Lover's Knot Origami: Love & Romance in Japan @ RomanceClass

One tradition of the Japanese culture is origami, or paper folding. There is a special origami which creates the loverīs knot. This origami seals the message tightly within, and by writing or making a brushmark on the outside, it can always be told if anyone else tried to read it because the origami could never be folded to exactly match afterwards.

7: Fold the points up
You're almost there.


8: Pull the two wings out.
You now pull the ends out to form the knot.


Steps 5 & 6

Lover's Knot Instructions in Diagram

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