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Crease Patterns

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Winter 2025 Crease Pattern Bundle

Winter 2025 Crease Pattern Bundle

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Tessellation Academy: Volume 1 Ebook

Tessellation Academy: Volume 1 Ebook

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Fall 2024 Crease Pattern Bundle

Fall 2024 Crease Pattern Bundle

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Advent of Tess 2024 Crease Pattern Ebook

Advent of Tess 2024 Crease Pattern Ebook

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Summer 2024 Crease Pattern Bundle

Summer 2024 Crease Pattern Bundle

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Spring 2024 Crease Pattern Bundle

Spring 2024 Crease Pattern Bundle

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Summer of Twists Ebook

Summer of Twists Ebook

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Winter 2023 Crease Pattern Bundle

Winter 2023 Crease Pattern Bundle

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Smocking Patterns

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Puffy Triangles Physical Smocking Templates

Puffy Triangles Physical Smocking Templates

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Open Hex Closed Tri Weave Physical Smocking Templates

Open Hex Closed Tri Weave Physical Smocking Templates

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Half-Adjacent Triangles Physical Smocking Templates

Half-Adjacent Triangles Physical Smocking Templates

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Herringbone Weave Physical Smocking Templates

Herringbone Weave Physical Smocking Templates

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Articles and Tutorials

How to Start Folding Origami Tessellations

How to Start Folding Origami Tessellations

February 25, 2025

Origami tessellations are (infinitely) repeating patterns, folded from a single sheet of paper. The very foundations of origami tessellations are grids, pleats, pleat intersections, and simple twists, and you can...

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Advent of Tess: 25 Days of Folding Fun - Again!

Advent of Tess: 25 Days of Folding Fun - Again!

November 5, 2024

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.

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Academic Origami Publications

Academic Origami Publications

July 9, 2024

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...

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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!

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