Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Mythological Creatures and the Chinese Zodiac Origami (Dover Origami Papercraft)

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A great book for growing your skills

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2021

This book of origami is truly magical. The directions are very easy to follow and the models progress in difficulty gradually. However, if you're a seasoned origamist like myself. You can through out the book. I have yet to make the three head dragon yet. But, there are many model for all ages.

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T. Kane

So Disappointed!!!

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2019

I purchased this book specifically because it had origami for the 12 zodiac symbols. I have intermediate origami skills & I'm very good at following instructions. Unfortunately, a number of steps in each of the origami projects I've tried so far have very unclear instructions. There were a number that I was eventually able to work out and I've begun to write my own explanations in the book for use in the future, but there are some instructions that have completely stumped me. In one of the projects, the Ox, the illustration figure changes without any additional fold instructions and I couldn't come up with any rationale for the inexplicable change.

Also, I found that even 8x8 origami paper was not large enough, due to the complexity of the folds upon folds.

Perhaps someone with advanced origami skills can get past the areas with unclear instructions, but as cool as the origami projects are, I would not recommend this book to anyone else.

So, disappointed!

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T. Kane

So Disappointed!!!

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2019

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Matthew Cassidy

A great book for growing your skills

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2021

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2016

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This is an excellent book! I have been folding Origami for over 18 years now, and have read/used many books. This one is impressive! It has easy to follow diagrams AND the designs of the models are surprisingly much more straightforward than I would have thought. If you are an absolute beginner, you may find it pretty difficult to fold a good number of these (Origami, like anything else, takes practice). However, if you have some experience and can fold things a bit more complicate than a traditional crane, then I'm sure you will find this one to be enjoyable :)

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Kim Southard

Origami

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2021

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My Grandson who is 7, Truly Enjoys this Book. It has helped him Create Wonderful Creations

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lifelong learner

Clearly unattainable for the beginner/intermediate learner

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2017

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Many wonderful projects, but instructions are not adequate for the complexity of the designs.

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nana M

Origami books

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2014

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I b=purchased several of these books for my 7 year old grandson when he showed some interest in the subject. He loved them. He is always making figures out of origami paper using these books. sometimes he combines the "how to" videos to complete the task when he is confused about the instructions.

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Jacqueline Flowers

Different

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2018

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Granddaughter loved it very different. Very happy with purchase.

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transittalk

hard to determine

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2012

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I have to admit this origami is the toughest to do in my life. It sure is for advance but have not been able to do almost any of them for over a year now. Nice if someone is more advance than me, but usually I am great at origami. In addition, I like the old version of this book better.

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