Since today is Easter Sunday, I'll take this chance to draw attention to my Easter Chick model on the Diagrams page. He's actually been...

A couple of posts ago we looked at two tricks using folded paper in The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) by Reginald Scot, under the title...

What is a patent? A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a...

First of all, Happy New Year to my readers (yes, both of you). I've been struggling to learn how to use this blog thing, as well as...

As a break from the "paperfolding in old magic books" theme, and while there's still time, here are two Father Christmas models to add to...

This is one of the first paper stunts that caught my attention when I started going through old magic books – probably because it often...

Apart from origami my other main interest is magic, more particularly close-up magic, and especially particularly card magic. I’ve been...

I’ve always enjoyed so-called “pure” origami, or simple folding without using scissors or glue. But there’s a whole other area of odd...

Since anyone reading this has probably come here looking for origami, it seems like a good idea to start off with something you can...

I’ve been putting this off for a long time because I had no idea how to start, or who might actually want to read it. Maybe no one? But...