Kirigami is the next level of origami. While origami is all about folding paper, kirigami takes it a step further by cutting ...

By using leaf skeletons as templates, researchers harnessed nature's intrinsic hierarchical fractal structures to improve the ...

"Kirigami, much like knitting ... predict how a piece of fabric will shape itself just by changing the stitch pattern, we can start designing textiles with built-in functionality," Dion says.

Darryl Bedford, 55, from Fulham in west London, creates paper art, which he calls drawstring origami, using a combination of techniques including origami, the art of folding paper, and kirigami ...

Perhaps the most interesting part is how much of these technologies borrow from the Japanese art of origami, and the related kirigami. Rather than trying to build three-dimensional structures ...