Where Did He Get Such a Large Piece of Paper
Origami: "Jim Mockford, a Japanese language teacher in Washington State, USA, reports that in the fall of 1995 a class of 20 of his students made an ori-tsuru (paper crane), out of a single sheet of paper that measured over 23 feet wingtip to wingtip. Of course there have been larger cranes made from many sheets of paper pasted together such as the Maebashi record (see above), but Jim's crane seems to be the largest made out of a single square sheet of uncut, unpasted paper. It was a great teambuilding project and a lot of fun."
In order to make a paper crane with a twenty three fit wingspan how big would the sheet of paper have to be?
And, where do you get that paper?
Of course, it must have been a handmade sheet of paper. Commercial paper machines top out at 400 inches. A paper machine that can produce a 400 inch wide sheet of paper is typically two football fields long and three stories high. And, the paper is coming off that machine at 3000 feet per minute.
posted by Jengel199 at
3:53 PM
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Hello Mr. Paper, It has already been ten years since I taught the class of Camas high school students who made the "Mega-gami" giant paper crane. Camas High is known as the Camas Papermakers because we are the home to a paper mill that has been owned by Crown Zellerback, Georgia Pacific, James River, etc. But regardless of the corporate ownership of the mill the town was once very much a mill town and so it was not unusual for a student's parent to be employed at the paper mill. Therefore when we began our discussion of the paper crane project one student mentioned that his father was in a position to assist and we acquired a donation of a very end piece that mill donated to our project and it had to be rolled out in the gymnasium to be folded by about 20 students working as a team. I have some news clippings about the project and the crane was exhibited at the World Trade Center in Portland, Oregon and at Nike's World Headquarters in Beaverton. The Camas Megagami was the largest made out of single sheet of paper at the time and we contacted the Guiness Book but they had no category approved at that time and later when they did include largest origami as a category there was no distinction made between a single sheet of paper and many sheets pasted together. I later became involved in the 1999 World's Largest Paper Crane project made of many sheets of paper and assembled in the Seattle Kingdome as described by the World Peace Project for Children. See http://www.sadako.org/largestcrane.htm. I left my teaching job in 1997 and I have been working in the software industry since but the 6 years I spent teaching at Camas were a great experience and the origami projects were a lot of fun.
Jim Mockford
Former Japanese Language Teacher
Camas High School 1991-1997
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