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Advent of Tess: 25 Days of Folding Fun - Again!
Advent of Tessellations is back for a third year of daily folding fun! The free tutorials will be released daily from December 1-25, 2024.
Academic Origami Publications
My introduction to the possibility of a career in origami came during the Geometric Folding Algorithms class I took in my last semester at MIT. This blog post features a list of...
Basic Twists for Origami Tessellations
The easiest way to get started folding tessellations is with grid-based tessellations using pleat intersections (like Spread Hexagons in Origami Tessellations by Eric Gjerde) and then practicing the basic twists to start...
About Gathering Folds
All products and patterns are original works by Madonna Yoder. She has been folding origami since 2005 and smocking since 2018. Madonna started making her own tessellation patterns in 2018 after taking a Geometric Folding Algorithms class during her final semester at MIT and presenting her class project at the 7th international conference on origami in science, mathematics, and education (7OSME). After making some smocked pieces for the Museum of Mathematics in NYC for their Math Unfolded exhibit, Madonna decided to go into business bringing these origami and smocking patterns to a wider audience.
For more information about Madonna, check out the About page!