With a few folds, brightly-colored squares of paper transform into animals, birds, flowers, and trees. More talented origami enthusiasts also use their skills to create original works based on popular ...

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.

At nine, during the 2020 lockdown, Ishaan Gupta began folding paper almost by accident. His mother, a Furoshiki gift-wrapping artist, was learning the Japanese ...