This rose is absolutely beautiful and the whole thing is folded from a single note. Image source: Turkey, Designed by Janessa Munt and Folded by Xun Here’s another excellent model once again folded from U.S. Video Instructions available from Tadashi Mori’s YouTube channel Image credit: Little Wukong, Designed by Tran Trung Hieu and Folded by Hare It’s a little version of Sun Wukong from Chinese mythology. This is definitely one of the cutest little paper monkeys I’ve ever seen. The whole thing, all 3 train cars is from the same dollar bill! Image source: Mooser’s Train, Designed by Emmanuel Mooser and Folded by Xunĭiagrams available in Moosers’ Train: The Origami Train Set This train is another very popular model to fold out of paper money. Image source: Fish, Designed and Folded by Tan Dang Here’s another fantastic fish design folded from a 500 Vietnamese Dong note. Image source: Bull, Designed and Folded by Dang Anh Kien It’s folded from the same Vietnamese bill as the piranha earlier in this post. Next we have this absolutely fantastic 3D bull design. Image source: Dog, Designed by Janessa Munt and Folded by Alexandr Pakĭiagrams available in The Dollar Bill Origami Book This cute little dog is folded from a single U.S. Image source: Tea Time, Designed by Tomohiro Tachi and Modified and Folded by XunĬrease pattern with collapsing instructions for the original available from Tomohiro Tachi’s YouTube channel This next model is usually folded from a square but here the folder modified the design and folded it using a U.S. Image source: Half Frog, Designed and Folded by Hare Here’s a tiny and kind of cute little frog. Image source: Rhino, Designed and Folded by Tan Dang Some of these models are folded from multiple notes such as this rhino which is folded from three pieces of Vietnamese money. Image source: Horse, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Giang Nam I believe this is folded from Vietnamese money. I absolutely love this horse, it’s pose and the whole photo overall. Image source: Designed and Folded by Alexandr Pak Here’s another plant-in-an-object, this time a shoe folded from a Russian note. Instructions available in The Origami World of Neal Elias Image source: Elephant, Designed by Neal Elias and Folded by Xun I really like how it’s standing on the pennies which you can also use to get the scale of the model. Here we have a fantastic little elephant money origami folded from a U.S. Image source: Death, Designed and Folded by Hare Next we have this adorable little Grim Reaper folded from 10 Russian Rubles. Image source: Koi, Designed by Won Park and Folded by 簡單的度過-2ĭiagrams available in Dollar Origami: 10 Origami Projects Including the Amazing Koi Fish The whole thing is folded from a single U.S. You can’t have a post about dollar bill origami without including probably the most famous model out there, Won Park’s dollar koi. Image source: Piranha, Designed and Folded by Tan Dang It’s hard enough designing an awesome piranha like this but to have it also incorporate the pattern on the bill to make the face and eye is a fantastic touch which couldn’t have been easy. This is exactly why I like origami folded from money so much. Here we have a piranha folded from a 1,000 Vietnam Dong Note. Video instructions available from Mariano Zavala B.’s YouTube channel Image source: Flower in a Pot, Designed by Herman Lau and Folded by Alexandr Pak just made an excellent YouTube video showing how to fold it too. This flower pot is pretty awesome and the whole thing is folded from a single U.S. Image source: Cobras, Designed and Folded by Xun dollar bill cobras are pretty awesome, especially the little faces. Image source: Spiral, Designed and Folded by Hare I’m not really sure how you would twist the paper like that. Image source: Ryujin, Designed and Folded by Alexandr Pak

I’m not sure what country those bills are from but I’m loving the colours. Here we have an absolutely beautiful Eastern-style dragon folded out of a ton of different bills. Image source: Chicken, Designed and Folded by 簡單的度過-2 Up second is this excellent chicken which looks to me like it’s folded from a U.S. Image source: Caterpillar on Leaf, Designed and Folded by Tan Dang More and more countries are switching over to plastic bills and as nice as that money is it’s just not the same not being able to fold it.Īnyways, lets take a look at some awesome looking origami models folded from paper money from countries all around the world.įirst up is this absolutely beautiful caterpillar on a leave folded out of a believe a bill from Vietnam. Plus every country uses different designs and colours on their money so you can end up with some really unique papercraft models. Traditionally one uses a square sheet of paper when folding but when you use money you have to deal with rectangles of various aspect ratios since every country’s money is a different shape. I’ve always really liked things folded from paper money, Money Origami.

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