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Since about the first century AD, the time when it is believed that paper was first invented in China, people have been folding paper into various shapes. The Chinese developed some simple forms, some of which survive down to this day. When the secret of paper was ....

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.... collection of traditional Japanese figures, was published in 1845. The name origami was coined in 1880 from the words oru (to fold) and kami (paper). Previously, the art was called Orikata. Meanwhile, paper folding was also being developed in Spain. Arabs brought the secret of paper making to North Africa, and, in the eight-century AD, the Moors brought that secret to Spain. The Moors were devoutly Muslim and their religion forbade the creation of representational figures. Instead, their paperfolding was a study of the geometries inherent in the paper. After the Moors were driven out of Spain during the Inquisition, the Spanish went beyond ....