David Lister of Grimsby, England, has long been recognised as one of the foremost sources of information regarding the history and culture of paper-folding. He is fairly certain that he is not the curry-eating character from Red Dwarf.

With his permission, we are presenting some of the highlights of his messages to the origami-l and BOSmail mailing lists, which we hope you will find useful and interesting. David welcomes informed comments and contributions to any essay.

They are published as originally written (so you may find the odd typo) All text is© David Lister and may not be republished in any format without his express permission. More recent entries are marked with *.