Welcome to 21Folds
Your local South African Origami Art Store!
We design and hand fold Origami Jewellery sold here online!
We also create origami sketches, origami installation, origami plant swag… really just anything and everything origami. Check out our social media links for our unfolding adventures!
We also create origami sketches, origami installation, origami plant swag… really just anything and everything origami. Check out our social media links for our unfolding adventures!
Japanese Collections
Japanese prints with, vibrant and striking colors, based on traditional Japanese designs with symbols that represent beauty, fortune and life.
These patterns often include birds, flowers, trees, animals, dragons and geometric shapes.
African Collections
Using Africa inspired vlisco or ‘Shweshwe’ fabric prints. “Inspired by Africa, made with a technique Indonesian Batik, designed in the Netherlands, Vlisco’s heritage and design signature is a multicultural melting pot of beauty and industrial craftsmanship.” Vlisco
Van Gogh Collection
Inspired by the blue and gold colours swirled into van Gogh’s Starry Night & Starry Night Over The Rhône
Pick-up option available in Johannesburg
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Commissioned Work
Please reach out to us if you have any specific commissioned works that you would like us to do.
art@21folds.com
art@21folds.com
Read about the woman from Japan that inspire us
Kick-ass woman of Japanese history
Inspired by
Tomoe Gozen
(est. b. 1157)
Known as Japan’s fiercest female warrior. This legendary female samurai heightens the importance of female independence and achievement
Inspired by
Murasaki Shikibu
(est. 973-1031)
The pen name of a mysterious woman who lived during the Heian Period. She wrote The Tale of Genji, which is considered to be the world’s first full length novel.
Inspired by
Toshiko Kishida
(1863-1901)
One of the first Japanese feminists, Kishida was a public speaker who traveled the country during the Meiji period, speaking out on behalf of women’s rights
Inspired by
Hanae Mori
(b. 1926)
A designer who opened her own fashion house in 1951, Japan’s first and only female fashion designer to have her collections shown in Paris and New York
Inspired by
Chiaki Mukai
(b. 1952)
Not only is she a kick-ass cardiovascular surgeon but a JAXA astronaut who became the first Japanese woman to go into space in 1994.
Inspired by
Ichiyo Higuchi
(1872-1896)
The face of the 5,000 yen bill, Natsuko Higuchi (pen name: Ichiyo Higuchi) was a prominent writer and is known as the first woman writer of the modern era.
Inspired by
Sadako Sasaki
(1943-1955)
A victim of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima in WWII, this nine year old set out to fold one thousand paper cranes to grant her wish was to live.
Inspired by
Toshiko Yuasa
(1909-1980)
The first woman physicist in Japan. A student in Paris, she was forced to return to Japan in 1945, she carried a spectrometer home strapped to her back.