Origami with Japanese Society

About the event

Another amazing Collab!✴️

Together with the Japanese Society, we invite you to join us for next week's event: a super colourful origami workshop!

Tuesday, 30th April
6 pm to 9 pm
The Hub, 1st Floor🤙🏼💯

Since paper degrades as it ages, it is hard to come up with an exact timeline for the invention of origami. It is generally accepted that paper was invented around 105 A.D. in China. The Japanese first used paper during the sixth century. It is true that other cultures engaged in various forms of paper folding. Still, it was the Japanese who first discovered the possibilities associated with using paper as a medium for art.

Origami was initially known as orikata (folded shapes). In 1880, however, the craft became known as origami. The term origami comes from the Japanese words oru (to fold) and kami (paper). It is not known why this term was chosen, although scholars have speculated that the characters for this term were simply the easiest for schoolchildren to learn to write.