Petal Box
Another member of the Crown Box Family. The walls are not solid, consisting of overlapping but separate “petals” instead, hence the name.
Red
Models whose dominant colors include different shades red, scarlet, crimson, etc.
Framed Heart (refold)
Framed Heart is one of my few designs which I have folded over and over multiple times (most designs end up being folded only a single time before I move on ...
30-60-90-Degree Star (red and white)
Another 30-60-90° Star folded from triangles left over from cutting hexagons from rectangles.
Prismoid Box
After folding this box for the first time, I thought its side walls were parallelograms and thus the whole box was a prismoid with the top polygon removed. L...
Crown Box II
Another take on a crown-shaped box, with edges more jagged than in the original Crown Box.
Triangles from Red Khepera
Triangles, 16×16 grid, folded from red Khepera paper.
Star a la Fujimoto III (recursive)
A recursive variant of Star a la Fujimoto III. Of course, even more levels can be folded, but only the outer layer will have a color change.
Box with Woven Triangles XXII
Derived from Box with Woven Triangles IX by changing the layer ordering.
Star Moira (variant D)
A variant of Star Moira, in which the rays are completely hidden, so the star looks like a simple disk. The oblique view shows some more interesting structur...
Star Moira (variant C)
A Star Moira variant derived from variant B.
Star Moira (variant B)
This variant of Star Moira is stronger than variant A and looks like the blade of a buzz saw.
Star with Color Change (CFW 172)
A color-changed star designed by Shuzo Fujimoto.
Traditional Bracelet with Squares
A traditional bracelet decorated with a pattern of squares formed by color change. This model is very simple to fold, and depending on the number of iteratio...
Box with Woven Triangles XXI
Another box with a tessellation molecule from the Woven Triangles family. The triangles are visible in deep layers of the model, surrounded by a flat frame.
Box with Woven Triangles XX
In this variant of Woven Triangles, the triangles are hidden in deeper layers of the molecule and surrounded by flat rectangular panels.
Origami Deutschland Box
This box represents the logo of Origami Deutschland, the German Origami Society. I designed this model in the evening after the last day of the 2023 German c...
Star Moira (variant A)
It’s been a while since I last worked on modular stars, but I designed this one, along with a few variants, at the end of 2023. Variant A is rather fragile a...
Pureland Ladybug
Compared to Ladybug 1.1, this one has a much less refined shape, and lacks any color change. However, it is much simpler to fold, being pureland, which means...
Hemp Leaf (CFW 88)
Another simple modification of a hex twist by Shuzo Fujimoto. When used as a tessellation molecule, this design has later been rediscovered by multiple peopl...
Horned Heart
December 13th, 2023, will mark the 130th anniversary of Stanisław Szukalski’s (1893-12-13 – 1987-05-19) birth. A brilliant and controversial artist, Szukalsk...
Crown Box
The name of this simple box, folded from a hexagon, comes from its jagged edge. It is closely related to Bowl Box.
Bowl Box
A simple box folded from a hexagon. It is closely related to Crown Box.
Well III
Third design in my Well series. The layout looks the same as Well I at first glance, but the central square is placed at a deeper level than all the rectangl...
Petals (CFW 85)
This super-simple star by Shuzo Fujimoto still looks great when folded from nice paper, in this case red Kouzo-Bokashi Four Seasons washi. This is one of Fuj...
Framed Heart (variant B)
This is variant B of my Framed Heart. Just like the original, it consists of a tessellation molecule placed inside a frame folded from the same sheet of pape...
Spiked Icosahedron (WASS with color change)
A spiked icosahedron made from my Weird Asymmetric Sonobe (WASS) unit variant with color change. Since the color change’s symmetry is not aligned with the sy...
Four-Sink Base Tessellation (Larger Spacing)
This is a fold of just a simple Four-Sink Base Tessellation but with additional space of one grid unit between molecules. Folded from a sheet of red Nicolas ...
Ladybug Box
This box is decorated with a ladybug, which is a tessellation molecule. I used the same molecule for a BBU tile variant to make a decorated cube. While the f...
Box with Woven Triangles XIX
Design derived from Box with Woven Triangles XVIII by rearranging layers.
Family Portrait of Boxes with Woven Triangles I-XVI
These pictures show sixteen boxes decorated with tessellation molecules belonging to the Woven Triangles family, folded in the years 2020-2021. All boxes wer...
Well II
This is another approach to the subject I already presented in Well I, with the central square being larger and the arrangement of bricks around it having ax...
Heart, Ladybug, and Mushroom on BBU Cube
This model is just a friendly reminder that almost any tessellation can be transformed into a BBU tile, and combined with other tiles to create 3D shapes wit...
Well I
In this tessellation, rectangles are arranged in layers around a central square. I called it Well since it reminds me of a perspective view looking down a we...
Box with Woven Triangles XVIII
This model is derived from Box with Woven Triangles II by sinking one edge of the triangle which results in a striking pattern of triangular flat islands bet...
Handle (CFW 133)
This star, designed by Shuzo Fujimoto, has untypically shaped rays which make it look like the handle of an old tap. CFW 174 is a minor variant of CFW 133.
Pocket Heart
This heart I designed recently is very simple, but I haven’t noticed an identical design anywhere so far. The name on one hand comes from the fact that there...
Star a la Fujimoto III
This model belongs to a series inspired by the work of Shuzo Fujimoto. The outer edge is made with a general technique I devised that can be combined with di...
Box with Woven Triangles XVII
This design is pretty much like Box with Woven Triangles XII but with different layer ordering. The change results in the triangles being covered by pleats a...
Woven Triangles Tessellation VIII (loose spacing)
This fold of Woven Triangles Tessellation VIII uses larger spacing between the molecules than the previous one, resulting in a different looking model. Gone ...
Hedgehog Star III (with proper color change)
Since today is Polish Independence Day, I’m publishing a picture of my Hedgehog Star III folded in Polish national colors. This work uses a proper color chan...
Maple Leaf (CFW 149)
This star, designed by Shuzo Fujimoto, is based on a square twist and has eight rays. Its hexagonal twist counterpart (with twelve rays) is Chrysanthemum (CF...
Chrysanthemum Medal (CFW 176)
This star based on a hex twist and designed by Shuzo Fujimoto has double the normal number of rays. It can be fitted with an additional “ribbon” (made from a...
Box with Woven Triangles XV
This model from Woven Triangles series features a frame that surrounds the four interwoven triangles in the center of the molecule.
Framed Heart (Elephant Hide)
My Framed Heart, folded from the rare red Elephant Hide paper in late 2019. The heart can be tessellated, but I haven’t folded it this way in practice yet.
Box with Woven Triangles XIV
This variant of Woven Triangles is very similar to number XIII except for the pleat visible on the box’s side having a different layer ordering.
Box with Woven Triangles XII
This version of Woven Triangles molecule looks very similar to Woven Triangles I at first glance but has a different arrangement of pleats. These seem to ci...
Easter Egg
Decorating Easter Eggs is a popular Easter tradition in Poland, Ukraine, and other Slavic countries. This one is folded from a single sheet of paper rather t...
Ninja Star
This is a very simple and elegant traditional model: a ninja star you can actually throw quite well. With just two units it’s also one of the simplest modula...
Close-Quarters Folding (Lizard Hide Paper)
Another fold of my Close-Quarters Folding tessellation, this time from 20×20 grid which gives the central part with small squares and the margin of larger sq...
Twisted Heart Tessellation
A design from 2017, this tessellation features hearts created from slightly modified square twists.
Box with Woven Triangles XI
In this Woven Triangles variant, pleats are not locked as strongly as in others, which will probably make folding a real multi-molecule tessellation neatly h...
Star Ananke (variant E)
This variant of Star Ananke has additional little rays in the center.
Dodecagonal Kaleidocycle
This origami kaleidocycle is an example of a flexible polyhedron, and an action origami model. You can see the cycling action in this video by Ed Holmes, in ...
Box with Woven Triangles X
In this member of the Woven Triangles family, the triangles have different proportions than the √5:√5:√10 sides found in most other variants.
Box with Woven Triangles IX
This is the first box in the Woven Triangles family to be based on a structure modified by twisting the square on the back side of the molecule. This also ma...
Shifted Bricks
Despite similar looks, this tessellation is not Momotani’s Wall — it is a different pattern designed by myself. Its relation to Momotani’s Wall is roughly su...
Miura-Ori
Miura Ori is probably the best known origami corrugation. While the model is named after Koryo Miura who designed a variant which was later used for folding ...
Chain (CBU)
When I was little, it was common for kids to make paper chains as Christmas tree decoration (łańcuch na choinkę). These chains were made by cutting colored p...
Star Deimos (variant D)
In this variant of Star Deimos, units are modified so that there is no pocket in the top visible layer. This requires a change to the locking mechanism and r...
Cube (BBU E7)
Another cube from BBU-s: 6 × E7, 6 × D4 6 × A1.
Box with Woven Triangles VIII
As in Box with Woven Triangles VII, in Box with Woven Triangles VIII the triangles are located below other layers of paper and only partially peeking outside.
Box with Woven Triangles XIII
When folding this box, I thought I was making a clean fold of Box with Woven Triangles XVI, but I missed one detail and ended up with yet another design. You...
Box with Woven Triangles I
This is a simple box with a molecule of Woven Triangles Tessellation I. My first attempt at folding this model resulted in a slightly modified molecule and e...
Scala Logo II
This is my second approach to designing a Scala logo. With different colors, it could also be interpreted as Ericsson logo.
Box with Woven Triangles VII
In this variant, the triangles are located in a deeper layer of paper, as if peeking through an opening in a wall.
Ladybug 1.1
When Sara Adams prepared a videotutorial for my Ladybug, she came up with a few improvements which not only gave the model convenient reference points for fo...
Heart-Shaped Coil
This is a model I designed and folded back in 2016. It is made from the same kind of units as Single-Module Modular Heart. Any number of units can be used si...
Red and White Hare
Two Dollar Bill Hares, looking at each other.
Hydrangea
This is, along with Clover Folding, one of the oldest pictures of a tessellation folded by me (taken in June 2015).
Clover Folding
Along with the Hydrangea, this is one of the oldest picture of a tessellation folded by me (taken in June 2015).
Sawtooth Box (variant A)
This is a simple box with a color change. I designed several variants (posts coming up), most with the triangular flaps (“saw teeth”) locked onto the walls. ...
Box with Woven Triangles VI
After a break, I’m back to presenting variants of molecules from the Woven Triangles tessellation series. Again, it’s a single tessellation molecule used to ...
Spiked Icosahedron (Paper Airplane Sonobe)
Spiked Icosahedron made from my new Sonobe variant, Paper Airplane Sonobe. When you look at an individual unit before assembling the model, you can spot a re...
Scala Logo I
Logo of Scala programming language in origami. Folded from a single 2:1 rectangle of Kami.
Crowding Butterflies
This model is just a tessellation of Crossed Box Pleats: the back side which you see here is the Crowding Butterflies model by Shuzo Fujimoto. You can notice...
Heart Bracelet II and Traditional Bracelet Comparison
My Heart Bracelet II alongside the Traditional Bracelet with Squares from which it is derived.
Heart Bracelet II
I designed this simple bracelet with hearts based on a traditional bracelet that has a decoration of squares (check out a comparison of these models).
Tent-Like House
A simple house from my Building Block Units, designed for a workshop with architecture students.
Rectangle and Square Flagstone
This origami tessellation is built from the same kind of molecule as Pythagorean Tiling but molecules are arranged differently: in any pair of adjacent neigh...
Pythagorean Tiling
The pattern this origami tessellation represents is known as Pythagorean Tiling or Two Squares Tessellation. I came up with this design independently, but it...
Box with Woven Triangles V
Another member of the Woven Triangles family, single tessellation molecule on a box.
Box with Woven Triangles IV
This origami box is decorated with a tessellation molecule from the Woven Triangle family. In contrast to Woven Triangles I, II, and III, Woven Triangles IV ...
Box with Woven Triangles III
This is the third tessellation pattern in Woven Triangle family, and it looks good as a single molecule on a box as well.
Box with Woven Triangles II
Another box with a tessellation molecule from the Woven Triangle family.
Box with Woven Triangles XVI
Naming this box, the first in the Woven Triangles family, was a little misunderstanding. I originally labeled it number I since it was the first to be publis...
Box with Arrangement of Rectangles
Recently, I came up with a family of patterns which result from placing four modified twists around the corners of a rectangle or square. Some variations are...
Star Chaos (variant B)
Variant B of my Star Chaos. Modular origami model from 6 units. Duo paper courtesy of a friend.
Torch
This origami torch is basically the same model as Ice Cream, just with different colors and shaping.
Two-in-One Flower Tessellation
A recent fold of my Two-in-One Flower Tessellation. Even though there is only one kind of molecule in this model, depending on which point you treat as the f...
Doom
Doom Eternal is coming out tomorrow, so here’s an origami version of the cover art of the first Doom game from 1993. Origami from a single square sheet, no c...
Box with Color-Change Star (Hexagonal)
The technique used for this hexagonal box can be used for other polygons as well, resulting in boxes with a different number of sides. However, the minimum n...
Cottage 1.1
This is an improved version of my origami Cottage, made from Building Block Units.
Two Hearts
In contrast to Two Hearts Framed, this model is very simple to fold. The paper used was a 4:1 rectangle of Biotope.
Two Hearts Framed
I designed this model as a wedding gift, starting out from my Framed Heart model.
Heart Tessellation II
This model uses an improved version of my Broken Heart Molecule. I call this version simply Heart Tessellation II / Molecule (II because of a Heart Tessellat...
Framed Heart
This model uses an improved version of my Broken Heart Molecule. I call this version simply Heart Tessellation II / Molecule.
Tea Tag Heart
Here is the first model in my tea tag origami series, a Tea Tag Heart.
Superpuss
Oriol Esteve taught this fun model of his during one of Origami Connect classes.
John Lackland Tessellation
I derived this model from Her Majesty’s Tessellation by removing most of the free spaces (“land”) between molecules. Each molecule is still 6×6 grid units. F...
Flagstone Paneling of Cross Pattee Tessellation
This origami tessellation, hand-folded from a single sheet of Biotope paper, without any cutting or glue, demonstrates my new approach to cleanly separating ...
Ladybug
I haven’t had time to prepare any current-year-related model this year, so here’s an older model of a completely different kind: a simple ladybug with color ...
Origami Free-Form Box: Poland
Today, on November 11th, Poland is celebrating 100 years of regaining independence. This origami box which represents an outline of Poland is an example of t...
Heart Bracelet
A bracelet with heart motif, folded from a single strip of red-gold duo color Washi paper.
Twirl Bowl
This hexagonal dish is created as an intermediate step while collapsing my Sunk Star Box.
Sunk Star Boxes (two enantiomers)
Two folds of my Sunk Star Box with different twisting directions, side by side. Wherever there’s a twist in origami, we get two possible versions of the fold...
Sunk Star Box (Hexagonal)
The star in the center of this box is a kind of twist which does not lie flat and therefore can form a box but not a tessellation. This model is a part of a ...
Box with Leaves (tip-to-tip) cleaner fold
A new, cleaner fold of my Box with Leaves (tip-to-tip). I taught this model at Outdoor Origami Meeting in Kraków, Poland, this year.
Elephants in Love
I designed this model, based on my Simple Elephant, for the wedding of two origami friends, Marcin and Natalia. Folded from a single 5:1 strip of red-gold Wa...
Her Majesty’s Tessellation (64×64)
This is Her Majesty’s Tessellation (own design) folded from a 64×64 diagonally rotated grid. The spacing between molecules is less dense than in the 32×32 gr...
Depressed Propeller Box
A new box design based on Propellers Tessellation molecule. The molecule is depressed, meaning that the layers of paper forming the sides of the box are abov...
Clover Folding (Fujimoto) and Lookalike (Kosmulski) side by side
A side-by-side comparison of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Clover Folding (left) and my own Clover Folding Lookalike (right). Front and back sides are shown (top and bott...
Clover Folding Lookalike
This is my design which at first glance looks very similar to Shuzo Fujimoto’s Clover Folding but has a completely different crease pattern and design.
Clover Folding (22×22 grid)
I hadn’t folded Shuzo Fujimoto’s Clover Folding for at least two years when I decided to fold one again after seeing some examples beautifully folded by John...
Chevron Corrugation (UD-UU-DU-DD)
Yet another variant of my Chevron Corrugation.
Fragile Heart Tessellation
This is a tessellation which represents a heart. The heart can be shaped to become a broken heart, which allows the model to be treated as action origami. Th...
Blazing Propellers Tessellation
A modification of my earlier Propellers Tessellation. The blazing propeller also resembles a whirlpool or a tropical cyclone. 14×14 grid per molecule, 48×48 ...
Broken Heart Box
A box with a heart, which is also an action origami model. When things go wrong, the heart can be reshaped into a broken heart. The heart itself can be tesse...
Hydrangea Heart
My modification of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea into a heart shape. I found on flickr a similar model, designed by Francis Ow.
Lelum Cube
A modified version of Lelum Polelum Cube where one out of each pair of flaps is hidden.
Box with Leaves (tip-to-tip)
A box with leaves based on this coaster. There is a color change between the walls and the leaves, though a variant using the same side of paper for both is ...
Flower Tessellation
Flower Tessellation, designed by Meenakshi Mukerji. The molecule is derived from the Crossed Box Pleat (CBP). I folded and photographed this model for Meenak...
Framed Two-in-One Flower (Variant 0)
A single framed molecule of my Two-in-One Flower Tessellation. This is the most basic variant both of the flower and of the frame.
Brick and Mortar
I designed this tessellation as a variant of Momotani’s Wall with some extra spacing between the bricks added (hence the name Brick and Mortar Tessellation).
Two-in-One Flower Tessellation
There is only one kind of molecule in this origami tessellation, but depending on how you look, you can see two different kinds of flowers here, hence the na...
Box with Two-in-One Flower Tessellation
Box with a single molecule of my Two-in-One Flower Tessellation. This pattern is derived from four molecules of Double Spearhead Tessellation slightly modifi...
Parrot Tulip Opening
A small tessellated version of Meenakshi Mukerji’s Tulip, originally designed as a modular origami unit. Tant paper with acrylic paint.
Nuclear Flower Box
This origami box is decorated with a single molecule of Nuclear Flower Tessellation, a variant of Two-in-One Flower Tessellation. The name stems from the fac...
Dachshund
The Dachshund (Perro Salchicha) is a very cute dog model I immediately liked when I first saw it. I also designed a doghouse in matching style.
Dachshund (from Washi paper)
The dog is standing in front of a doghouse I designed specially to match this model.
Heart (CLU)
Origami heart made from a single Cross Lap Unit (CLU), using a similar technique as my Ichthys. Metallic paper with acrylic paint.
Single-Module Modular Heart
This heart is made from a single module which is a modification of 90-degree unit (independently discovered by me and others), so it’s like a modular design ...
Twisted Bird Base Tessellation (with molecule examples)
I recently came up with the idea of the Twisted Bird Base Tessellation. As the name implies, it is based around the bird base which is folded with some extra...
Long Story Short
This is my design for an origami book. It’s called “long story short” because you can make the book as long as you wish (any number of pages) and at the same...
Cube from Recursive Four-Sink Base
This cube is made from six units, each of which is a recursive four-sink base modified for use as a module.
Here, Kitty
Cat designed by Jose Anibal Voyer. Copy paper painted with acryl.
Fenced Tiling of Clover Folding
I designed this tiling of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Clover Folding after I saw the tiling by Peter Budai and thought it would be better to make the borders between mo...
Adjustable Cube
This cube is a mechanical toy. Its size can be adjusted: the cube can grow or shrink by a factor of about two. It starts out as a cube with a pattern resembl...
Name Plate (stacking variant)
Name Plate variant which has one of the pyramids pointing outside and the other inside. This allows several elements to be stacked on top of each other, like...
Möbius Strip III (BBU)
A single-sided surface, the Möbius Band is one of the more interesting mathematical objects that can be reproduced in origami.
2×2×1 box
This is a practical box made from Building Block Units connected using the hook method. I use this box to store all my Crease Pattern drawings of BBU variant...
Cottage
A very simple building without many details. I later improved the design while preserving its simplicity (see Cottage 1.1).
Truncated Octahedron (Open Frame Unit)
Made from Tomoko Fuse’s Open Frame I (bow-tie motif) unit, polyhedron design by me.
Poinsettia Ball
Model is placed near a real Poinsettia flower for comparison.