--- product_id: 1741911 title: "Michael LaFosse's Origami Butterflies: Elegant Designs from a Master Folder: Full-Color Origami Book with 26 Projects and Instructional Videos" price: "€ 31.75" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/1741911-michael-lafosses-origami-butterflies-elegant-designs-from-a-master-folder store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Step-by-step video tutorials (DVD + online) 112 full-color pages with clear diagrams 26 original butterfly & moth designs Michael LaFosse's Origami Butterflies: Elegant Designs from a Master Folder: Full-Color Origami Book with 26 Projects and Instructional Videos **Price:** € 31.75 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🦋 Elevate your creativity—fold elegance into every butterfly! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Michael LaFosse's Origami Butterflies: Elegant Designs from a Master Folder: Full-Color Origami Book with 26 Projects and Instructional Videos - **How much does it cost?** € 31.75 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/1741911-michael-lafosses-origami-butterflies-elegant-designs-from-a-master-folder) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Multi-Format Access:** Includes DVD tutorials plus streaming and downloadable videos for anytime learning - • **Unlock Creative Freedom:** Easily customize hundreds of variations with LaFosse’s innovative folding system - • **Perfect for Skill Growth:** Ideal for intermediate folders ready to elevate their craft with satisfying, realistic models - • **Visual Learning Made Effortless:** Full-color, large-format diagrams paired with clear step-by-step instructions - • **Master the Art of Origami Butterflies:** 26 exquisite, original designs from a world-renowned origami artist ## Overview Michael LaFosse's Origami Butterflies is a premium 112-page full-color book featuring 26 original butterfly and moth designs. It combines detailed step-by-step instructions with an innovative folding system, enabling users to create hundreds of variations. Accompanied by a DVD and online video tutorials, this collection is perfect for intermediate origami enthusiasts seeking to master elegant, realistic paper butterflies without cutting or glue. ## Description Fold beautiful papercraft butterflies with this easy origami book. Whimsical, exquisite and fragile, butterflies and moths have enchanted and inspired people for centuries. Origami artist Michael G. LaFosse is no exception. His original butterfly paper-folding techniques are a dramatic new development in origami—which some have hailed as the most important advance in origami since the first paper cranes appeared centuries ago. Hundreds of LaFosse butterflies have been featured in exhibitions around the world and his iconic designs are now eagerly sought and widely imitated by folding enthusiasts everywhere. Michael LaFosse's Origami Butterflies presents original paper folding projects from LaFosse's extensive butterfly and moth repertoire, including all his personal favorites. This collection has many rarely-seen origami designs, and several of the models illustrate new technical and design achievements made possible by the ingenious "LaFosse Origami Butterfly Folding System." This exciting new book with accompanying DVD represents the culmination of a lifetime of designing and perfecting the art of origami butterflies. It contains everything you need to create your own unique collection. This origami book contains 112 page, full-color book 26 original designs Step-by-step instructions Colorful diagrams and pictures Advanced paper folding techniques and tips Accompanying DVD video tutorials Videos are also streamable or downloadable onlineThese elegant forms—each created from a single square sheet of paper without cutting or glue—showcase the versatility of the origami folding system. All are deceptively simple, yet provide a solid foundation for creative flights of fancy in the hands of an experienced folder. Clear step-by-step instructions show you how to make hundreds of different variations by making small adjustments to a few key paper folds! Whether dry-folded from recycled candy wrappers or wet-folded from expensive handmade papers, these designs exemplify the best aspects of the paper folder's art today. Origami butterflies include: A Butterfly for Vanessa Gould The Butterfly for Robert Lang A Butterfly for Eric Joisel A Swallowtail for Guy Kawasaki The Boston Butterfly The Mudarri Luna Moth All media content is alternatively accessible on the Tuttle Publishing website. Review: Can't say enough good things about this one - I can't say enough good things about this book. It is the one that I recommend the most to people who have just started out in origami and have mastered simple models, and are looking to grow their skills with more complex ones. It is not easy to find simple-to-moderate complexity origami models that still look so closely like the real world animal or creature on which they are based. This book is filled with models that all look fantastic, and that makes it a great learning tool for newcomers: just enough complexity to challenge you, not so much that you get discouraged, and satisfying results when you are done. What's not to like? The photos are big and beautiful. The instructions are about as clear as can be, and are also printed nice and large so that they are easy to follow. For the more challenging folds that can't easily be represented in line drawings, there is the DVD to help teach you. I love this book so much I bought the Kindle version, too. The patterns are harder to follow on a Kindle, so I wouldn't start there: learn the patterns from the print book, and use the Kindle edition to "take the patterns with you" when you travel. Get this book. You can't go wrong. Review: As good as you'd hope, which means good - The thing I like about this book is that there is room to get "individual" once you figure out the base of this great origami butterfly design. But on the other side, there is a good variety of different styles already designed for you to copy. After you fold these examples, it's pretty easy to figure out some variations for yourself. Also, it's hard to "mess up," since the result will basically just be different color variations no matter what you do. It's exactly what I wanted: an attractive butterfly design to make for my friends. It's more than I wanted: there are moth designs I like, too. Then, there's even *more* that I want: the option to get creative and come up with my own (with relative ease based on the foundation designs) once I grow tired of the ones I liked right at the start. Great book! ## Features - closeouts - Arts & Crafts ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #707,272 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #144 in Biology of Butterflies #290 in Origami (Books) #1,058 in Toy & Model Crafts | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 216 Reviews | ## Images ![Michael LaFosse's Origami Butterflies: Elegant Designs from a Master Folder: Full-Color Origami Book with 26 Projects and Instructional Videos - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71htYwVvDfL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Can't say enough good things about this one *by J***S on July 31, 2016* I can't say enough good things about this book. It is the one that I recommend the most to people who have just started out in origami and have mastered simple models, and are looking to grow their skills with more complex ones. It is not easy to find simple-to-moderate complexity origami models that still look so closely like the real world animal or creature on which they are based. This book is filled with models that all look fantastic, and that makes it a great learning tool for newcomers: just enough complexity to challenge you, not so much that you get discouraged, and satisfying results when you are done. What's not to like? The photos are big and beautiful. The instructions are about as clear as can be, and are also printed nice and large so that they are easy to follow. For the more challenging folds that can't easily be represented in line drawings, there is the DVD to help teach you. I love this book so much I bought the Kindle version, too. The patterns are harder to follow on a Kindle, so I wouldn't start there: learn the patterns from the print book, and use the Kindle edition to "take the patterns with you" when you travel. Get this book. You can't go wrong. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ As good as you'd hope, which means good *by J***S on June 22, 2015* The thing I like about this book is that there is room to get "individual" once you figure out the base of this great origami butterfly design. But on the other side, there is a good variety of different styles already designed for you to copy. After you fold these examples, it's pretty easy to figure out some variations for yourself. Also, it's hard to "mess up," since the result will basically just be different color variations no matter what you do. It's exactly what I wanted: an attractive butterfly design to make for my friends. It's more than I wanted: there are moth designs I like, too. Then, there's even *more* that I want: the option to get creative and come up with my own (with relative ease based on the foundation designs) once I grow tired of the ones I liked right at the start. Great book! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great origami book! *by A***R on October 24, 2013* This book is a big thumbs up all the way ‘round. Visually, it’s a treat, even if you never make a butterfly! But don’t stop there, because this is a ‘can-do’ book. The written instructions are very clear, but the DVDs make it a near-perfect purchase. First of all, it’s fun just to watch and listen to the instructions. Then, if you get stuck on a project, just go to the instruction you need, and it all becomes clear. The first 4 butterflies I made, I didn’t even use practice paper, just jumped right in with the good stuff, and they are all lovely. With some of the later ones, I used practice paper first. Another origami book with a DVD is Origami 101 by Benjamin Coleman. I’m an “advanced beginner to low-intermediate” and I can get all the way through those two books. I’ve invested in other origami books, more advanced, and often got lost after the first several projects. A DVD with those – and better written instructions – would have helped a lot to advance me to mid-intermediate. I’ve made butterflies previously, using other instructions, but somehow they never came out exactly right because the instructions were not as clear as these. Something I really appreciate is that after the first butterfly or so, Mr. LaFosse doesn’t assume you’re a pro, he continues to provide the same good instructions as in the first project with additional helpful hints along the way. I found one little boo-boo: The written instructions for the Jan Polish butterfly leave out the inside reverse fold after step 14. The DVD includes it. It would be great if the author included papers like those he used; but of course that would raise the cost of the book by a good deal since his creations use archival paper, hand-made paper, special fine art paper, acid-free paper, etc. You can find a wide variety of good quality paper, and maybe it won’t last a lifetime, but it will last long enough. Still, it would be nice....... But look out -- you’ll want to buy more and better origami paper as you get more proficient. 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