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Start your review of Tomoko Fuse's Origami Boxes: Beautiful Paper Gift Boxes from Japan's Leading Origami Master (Origami Book with 30 Projects)

First, and most important (to me at least):

Most of these are NOT in Fabulous Origami Boxes or Joyful Origami Boxes: A Basic Book for Beginners. A few simple things are repeated, like square box bases. One of the triangle methods is in Joyful.

I can't compare to Quick And Easy Origami Boxes, as I gave it away. It was primarily simple designs (hence why I didn't need to keep it), so I expect overlap with this volume is limited.

Some of the methods are close, like for hexagons. There are also variant

First, and most important (to me at least):

Most of these are NOT in Fabulous Origami Boxes or Joyful Origami Boxes: A Basic Book for Beginners. A few simple things are repeated, like square box bases. One of the triangle methods is in Joyful.

I can't compare to Quick And Easy Origami Boxes, as I gave it away. It was primarily simple designs (hence why I didn't need to keep it), so I expect overlap with this volume is limited.

Some of the methods are close, like for hexagons. There are also variants of some of the earlier square designs. I can't be completely sure of the extent of some differences without folding them consecutively.

Second:
The new styles are nice.

The cover shows several of the dome lid patterns, which are fabulous. They are also single sheet patterns and end up quite small and a bit flimsy, so plan accordingly. There are flowery square boxes using a symmetric module I'm unfamiliar with, though it's quite simple and may just be something I've missed until now.

There are also rectangular sheet patterns for oblong hexagons which I like the look of, though I've not folded any yet. There are NO heptagons.

Third:
All the modular styles are closer to Fabulous Origami Boxes than to Joyful. This means that the hexagon and octagon styles are going to be a bit flimsy (the single sheet squares are naturally flimsy as well).

This is a nice supplement to Fabulous, but is less in depth overall to both of the earlier books. Joyful is still the best book for non-square designs, and the square boxes in Fabulous are more adaptable. I would go for Fabulous Origami Boxes over this as a starting point.

I still really like it and plan to add it to my collection, because boxes are one of my favorite things to fold.

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The directions take a little bit of figuring out, and sometimes the steps seem to skip parts. I found the illustrations to be more helpful than the directions. The harder the box, the fewer directions, which seems ridiculous to me, but I'm also kind of a dunce at paper-folding. I have made many masu boxes with the directions from this book. The directions take a little bit of figuring out, and sometimes the steps seem to skip parts. I found the illustrations to be more helpful than the directions. The harder the box, the fewer directions, which seems ridiculous to me, but I'm also kind of a dunce at paper-folding. I have made many masu boxes with the directions from this book. ...more

Cute boxes, I only made one, but the instructions were simple and easy to follow. I like that there are tips about their symbols at the beginning. They also show color difference for front and back of paper.