Origami USA posted on its website a gallery with beautiful pictures of origami models published in calendars of 2005 and 2006. Scanning through the gallery, a photo of a cat created by Hiroaki Takai (Japan) caught my attention. I loved the simple, elegant lines of this model, which evokes the essence of a cat with such few folds.
I immediately set out to fold this cat and was intent on achieving it just by looking at the photograph. But I decided to try my luck first and search for the diagrams on the Internet.
A beautiful origami cat is not found every day, and much less the instructions to fold it, but to my good fortune, I found the diagrams to learn how to fold Hiroaki Takai’s origami cat. Takai’s original cat is the yellow one, folded from a ratio 2:3 rectangle. The black cat is my variation, folded from a 1:2 rectangle.
I worked with thick Canson paper. My choice color honors my niece’s cats, which are having a birthday these days. The male cat, Tjap, is yellow, and the female cat, Tjoy, is black.
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Love this! Thank you for finding the pattern. Your standing variation is fantastic!
Hi! I found your blog fairly new and really like the fact that you try to help us with your videos on every new pattern. I like diagrams too but videos are always the best. So thank you:)
Love the first cat but I think yours is better :) Was wondering if you plan to add that cat’s diagram too? I would love to fold it as a surprise for one of my cat-lover friend .
Hi Newrum,
Thank you for your input and nice message. Regarding the upright cat… I’m sorry I do not have diagrams or instructions to share. All I can tell you is that I used paper whose proportions were 1 unit by 2 units (for example: six inches by twelve inches) and swiveled the head in a way that the rest of the body could be set in a vertical position.
I’m not too happy about the tail, and I feel I need to work on it a little more to be worth making a video about it. I think this is a cat still in process… I recommend you play with how its head can be moved. By doing this, you can arrive at an upright cat with no tail, but still effective. As for paper, I have been successful using Canson paper.
I’m planing a video for a cat, not this one for the moment, but I’ll keep it in mind!
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