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Tessellation Garden - a Living Library of Origami Tessellation Designs
Tessellation Garden is a collection of all of my origami tessellation designs, arranged in a portal with sorting by tiling and sorting by twist difficulty and structural complexity.
OrigamiUSA Teaching Award 2023
When I started folding origami, I was completely unaware that people were making new designs all the time and I would have been blown away to learn that there are...
Advent of Tess: a taste of Tessellations
Many origami folders have been admiring tessellations from afar for years, intimidated by the apparent difficulty and the length of preparation needed just to get started. Others have dabbled in...
Crease Patterns
Smocking Patterns
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!