Knit Purl is collecting felted origami cranes for the Knitnotwar 1,0o0 art installation for peace. The knitnotwar 1,0o0 project involves more than a hundred artists knitting 1,000 cranes for a ...

London studios Anomaly and Unit9 are collating patterns donated by artists, which users can print out with instructions to make origami cranes in exchange for a donation to disaster relief in Japan.

Last year, she began her most ambitious project yet, called “A Million Cranes.” It does involve a wish, and also has a million cranes. Tarses, who just turned 83, decided that “since the world is in ...