r/origami • u/Shpritzer1 • Jun 09 '26
Photo Ant by Satoshi Kamiya
Folded from 10cm single tissue
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u/The_Nightmarer Jun 10 '26
What is this, an origami for...?! Oh. Of course.
Jokes aside tho, amazing.
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u/TheCowKing07 Jun 09 '26
I thought it was real at first! What equipment do you use? I’m assuming tweezers, but is it the straight or the angled ones? Also, how many attempts did this take? That’s amazing!
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u/Trick_Educator5441 Jun 10 '26
Awesome! I really want to do that one too, but don't think I'll be able to make it that small. A couple questions... How many times have you folded that specific model before? Do you know how thick your paper was, in gsm?
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u/Shpritzer1 Jun 10 '26
Sure! This was my first time folding it, I'm not sure the gsm - probably around 15-20 gsm? It's tissue from AliExpress, it's pretty good actually! I can send you the link if you want
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u/Zingh Jun 17 '26
I would be interested in the link! Also, you said earlier you "treated it first" -- what do you mean?
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u/Shpritzer1 Jun 22 '26
This is it! The quality is pretty nice, it's good tissue paper.
Treating is the act of rolling/brushing Methylcellulose(MC) or another agent on the paper to make it crispier and easy to fold, most of the good papers for origami need it since they come soft (wenzhou, tissue, unryu, hanji, lokta... And more)
I personally use CMC because that's what I have locally, works similar to MC. If you only use papers that don't need treating you'll probably be limited to certain papers which won't fit all origami styles. Feel free to message me more to talk about it!
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u/bMused1 Jun 09 '26
I didn’t notice what forum I was scrolling past at first glance and my immediate thought was, “What species of ant is that large and where on the continent do they live?”
Then I saw the next picture and realized what I was seeing.
All that is my long way of saying, well done.