Guides
Origami looks like a memory game: learn a sequence, reproduce a shape. It is not. Almost every traditional model is built from four or five standard bases, and every base is built from the same handful of folds. Learn the vocabulary and most diagrams stop being instructions to follow and start being sentences to read.
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Paper, the Basic Folds, and Why Yours Come Out Crooked
The paper you learn on decides how much of the difficulty is you and how much is the sheet. Here is what to fold on, and the eight folds every diagram assumes you know.
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The Standard Bases, and Why They Explain Everything
Traditional origami is not hundreds of separate sequences. It is a handful of starting shapes, each of which branches into dozens of models.
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The Models Worth Learning First, and What Each One Teaches
A progression rather than a list. Each model here introduces a technique that the next one assumes you already have.