kirigami

[ kir-i-gah-mee ]

noun

1. the Japanese art or technique of cutting and folding paper into objects or designs.

kirigami

/ ˌkɪrɪˈɡɑːmɪ /

noun

1. the art, originally Japanese, of folding and cutting paper into decorative shapes Compare origami

Word History and Origins

Origin of kirigami¹

First recorded in 1960–65; from Japanese kiri “to cut” + kami “paper”

Word History and Origins

Origin of kirigami¹

C20: from Japanese

Example Sentences

Ultimately, he found his inspiration in a book about the Japanese art of kirigami, a form of origami that incorporates cutting and slicing.

From New York Times

“One Fourth of July,” he recalled, “I went to the hammock in my backyard, and sketched out a bunch of concepts,” basing the sketches on the designs he’d seen in the kirigami book.

From New York Times

So, for example, a 2D kirigami sheet with a circular boundary will, when cut correctly, fold into a sphere.

From The Verge

The researchers’ work, which was published in an open-access paper in Nature Communications, draws heavily on their ability to predict the final shape of a gripper from the shape of the original kirigami sheet.

From The Verge

The silicon electronics — including light-emitting diodes, electrodes and sensors — are connected by spring-like metal wires made using kirigami, a form of origami that uses both cutting and folding.

From Nature