OrigaMIT Meeting Fall 2011

We will be folding Michael LaFosse's Mudarri Luna Moths. Besides learning the moth, the program will introduce wet-folding Oriamido duo papers, application of MC paste during the folding process, and how Oriamido paper is made. If you are not an MIT student, please remember to bring $10.

This meeting was the Origamido Workshop.
Origamido paper is handmade and often designed for a specific model (e.g. to represent the texture and color of an animal's skin). It is made in batches of 50-100 sheets in a gradient of color and thickness. Cross-grain layering of long kozo fibers gives handmade paper much more strength than machine-made paper.
We wet-folded the luna moth using back-coated Origamido paper. Wet-folding lets you preserve the fibers in your paper - when you make a crease, the fibers bend instead of breaking. Wet-folding back-coated paper activates the methyl cellulose between the two layers of paper - when the paper dries again, it will hold its shape very well. We added methyl cellulose to the wings of the moth to give them extra stiffness.