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Levels of Origami Tessellation Difficulty
It’s hard to know where to start with a goal like “learn to fold origami tessellations” because there are so many different kinds of tessellations at so many different skill...
How to Start Folding Origami Tessellations
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...
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.
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!