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    LaFosse & Alexander's Dollar Origami: Convert Your Ordinary Cash into Extraordinary Art!: Origami Book with 20 Projects & Downloadable Instructional Video
    LaFosse & Alexander's Dollar Origami: Convert Your Ordinary Cash into Extraordinary Art!: Origami Book with 20 Projects & Downloadable Instructional Video
    LaFosse & Alexander's Dollar Origami: Convert Your Ordinary Cash into Extraordinary Art!: Origami Book with 20 Projects & Downloadable Instructional Video
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    LaFosse & Alexander's Dollar Origami: Convert Your Ordinary Cash into Extraordinary Art!: Origami Book with 20 Projects & Downloadable Instructional Video

    By Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander

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    Create fun and intricate money origami using your Washingtons, Franklins, and Lincolns.

    These days, a dollar won't get you very far, but--in the right hands--a dollar bill can become a work of art. In Michael LaFosse & Richard Alexander's Dollar Origami, the world-renowned origami artist and co-founder of the eminent Origamido Studio shares twenty incredible creations specifically designed to be made out of dollar bills. Folded money models are wonderful gifts and conversation pieces, and LaFosse & Alexander make it easy for you to get started with projects ranging from "very simple" to "challenging."

    Money origami is more popular than ever, thanks to the panoply of designs and the wonderful folding qualities of the dollar bill. Many people like to give cash gifts or tips in folded money. While the classic origami folds still fascinate, money-fold enthusiasts are always looking for fresh ideas. LaFosse & Alexander's Dollar Origami is full of original designs to learn origami quickly and easily. At such a great value--folding money has never been so easy or affordable!

    This origami book contains:
    • Full color, 64-page book
    • Step-by-step instructions
    • Colorful diagrams and photographs
    • Origami folding guide and tips
    • 20 original origami projects
    • 48 tear-out practice "dollar bills"
    • 3 hours of downloadable or streamable video tutorials
    • Videos are also streamable and downloadable online
    It's no wonder that more and more people realize how fun dollar bill origami can be. Printed currency is easy to fold, remarkably durable, intricately patterned, and readily available.

    Money origami projects include:
    • The Windmill Pillow
    • Prosperity Bamboo
    • The George Washington Knot
    • Drahcir the Dragon
    • And many more…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuttle Publishing
    Release dateOct 7, 2014
    ISBN9781462915774
    LaFosse & Alexander's Dollar Origami: Convert Your Ordinary Cash into Extraordinary Art!: Origami Book with 20 Projects & Downloadable Instructional Video

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      LaFosse & Alexander's Dollar Origami - Michael G. LaFosse

      Introduction

      Dollar bill origami, or cleverly folded cash, continues to grow in popularity as people realize how much fun it is. Our printed U.S. currency is easy to fold, remarkably durable, intricately decorated, and globally ubiquitous. It is the most handy of all origami materials, and quickly becomes a fun pastime or social ice-breaker, especially when you may be killing a few minutes while waiting for someone or something.

      We all relate to the greenback. Our first childhood allowance for becoming responsible for routine household or pet chores probably gave us the bills we held for the longest time. Children must save several weeks’ worth of cash to purchase something valuable, and in the interim, the precious bills are scrutinized, counted, and now, often folded. We often assure our young folders, who worry about using up their cash by folding it, that they can quickly unfold it and spend it. In fact, if they have ever spent dollar bills without folding them first, they have not gotten their full enjoyment from their money!

      Perhaps this is why young visitors to our Origamido Studio; to the wildly popular Origami Now! exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts; to our Origami Do Experience—Waikiki; or to the Coolidge Crafts Exhibition Hall at Topsfield Fair were particularly captivated by the display of dozens of origami objects cleverly folded from cash.

      There are now a respectable number of talented origami designers and authors who specialize in time-consuming, super-complex, magnificent manipulations of money, but we strongly feel that folding a bill to become a simple and attractive tip need not take three hands and a day off.

      We recognized how wonderful the simple dollar bill folds were for introducing people to the fascinating world of folding, and our Money Origami DVD kit was Tuttle Publishing’s first foray into including our video instructions along with the printed diagrams in an origami kit. It quickly became their best selling title! We followed up with a Mini Money Origami DVD kit, and added a couple of projects with a touch more challenge to build on the basic skills represented by the simple selections in our popular primer kit.

      This Dollar Origami book and Bonus Material builds upon the lessons and skills presented in our first two money origami kits. We have included a few new, simple and fresh folds for those who may have missed out on exploring our first kit (or for when you need to produce something quickly), but we have also tried to raise the bar to create charming new models that intermediate folders will cherish as cash classics. We have also revisited the oft overlooked, yet extremely popular family of designs—multi-piece constructions assembled from multiple bills all folded the same way.

      We always enjoy compiling our favorite dollar-based creations, and regularly come up with new models that we can’t wait to share. We hope you have fun folding our new offerings: Our rocket and rabbits, the Reef Pony sea horse, and Michael’s cuddly teddy bear are sure to delight your family and friends. Whether you are making a collection for your own display, decorating a holiday tree, giving cash in a unique way, or simply saying thanks for a small favor, we hope these new designs will soon become part of your origami repertoire.

      Enjoy each piece of your money multiple times, and then use them to put a smile on the next face to see them!

      —Origamido, Inc.

      Richard L. Alexander and Michael G. LaFosse

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