Origami Omnibus: Paper Folding for Everybody
by Kunihiko Kasahara · Japan Publications
Collection of 174 origami designs across every genre, from simple traditional models to complex ones, in 384 pages of hand-drawn diagrams. It also covers geometric and aesthetic theory, early crease patterns and practice in reading standard diagram notation. This is the classic diagram-literacy book: it builds bases and diagram reading across all skill levels. I
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