"like paper airplanes filling the sky / and you just have to find your own"

An interim origami report, as I make fitful progress on the scaled koi. Said fitful progress being partly because I keep getting distracted by Oo! Cool! Papers!

Because, well. Cool papers.

For starters, meet the checkerbear and his friend the maplebison. Click to embiggen:



I adore the checkerbear. Both are wet-folded from the same chiyogami washi pack as made the metabunny.

And then there's this kasane washi I got as a gift:



The photo doesn't bring it out (though you can sorta see it at the largest size), but the pattern is not printed but rather a second layer of colored fibers (I haven't translated enough of the furiganaless package to find out from what) which was then pushed into this pattern while still wet. Which is intriguing enough visually, but also a tactile delight -- it especially takes well to wet-folding:



Also, I managed to find some yuzen ("brocade") washi that's 15cm square (usually it's 10cm or 7.5cm squares), which includes the most pretty piece of paper I've ever met:



Yes, that's gold ink. I have no idea what I'm going to make with this. I'm almost afraid to make anything, which means I probably should anyway.

Any suggestions?

---L.