Articles and Tutorials — tiling

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 levels.

While there’s no limit to the number of possible tessellation designs, the number that are beginner-friendly is relatively small, and they’re not the ones that you’ll see modern tessellation designers posting.

Origami tessellations are infinitely repeating patterns folded from a single sheet of paper.

My designs are in the twist-based style and I fold my patterns one twist at a time whenever possible.