Preferred label

Paper-folding traditions(techniques)        

Alternative label

Paper folding traditions; letter folding traditions; Paper engineering; Papiroflexia (Spanish); origami (Japanese); Jong-i jeobgi (Korean)        

Scope note

The variety of paper engineering cultural practices employed throughout history and across the globe. Examples include jong-i jeobgi (Korea), origami (Japan), papiroflexia (Spain), drug packets, pop-up books, prayers, note-passing, and napkin folding, and zines. These traditions prioritize aesthetics and decorative intention over content security or privacy, and are therefore distinguished from letterlocking.

Parent concept

Fold       

uh-linked-data/concept/146        

Related concept                                                     

Folding sequence               

http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300435453

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT       

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

 Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/364