Tessellated Thorn (CFW 86)
You can fold this tessellation based on instructions for an individual star. The way of connecting molecules and the precreas...
Folding instructions on this page
Folding instructions you can find directly on this site.
Tessellated Petals (CFW 85)
You can fold this tessellation based on instructions for an individual star. As in 3.6.3.6 Tessellation, you have to add tria...
Woven Square Tessellation
In order to fold this model, pelase refer to the instructions for Woven Square Box. You can also follow the instructions for ...
Traditional Bracelet with Squares
In print I learned this model from the book Sztuka origami by Renzo Zanoni (published 1992, ISBN 83-85330-17-8), page 28. Thi...
Iso-Area Stars (CFW 291)
Images of finished model in back-light (without any actual instructions apart from the possib...
Pentagonal Box (CFW 219)
Instructions for this model can be found in Fujimoto’s book, Twist Origami III, on page 45. I...
Windmill (CFW 84)
In Print Instructions for this model were published in Shuzo Fujimotos’s books: Twist Orig...
Tessellation (CFW 335)
There are no printed instructions for this model that I’m aware of, but the structure is quite simple: the tessellation consi...
Iso-Area Triangle Twists (CFW 68)
Crease Pattern The Crease Pattern and pictures of finished model can be found in Shuzo Fujimo...
Seal of a Secret Society Tessellation
To fold this tessellation, refer to instructions for folding a star with a single molecule. Y...
Seal of a Secret Society
The phototutorial below starts from a hexagon with an 8×8×8 grid. Folded this way, the model has several unnecessary creases ...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 104)
Hints This model is the same as a level-2 Lucky Star Fractal except it is folded starting fro...
Iso-Area Square Twists (CFW 66)
Crease Pattern The Crease Pattern for this model can be found in Shuzo Fujimoto’s books: Invitation to Creative Playing wi...
Star Tessellation (CFW 59)
Books Images of the finished model, shown in back-light, appeared in Fujimoto’s books (withou...
Framed Heart / Heart Tessellation II
Crease Pattern Crease Patttern (CP) and Precrease Pattern (PreCP) can be found in my presenta...
Hydrangea Basic Form A variant 1
In print Instructions for this variant can be found in: Hydrangea folding (あじさい折りおりがみ) by Shuzo Fujimoto (posth.), ISBN 97...
Cornflower
In print A CP and phototutorial for this design were published in Convention Book of 32nd International Convention of Origami...
Tryzub (Coat of Arms of Ukraine)
The phototutorial below shows how to fold the model. Most folds do not have exact reference folds, and you have to guess wher...
Whirlwind Tessellation
Whirlwind Tessellation A box decorated with a molecule of Whirlwind Tessell...
Stacked Whirlwind Molecule / Tessellation
This design is a fractal extension of the regular Whirlwind Tessellation, which uses an 8×8 grid. The fractal molecule is fol...
Star Ananke (variant E)
Phototutorial 1. Pinch center of bottom edge and pivot upper-right corner around upper-left corner till it meets the p...
Blazing Propellers Tessellation
Tessellation of molecules from 14×14 grid each Molecule from 30×30 grid ...
Hydrangea Tessellation
You can fold this tessellation based on instructions for folding a single molecule. There is also a video tutorial by Sara Ad...
Shifted Bricks
Instructions There are two main ways of folding this model. When folding from a grid, one can...
Weird Asymmetric Sonobe (WASS)
This unit behaves like the So...
Parallelograms
For this model, only a picture of a hand-drawn crude CP which...
Box with Woven Triangles I
Below you can find a precrease pattern and a photo tutorial of the collapse (for a clean fold). The model is designed around ...
Rocket
This model is very simple to fold. The rocket can stand on its own thanks to the “foot”. You can also say this horizontal ele...
Star Ananke
Star Ananke has many variants, most of them just minor changes in the folding process but affecting the look of the final model.
Lucky Star Fractal
Below you can find instructio...
Fog Stoppers for Face Mask
These origami fog stoppers can help reduce the fogging of your glasses in winter or during physical exercise. They do help, b...
Box with Woven Triangles VII
Below you can find a precrease pattern and pictures of the collapse. This sequence shows the clean precrease which you get wi...
Hedgehog
In print Folding diagrams for this model were published in: OrigamiUSA Model Collection 2020, page 100 Der Falter 74, pa...
Clematis Tessellation
This is a relatively simple tessellation which should be suitable even for beginners. Despite the simplicity, with a bit of shaping, it can look quite nice.
Woven Triangles Tessellation I
Crease patterns are available as a single PNG image. Apart from the CP of a single molecule, it also shows the two main layouts: the symmetric one with two m...
Lucky Star Fractal Tessellation
In order to fold this model, you can follow instructions for the single molecule. You can use...
Predictable Box
Instructions are available as a single PNG image. The box, as shown here, uses an 8×8 grid, but it can be folded with any pro...
Lucky Star Tessellation
In order to fold this model, you can follow, with minor modification, instructions for the fr...
Crane with Colored Wings
The model is quite easy to fold: Fold the square’s diagonals, then fold all corners to the center (blintz the square). Y...
Hydrangea Icosahedron
For folding Hydrangea Icosahedron (and many other shapes as well), you can just follow the instructions for Hydrangeaa Cube, ...
Hydrangea Cube
The idea of connecting several Hydrangeas occurred independently to me and earlier to Meenakshi Mukerji. If you do not yet kn...
Shark Teeth Corrugation
The second image shows the three steps used for constructing the pre-crease pattern for my Sh...
Clover Folding Lookalike
Clover Folding Lookalike looks very similar to Fujimoto’s Clover Folding but has a significantly different structure.
Single-Sheet Picture Frame
Instructions are available as a single PNG image: PNG
DNA Replication
Instructions for Thoki Yenn’s original DNA model can be found in his Orikata book. I think there are also some tutorials on Y...
Stars and Squares Tessellation
In print Pictures of this design can be found in Shuzo Fujimoto’s Invitation to Creative Playing with Origami (創造する折り紙遊びへの招待)...
Celtic Cross Tessellation
You can fold this design based on instructions for the Celtic Cross model. Use that model’s CP and just extract the top part ...
Chevron Corrugation
My instructions Instructions are available as a single PNG image: PNG
Square Interlace Tessellation
This tessellation is closely related to my Propellers Tessellation and you get the latter as ...
Twisted Bird Base Tessellation
As the name implies, in the center of the molecule is a Bird ...
Cluster Tessellation
You can find the CP and basic folding instructions in the files linked below. Several variants of this tessellation are possi...
Modular Picture Frame
Instructions are available as a single PNG image: PNG
Square Pixel Tessellation
This tessellation can be used for creating pixel images representing arbitrary pictures.
Möbius Strip IV (CLU)
To fold this model, use a strip with about 1:15 proportions and fold notches according to CLU instructions. Make two notches ...
Sprout Tessellation
You can find the CP and basic folding instructions in the files linked below.
Squares and Crosses Tessellation
This tessellation is closely related to Ninja Star Tessellation and you get the latter as one of the intermediate steps when ...
Ichthys (CLU)
Below you can find a CP with folding tips. The CP is quite simple, so even if you have little experience, you should be able ...
Heart (CLU)
Below you can find a CP with folding tips. The CP is quite simple, so even if you have little experience, you should be able ...
Cross Lap Unit (CLU)
Below, you can find the Creas...
Epiphany II
Folding this model is about as simple as it gets: Start with a square or rectangular piece of paper. Pleat into 32-nds (if...
Makalu
Introduction and folding instructions online and in print Robert J. Lang’s Makalu (Six Intersecting Pentagons) is an interest...
Super-Pineapple Tessellation (Extreme Double Pineapple Tessellation)
Super-Pineapple Tessellation is my extended (and much more complex) variant of Ilan Garibi’s Pineapple Tessellation.
Four-Sink-Base Tessellation and arbitrary pixel images
This is a molecule I came up with independently with many other designers. By itself, it is not very interesting, but it make...
Pinwheel with Color Change (hexagonal and other starting polygons)
Hexagonal version Octagonal version This is a simple model which can ...
Woven Slit Module (WSM)
Woven Slit Module is an origami unit which can be used to build different kinds of modular assemblies, from simple cubes to more complex objects. They can we...
Name Plate
You can use this model to print your name on it (templates available below) and put it on your desk or for adding descriptions to your models at an origami c...
Bumpy Octahedron
Front side Bumpy Octahedron is folded from a single sheet of 2:1 paper. Each face is decorated with a sunken tria...
Outdoor Origami Meeting Module (OOMM)
This unit can be used to make spiked versions of polyhedra with triangular faces as well as polyhedra with square faces where each face is extended with a ”b...
Gasherbrum
Introduction and folding instructions on author’s page Gasherbrum (Four Interesecting Triangles) is one of the models in Hima...
Annapurna
Introduction and folding instructions on author’s page Annapurna (Ten Interesecting Triangles) is one of the models in Himala...
Building Block Units (BBU)
Building Block Units are a family of modules which make it possible to build a huge variety of designs, from typical abstract geometric solids to realistic m...
Sturdy Edge Module (StEM)
StEM is a very versatile module which can be used to make a number of very different objects. Three units can build a triangular 45-degree pyramid, so anythi...
Simple Edge Unit (SEU)
SEU, the Simple Edge Unit is an edge unit with a 90° angle at the tip. It can be folded from paper of any proportions and it is quite versatile since with mi...
Pyramid Vertex Module (PVM)
PVM is a family of units which can be combined into shapes of quite different structure. The family consists of vertex units which resemble triangular pyrami...
Swallowtail Module (Dog Bone Unit)
This is a business card unit which I designed independently with Jennifer Campbell who used the name Dog Bone Unit (details in model description).
Moreno’s Unit
Jose Arley Moreno’s diagrams Jose Arley Moreno published instructions for this unit on his web page.
Trapezoid Edge Module (TEM)
These are folding instructions for the Trapezoid Edge Module (TEM) module. This module bears some resemblance to Thomas Hull’s PHiZZ unit while the folding p...
Business Card Cube Module
You can find folding instructions for this module on Ned Batchelder’s page.
FIT (Five Intersecting Tetrahedra)
Tom Hull’s folding instructions Five Intersecting Tetrahedra (FIT), designed by Thomas Hull, is probably the most popular mod...
Oxi Module
Since I’m too lazy to draw nice diagrams, I just made photographs of the module at different stages of folding. The module is quite simple, so I hope such pi...
Francis Ow’s 120-degree unit
Instructions are available on author’s website.
PHiZZ unit
Folding instructions Instructions for folding the PHiZZ unit and buckyball models made with this unit can be found on the author’s web page.
Penultimate Unit family
Online and in print