Traditional model (China)

Traditional Chinese turtle

Name: Traditional Chinese turtle
Uploaded: 2015-07-26T12:32:53Z
Duration: 10 min 44 s
Description: A stylised turtle, a traditional Chinese origami whose shell is puffed up then flattened, much like the crane. A challenging fold, on video.

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This pretty stylised turtle is a traditional Chinese origami. Its final shaping, in which the shell is puffed up and then flattened, is reminiscent of folding the crane. This is why some authors think that the famous Japanese model may originally have come from China.