Get easier to fold with a 17.5cm paper

How to fold Urinotsuru

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Then rotate the paper 90 degrees to the right.

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There are creases like this picture because you rotate the paper 90 degrees to the right.

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Fold the bottom to the blue line to make creases at the dotted lines.

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Fold the paper like this picture.

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On the other side, fold the paper like this picture.

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Then fold the bottom to the blue lines, which you have made in the previous step, to make a crease at the dotted line.

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Fold the paper like this picture.

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Then fold the bottom to the top left crease to make a crease at the dotted line.

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Fold the paper like this picture.

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Then fold the bottom to the blue line to make a diagonal crease at the dotted line.

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Fold the paper like this picture.

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Then rotate the paper 90 degrees to the left.

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There is the diagonal crease in the right because you rotate the paper 90 degrees to the left.

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Then fold the bottom to the blue line to make a diagonal crease at the dotted line.

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Fold the paper like this picture.

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Then rotate the paper 45 degrees to the right.

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There are the diagonal creases in the bottom because you rotate the paper 45 degrees to the right.

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The green lines are which you have made.

Then make creases at the dotted lines.

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Fold the yellow lines to the blue lines to make creases at the dotted lines.

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Fold the yellow lines to the blue lines like this picture.

It is better not to make creases, which will not be used, as much as possible.
By not making creases which will not be used, completed cranes will be more beautiful.

Therefore, try not to make a crease at the circled part.

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After making creases and spreading the paper, it looks like this picture.

Preparing an origami paper is completed!

Make creases

Make basic-creases, which are the green lines and the blue lines in this picture, on each square in the paper.

Squares, which you have made diagonal creases, will be made to small cranes.

Make basic-creases in each yellow square.

This picture is taken after making basic-creases in each yellow square.

Please make sure whether there are the creases, which are the green lines and the blue lines in the 3 pictures ago, in each yellow square.

Cut the paper

Cut your paper after making creases!

The diagram that I changed lines.

Cut the paper while referencing the diagram.

This is an enlarged picture.

I used a 17.5×17.5cm paper.
I left about 2mm for the length of the connecting part.

If connecting parts are long, they will tear easily.
Therefore, cut the paper so that connecting parts are not too long and not too short.

Make sure the direction of each crane

Make cranes so that the yellow lines are changed to wings.


After making sure the direction of each crane, make the model – Urinotsuru.

In the next pages, there is how to make the model.
If you try to make it by yourself, I recommend that you don’t look at the next page!

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