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>>71991What kind of paper do you use for your origami?
It depends. If I'm just folding for practice I use regular origami paper or Japanese foil, usually the 6 inch size, or preferably 10 inches. I used to use tissue-foil for display folds, but after a while, you learn that there are better options. To make tissue-foil use spray-glue to attach a sheet of tissue paper to each side of a sheet of aluminum foil.
Depending on the type of origami piece you will want to use either really thin or really thick paper. Insects-thin, elephants-thick. Thick paper includes elephanthide/wyndstone marble, canson, canford, watercolor and parchment papers, etc. Thin paper includes lokta, hanji, unryu, mulberry, origamido, gampi, kozo, etc. All these papers are handmade and pretty expensive. (the last two can set you back $15 a sheet, and origamido is specially made for origami and must be purchased in person for $8 a 16"x20" sheet/ $500-1200 a batch. This is the stuff that the pros use, ie. Satoshi Kamiya and Robert Lang.) Unryu and lokta are about $3 a sheet, about 25"x37". Also invest in some methyl-cellulose to put sizing, aka the glue that holds the strands together, in the paper. You can also use it to help in folding.
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