We first became acquainted with the story of the 1,000 paper cranes when we saw a “flock” of the origami birds at the home of a good friend. An ancient legend says that if a sick person folds 1,000 ...

Hisao Inagaki, Japan’s consul general in Seattle, displays a crane he folded Aug. 2, 2023, in Seattle. He’s been folding an origami crane and recording a daily video, sending best wishes to Seattle ...

What was meant to be a 100-day project of transforming paper into beautiful origami cranes turned out to be much more than that for artist Cristian Marianciuc. The Romanian-born translator created ...

LOS ANGELES -- An artist in Los Angeles is memorializing each of the thousands of people who have died from covid-19 in the United States with a delicate origami crane. Karla Funderburk started making ...

Embarking on a quest to make 1,000 cranes dedicated to a friend’s healing, Liz Soares finds calm and good vibes in the process. My path to creating 1,000 origami cranes began in an unlikely place: a ...

The origami cranes pour out of Whole Foods and Metropolitan Market bags, a Hammermill crate and a Häagen-Dazs box. More than 1,000 pile up on the table: hot pink cranes. Orange and yellow and green ...

A little girl in Japan once believed paper cranes can grant her a wish. The story of Sadako Sasaki, who was affected by the Hiroshima Nagasaki bombings, and her prayer cranes, continues to touch ...

Origami, which dates back to the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan, is the act of folding paper into decorative shapes and objects. Paper was very expensive to produce back then, so this was something ...

Tiny little hands of children at CanKids, an organisation in Adyar that works with children with cancer, folded origami cranes under the guidance of origami trainer Thiyaga Sekar yesterday. Within the ...

My son and I took on what seemed like a simple project: fold one origami crane every day during the pandemic. Together, we discovered over the year how making art helps people bear the unbearable. 100 ...