Butterfly origami - a beautiful way to refresh the familiar gray everyday life.

It is known that the butterfly origami in Japanese culture since ancient times is considered a symbol of immortality. For example, the image of a female butterfly o-cho and male me-cho on paper was used when it was necessary to decorate jugs for sake, usually at wedding or solemn ceremonies. In the modern world, the origami butterfly has a slightly different purpose. It's no secret that entomologists have a passion for this kind of hobby, like collecting butterflies. Although this hobby is highly cognitive, however, in this case, we can not do without the destruction of innocent creatures, which are distinguished by unprecedented beauty.

So, origami provides an exceptional opportunity to avoid such unpleasant situations, creating no less fascinating masterpieces.

Yoshio Tsuda, an entomologist from Japan, is the world's first collector of butterflies made of paper. Being an employee of the University of Nagasaki, he set himself such a basic task: to study mosquitoes that carry quite dangerous diseases, for example, malaria. With the help of simple variations combined with a small share of imagination, new types of paper butterflies come to life in his hands. As a rule, the origami butterfly from paper contains in its scheme a form of basic folding. Simply put, these forms are the initial ones, and then they will be used in the blanks. The forms themselves are of the square type, rectangular, triangular, and even round. Usually for beginners the butterfly origami is built on the basic classical schemes.

In order to answer the question: "How to make an origami butterfly", the scheme is given below. A simple catamaran scheme is considered basic. In fact, this form does not allow for bad lines, so you should be patient with patience. First, we need to outline four lines, of which two will be cross-shaped, and the two remaining ones will be diagonal. After that, all the corners must be folded to the center, then unfold them back.

The next step is as follows: the sides of the sheet are neatly folded to the middle. And then add the top and bottom sides of the resulting rectangle to the center of the sheet. After the procedure, each corner should be pulled from the inside. Thus, with simple manipulations and a small amount of time, you get an excellent origami butterfly. Very often, in order to extend the life of the created masterpieces, new materials are included in the technique of creating such paper butterflies. Since it's no secret that the paper can not withstand any mechanical damage. Those. Choosing the most durable material used to revive butterflies, you can create a stronger figure, which can turn out to be quite simple to implement.

Of course, thin paper can not be better suited to create unprecedented figures, because sheets of fragile paper easily folds into different designs. And butterflies origami from such a material are very attractive. However, the only problem with this material is that it does not keep shape well. To eliminate such shortcomings, special technologies were developed, one of which is called a "silver sandwich". You ask why this name? It's completely logical, because the "sandwich" alludes to the layering. A "silver" means that the most important layer is made of thin kitchen foil. In this case, figures made with this technology, perfectly keep the shape. It is better that the layer of foil is between two layers of paper, well glued on both sides. Speaking about the advantages of this technology, we can not say that with this approach, the origami figures become embossed.