Last month, hundreds of paper connoisseurs descended on New York for a convention put on by OrigamiUSA, in celebration of the delicate paper arts of East Asia. The event underscores the West’s growing ...

"Part of the challenge of folding is to capture the feeling I get when I look at real animals," says Robert Lang. (Above, his 5-inch Tree Frog, opus 280.) Robert J. Lang Lang first folded his Black ...

Origami began as a ceremonial Japanese art form and has since inspired breakthroughs in aerospace engineering, medical devices, and the mathematics of folding.