At One Thousand Cranes you can donate, download, print and fold an origami crane in support of Japan. www.onethousandcranesforjapan.com

Artists have created beautiful designs that can be made into origami cranes. A donation to the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund will allow you to download a design with instructions to guide you in making a crane. We are hoping many thousands of you will fold and then place your crane somewhere prominent so that it might inspire others to also focus their intent and devotion toward those in the grip of this tragedy.

As the artwork needed to be square I thought I’d take the opportunity to make my illustration work as a repeat pattern. I think I’d like to try out some more of these soon.

There’s some really lovely work waiting to be used to make a crane from Hennie Haworth, Revenge is Sweet and Rose Stallard to name just a few.