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Examine, learn and discover a lot of ways to fold paper on Origami de Savoir Tout Faire.

The most complete and extensive origami site is in Vancouver, Canada and is run by Joseph Wu. He is an origami professional who regularly receives design commissions, mainly from advertising agencies.

Another origami professional and all round paper expert/user/designer is Paul Jackson in Israel. He has written many books about paper and paper techniques (not only origami). He teaches at art colleges world wide and develops new techniques for paper manipulation.

In America is a group which calls itself Origamido - The way of folded paper. They make and sell origami books and hand made paper specially for folding.

By far the largest origami society in America is OrigamiUSA. OrigamiUSA will host the 3rd International Conference on Origami in Education and Therapy (COET) on June 29, 2004 at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City. COET is a network of professionals sharing ideas and promoting continuing research on origami as an educational and therapeutic tool.

Also in America is Robert J. Lang who looks at origami from a scientific viewpoint. He has over 400 models catalogued and diagrammed, has written computer programs for designing origami models, and has worked on diverse technical and mathematical projects and developments involving origami.

In the Netherlands there is also a technical talent who is involved with origami, Maarten van Gelder who travels the world to be with people who share his interests.

Paula en Gerard have an internet site full of information from the Netherlands and the rest of the world.

In Japan have you a very sophisticated group of folders who call themselves the origami detectives. In Japanese that's Origami Tanteidan. They devise the most complicated but beautiful models. One of their most important projects is publishing reprints of old Japanese origami books such as "Hiden Senbazuru Orikata" (The secret of one thousand cranes origami) from 1797.

You find still more history, but then very detailed (a study by David Lister) on the site of Eric Andersen.

The international Envelope- and LetterFolds Association: the E.L.F.A.

Some origami societies world wide: