DON'T look now but in Nick Robinson's new origami book there are instructions for a model of a dog which poops.
It caused a bit of a fuss when it was first made back in the Eighties.
"It was put on a table in an exhibition and someone complained. So they put a box over it and labelled it censored," says Nick.
The publishers of Origami Kit for Dummies* ha
ve chickened out slightly. It's listed under its original Spanish name, Perro Liberando.
Nick, aged 51, from Norton Lees, has already written over 20 books on origami but this one is a guide for beginners.
"You never run out of ideas. It's like not running out of things to paint, you bring your own vision to it," he says.
The first things beginners make are penguins and elephants and Nick has obligingly offered a "miniphant."
He says: "It's probably because however bad you make them they are still recognisable."
Nick, who has given a namecheck to his favourite Sheffield Indian restaurants, takes beginners gently by the hand - and there are a few joke ones which will crease you.
The dog looks complicated. "That's to show people what they can achieve," says Nick.
*Published by Wiley at £12.99.
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