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How to Fold an Origami Double Boat

Medium level, 15 steps. From Fun with Paper Folding (Murray and Rigney), 1928. Public domain.

The animated version shows each fold moving, one step per screen. This page shows every step at once.

All 15 steps

  1. Step 1. Start white side up. Fold in half corner to corner, then unfold.

  2. Step 2. Fold in half along the other diagonal, then unfold. The creases cross at the center.

  3. Step 3. Fold one corner to the center.

  4. Step 4. Fold the next corner to the center.

  5. Step 5. Fold the next corner to the center.

  6. Step 6. Fold the next corner to the center.

  7. Step 7. Fold the left point behind to the center.

  8. Step 8. Fold the right point behind to the center.

  9. Step 9. Fold the top point down to the center.

  10. Step 10. Fold the bottom point up to the center.

  11. Step 11. Pull the hidden corner at the lower right out to the right and flatten it.

  12. Step 12. Pull the lower left corner out to the left.

  13. Step 13. Pull the upper left corner out to the left.

  14. Step 14. Pull the upper right corner out to the right.

  15. Step 15. Fold the top half behind.

  16. Done. The double boat (Murray and Rigney, Fun with Paper Folding, 1928).

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