I Walk the Line
Master Yoda — origami model designed by Artur Biernacki. Folded by me from a square of Tant-tissue paper sandwich.
A Pile of Books
Origami books of different shapes and sizes. The model used here is my Long Story Short, version 1.1 which has a slightly improved lock.
A Dog Reading
Reading matters.
Dachshund
The Dachshund (Perro Salchicha) is a very cute dog model I immediately liked when I first saw it. I also designed a doghouse in matching style.
Dachshund (from Washi paper)
The dog is standing in front of a doghouse I designed specially to match this model.
Dachshund in Doghouse
Yara Yagi’s dog is standing in front of a doghouse designed be me specially to match this model.
Ichthys
Easter is coming so with fluffy bunnies and cute chickens aplenty, it’s good to also add this fish to the pack.
A Long Way Home
Origami mammoth, designed by Artur Biernacki. Folded by me from a square of Unryu-tissue paper sandwich.
Epiphany II
This is my second attempt at designing a Star of Bethlehem (which can also double as a regular comet). After designing it, I found online pictures of a simil...
Epiphany I
Depending on context, this origami corrugation can be used as the Star of Bethlehem or just a standard comet. Designed and folded by me.
Hare under a Christmas Tree
Dollar Bill Hare designed by Barth Dunkan, Christmas Tree designed by Artur Biernacki.
Long Story Short
This is my design for an origami book. It’s called “long story short” because you can make the book as long as you wish (any number of pages) and at the same...
Here, Kitty
Cat designed by Jose Anibal Voyer. Copy paper painted with acryl.
Head of Cthulhu
Head of Cthulhu from The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft. Designed and folded by me.
Dachshund Ouroboros
The ouroboros is an ancient symbol of infinity and self-reference. It is represented as a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. This one has assumed the for...