Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes and figures, is useful for home decoration. With the following steps, you can learn to make elegant origami boxes out of chiyogami, ...

As a girl in Shanghai, China, Nancy Bjorge kept her fingers busy folding tiny paper boats. The shapes signified ingots, she says, and her grandmother pressed her to produce them by the hundreds.

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.