Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.

MAKING A wish traditionally involves wishing wells, birthday cakes or shooting stars. But for eighth-graders at Oakland Mills Middle School, wishes are entrusted to paper cranes – 1,000 of them, to be ...

Modern origami was popularized throughout Japan and the United States through exhibitions of the work of Akira Yoshizawa, the grandmaster of origami, who developed a standard way to teach folding ...