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 ...
Abstract tessellations
Abstract tessellations are the most popular type.
They can be contrasted with figurative tessellations.
This page lists models of a single type. You might be interested in folding instructions instead.
Doubt
This design was inspired by ceramic tiles I saw at a store. I found their shape, consisting of a square with a smaller square cut away, interesting. It remin...
Qulu Box
This box is the second design in the Zulu family. Instead of just triangles, the center of the molecule contains a square surrounded by trapezoids. The molec...
Radiant Tessellation
A pattern of hexagons, rectangles, and triangles, folded from a hex grid. In order to make the model more interesting, I skipped some molecules, which result...
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.
Quartered Box
A very simple box whose lid is divided into four identical squares. It is basically the back side of a single molecule of Four-Sink Base Tessellation plus wa...
Lucky Star Fractal from Green Tant
Lucky Star Fractal, level 3, folded from dark green Tant paper. This model is so nice I’ve folded it probably dozens of times (which rarely happens) and each...
Four-Sink Base Tessellation (Diagonal)
I folded this tessellation for a collaboration with the late Meenakshi Mukerji. I would fold some simple tessellation bases on which her designs were based a...
Negative Space Stars
A simple tessellation on a square grid. Stars appear in the negative space as “holes” in the upper layer of paper while the pattern of the upper layer consis...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 422 applied to CFW 84)
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto demonstrates a general technique which I labeled CFW 422. Here, it is combined with the simplest of Fujimoto’s basic stars, Windm...
Woven Triangles Tessellation IX
A full tessellation of the pattern found on Box with Woven Triangles IX, folded from Vintage Paper.
Hex Twist Star (CFW 114)
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto is only mentioned in textual form: there isn’t even a picture in Fujimoto’s books. It consists of the molecule of Hemp Leaf (CFW ...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 123)
This star is like Petals (CFW 85) but with more paper around the tessellation molecule.
Box with Woven Triangles XXII
Derived from Box with Woven Triangles IX by changing the layer ordering.
Sidewalk
I called this tessellation sidewalk because this flagstone pattern is often used on sidewalks where I live. The design is basically Momotani’s Wall, stretche...
Lux Aeterna
This model is dedicated to the memory of Artur Biernacki, a Polish origami designer who died unexpectedly exactly a year ago, on June 8th, 2023. May light et...
Quicksands Box
The tessellation molecule that decorates this box spent several years in my drawer before I finally made a clean fold, since I designed it shortly after Dune...
Fractalized CFW 85 (consistent fold direction)
I developed Shuzo Fujimoto’s design, Petals (CFW 85) into a fractal. I don’t have direct proof if Fujimoto was aware of this possibility, but I think it’s li...
Fractalized CFW 85 (alternating fold direction)
I developed Shuzo Fujimoto’s design, Petals (CFW 85) into a fractal. I don’t have direct proof if Fujimoto was aware of this possibility, but I think it’s li...
Tessellated Petals (CFW 85)
Many of Shuzo Fujimoto’s stars are built around tessellation molecules, and thus can, with a simple transformation, be tessellated. For some cases I was able...
Hydrangea Plaque (CFW 49)
Another variant of the Hydrangea by Shuzo Fujimoto, this one using a color change around the edges.
Zulu Box
This box is decorated with a tessellation molecule that I called “Zulu” since the square with two diagonals resembles the maritime “Z” (Zulu) flag. Several p...
Box with Braided Pinwheel Tessellation (variant C) molecule
This is a simple box decorated with a molecule of Braided Pinwheel Tessellation variant C. It was one of my experiments with folding window blind fabric and ...
Woven Square Tessellation
It took me about five years after folding the Woven Square Box to fold a tessellation with multiple molecules used on the box. This model differs from Square...
Star a la Fujimoto II
Another model using my Color-Wrap Rays technique together with Shuzo Fujimoto’s Scissors (CFW 87) molecule.
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.
Iso-Area Stars (CFW 291)
This translucent design by Shuzo Fujimoto would be called an iso-area tessellation in modern parlance since both sides sport the same pattern (except for bei...
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.
David (דוד)
I designed and folded this model in mid-2023. Originally, I planned it as a typical figurative illustration of the story of David and Goliath, often found in...
Propellers (CFW 54)
Propellers Tessellation was one of my first successful designs. Interestingly, I came up with it later than with Square Interlace Tessellation even though Pr...
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...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 92)
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto is one of his simple hex twist modifications that are also used as building blocks of his more complex designs. I find this one v...
Barnacles
The name of this corrugation comes from the sessile sea organisms it resembles.
Square Interlace Tessellation with Curled Corners
You can make your tessellations more interesting by warping them into various shapes using wet folding. This Square Interlace Tessellation with curled corner...
Handle with Scissors (CFW 136)
Another star by Shuzo Fujimoto which is not even depicted in his books, just mentioned in text. It uses rays from Handle (CFW 133), but the tessellation mole...
Windmill (CFW 84)
This is probably the simplest among Shuzo Fujimoto’s stars derived from decorated hex twists. Fujimoto usually listed it as the first decorated variant, righ...
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...
Box with Framed Pyramid
This design is derived from Box with Alien Pyramid by rearranging paper layers. While the latter molecule tends to rise up from the plane and become 3D, this...
Box with Alien Pyramid
The decoration on this box consists of just a few modified open-back square twists. It resembles a flat-topped pyramid such as found in Mesoamerican architec...
Holly (variant D)
This variant of Holly changes the appearance of the pleats in the background of the molecule. Rotating the model 45° makes it look more like a decorated cros...
Handle with Thorn (CFW 135)
This star uses the same rays as Handle (CFW 133), but the tessellation molecule in the center is that of Thorn (CFW 86).
Translucent Design (CFW 58) from Pergamenata Paper
The first time I folded this tessellation, I used non-transparent paper, which made it look great in reflected light, but allowed little in terms of viewing ...
Star with Unicursal Hexagram
This star is decorated with a molecule of my Unicursal Hexagram Tessellation. The color-change rays are the same as in Star a la Fujimoto.
7-Box
The digit “7” on this box’s lid is a tessellation molecule, derived from the one on Z-Box. Hiding one of the horizontal bars sounded like a simple enough exe...
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...
Square Spaceness
I folded this classic design by Alessandra Lamio during a workshop with her at the 2018 Outdoor Origami Meeting. Now it hangs on my wall, framed. The molecul...
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...
Handle with Hemp Leaf (CFW 137)
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto uses the same rays as his Handle (CFW 133) but the tessellation molecule is that of Hemp Leaf (CFW 88), same as independently cre...
Triangles Flagstone
This design is a modification of Triangles so that the tessellation becomes flagstone. At first glance, this change is more visible on the back side than on ...
Skeleton (4) (CFW 234)
This is one of Shuzo Fujimoto’s designs that include the word skeleton in their names. They are corrugations, aligned into 3D structures that look like inter...
Unicursal Hexagram Tessellation
The molecule of this tessellation is made from a modified hex twist and represents a unicursal hexagram which is an interesting geometric shape that has also...
Scissors (CFW 87) from Woodstock Paper
A better fold of Shuzo Fujimoto’s star Scissors (CFW 87), from a larger sheet. Front and back have the same outline, but the number and arrangement of paper ...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 106)
This star consists of a CFW 91 molecule folded in the center of a hexagon with 6×6×6 grid, giving it additional rays around the molecule. This work is folded...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 106) from patterned Washi
This was my first clean fold of Shuzo Fujimoto’s CFW 106 star, from a sheet of printed Washi I received courtesy of Satoko Saito for the Year of the Ox. Unfo...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 106) comparison of patterned Washi and Tant folds
A comparison of two folds of CFW 106 side by side: one from patterned Washi and the other from plain color Tant. Patterned paper, though very nice, made it i...
Fractalized CFW 91
I found out that Shuzo Fujimoto’s molecule used in his CFW 91 star, can be changed into a fractal. By pulling some paper outside in the center, you can get a...
Tessellation (CFW 335)
This tessellation (translucent design), designed by Shuzo Fujimoto, is not listed in any of his books or magazines (as far as I know). I discovered it among ...
Kites
I designed this model during a stop while trekking in the Sudetes mountain range in the summer of 2022, as you can see in the picture of the prototype. A few...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 93)
One of Shuzo Fujimoto’s basic stars which consists of just a single tessellation molecule without any additional paper around it. As with some other models i...
Star a la Fujimoto III (orange art nouveau paper)
Star a la Fujimoto III is a great way to showcase patterned papers, in this case an art nouveau themed gift wrapping paper.
Thorn (CFW 86)
One of Shuzo Fujimoto’s basic stars that consist just of a tessellation molecule with no extra paper around it, and can become more complex stars when decora...
Clustered Bricks
This design is a variant of Shifted Bricks. Every other brick in each row is of different length. Since the rows are shifted relative to each other, if you l...
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 ...
Iso-Area Triangle Twists (CFW 68)
This “translucent design” by Shuzo Fujimoto is an example of iso-area tessellations: both sides have the same pattern (except for rotation). The point below ...
Body and Soul
This tessellation consists of alternating layers of two types of elements that differ significantly in their appearance and complexity. The folding sequence ...
Woven Triangles Tessellation XVIII
Derived from Woven Triangles Tessellation II, this pattern has a number of creases converge at the center of the molecule. Sharp outlines of 90° triangles in...
Back-Twisted Square Twists (CFW 293)
This is a tessellation many origamists discover independently, though Fujimoto was probably among the first to do so. This tessellation is not featured as a ...
Electric Tessellation
This tessellation is just slightly modified back-twisted square twists, but it looks quite nice anyway, especially in backlight.
Box with Woven Triangles XIX
Design derived from Box with Woven Triangles XVIII by rearranging layers.
Star a la Fujimoto III (striped paper)
Star a la Fujimoto III looks particularly interesting when folded from paper whose pattern has hexagonal symmetry.
Star a la Fujimoto III (variant B)
In this variant, the rays are layered “one on top of the other” rather than “every other one in a different layer”. This changes the appearance of the front ...
Square Interlace Tessellation (undulated)
Who says tessellations have to be flat? Even tessellations with flat molecules can be warped and twisted into various interesting shapes, and one technique t...
Box with Woven Triangles XVIII (white flax paper)
I folded this box in order to test John Gerard’s pure flax white paper. You can read more in my review of this paper.
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...
Woven Triangles Tessellation VI (3D shaping)
A model from September 2020, this is a 3D-shaped variant of Woven Triangles Tessellation VI, folded from the same sheet as the flat-shaped one. Pulling some ...
Improvisation in White
This is just a very simple tessellation on a hex grid. My first fold was indeed an improvisation, folded from a plain white sheet. This one is a refold in wh...
Tessellation Triste
This tessellation is based on a hex grid but the symmetry of molecules is triangular. This is also the reason the whole model is not a fully symmetric hexago...
Double Star
The inspiration for this design came to me from viewing the back side of Star a la Fujimoto III. Later, I found out that Andrey Hechuev earlier designed a te...
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.
Box with Greek Cross and Squares IV
The tessellation molecule decorating this box is one of many similar patterns I designed after my visit to CfC conference in Zaragoza in February 2020. While...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 110)
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto combines a central molecule taken from CFW 56 Tessellation (or Windmill, CFW 84) with sharpened rays which mimic a very similar p...
Origami in Shades of Gray
This is a collections of my origami tessellations that I framed and hung near the desk I use for folding. The models, all kept in neutral colors, are as foll...
Scissors Tessellation
This is my tessellation of Shuzo Fujimoto’s CFW 87 Scissors. Each molecule can be rotated independently of others. As far I’m aware, Fujimoto himself never t...
Epiphany V
This year’s model of the Star of Bethlehem for Epiphany is based on my Star of David I molecule. The model as a whole is very similar to Epiphany III, the di...
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...
Scissors Fractal
This is a recursive version of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Scissors (CFW 87). I wanted to call it Biohazard Fractal since it resembles the biohazard symbol, but later d...
Scissors Fractal (alternating rotation)
This is another fold of Scissors Fractal, a recursive model I derived from Shuzo Fujimoto’s Scissors (CFW 87). In this fold, the direction each level rotates...
Comparison of Scissors Fractal Variants — alternating and consistent rotation direction
A comparison of two variants of Scissors Fractal: one with consistent rotation direction for all levels and one with alternating rotation directions.
Holly
This Rosette variant looks like holly leaves.
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...
Chipped Box
Top edges of this box look as if they were chipped, hence the name. The whole top area is a tessellation molecule, derived by a simple change from the base t...
Box with Fat Propeller
This box is decorated with a single molecule of Fat Propellers Tessellation. I designed the molecule and folded a box decorated with it no later than 2017, a...
Translucent Design (CFW 55)
This tessellation, designed by Shuzo Fujimoto, is almost identical to my John Lackland Tessellation except for using petal folds instead of simple valley fol...
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 ...
Seal of a Secret Society Tessellation
I was inspired to design the molecule of this tessellation after spending a lot of time analyzing various designs of Shuzo Fujimoto’s stars. Since pleats in ...
Seal of a Secret Society (Maya paper)
I folded this Seal of a Secret Society from Clairefointaine Maya paper for the sake of creating a phototutorial on this model.
Hex Twist Star (CFW 91)
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto has a decoration made from six radially aligned petal folds in the center. After minor modification, it can be tessellated (I’m n...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 103)
This star by Fujimoto is basically the same thing as CFW 87 but folded from a 6×6×6 grid, which results in more paper around the central molecule and a diffe...
Stars and Squares (CFW 53) big
After I designed this tessellation, I learned that Shuzo Fujimoto had designed the same thing about 40 years earlier. This was the first time such independen...
Translucent Design (CFW 58)
This is one of Fujimoto’s translucent designs, a name he used for many of his tessellations. Folded from rare blue Elephant Hide paper, this work is not very...
Woven Triangles Tessellation VIII
In this model, the four triangles located around the center of the molecule are located below other layers of paper, only partially peeking outside. Triangle...
Pythagorean Tiling with 3:2 Ratio (32×32 grid)
While my first fold of this variant was from a 16×16 grid, this one is from 32×32, which produces many more molecules and better shows how squares of two siz...
Seal of a Secret Society
I came up with this design due to folding lots of stars by Shuzo Fujimoto recently. Since this is not the first time new ideas pop up based on his works (thi...
Stars and Triangles (CFW 56)
This is one of Shuzo Fujimoto’s translucent designs. For my personal use, I call it Stars and Triangles as an analogy to Stars and Squares which is the same ...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 122)
A star by Shuzo Fujimoto. The front looks as if woven from mutually intersecting triangles while the back is rather plain. A very similar model, CFW 120 loo...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 104)
This star by Fujimoto is broadly speaking a level-2 Lucky Star Fractal folded from a slightly smaller hexagon so that there is less paper available on the ba...
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.
Iso-Area Square Twists (CFW 66)
This design by Shuzo Fujimoto is an early example of an iso-area tessellation, i.e. one which looks the same on both sides, apart from possibly rotations and...
Flasher
At one point I thought I’d design an origami flasher. Unsurprisingly, since I went for the simplest possible idea, I ended up with a design which had been in...
Hypar Flasher
This origami flasher snaps into a hyperbolic paraboloid when unfurled. The center is based on a set of twists similar to those used in the Pythagorean Tiling...
Screw Propeller
This Rosette variant resembles a screw propeller like those found on ships.
Walk of Fame
This tessellation is closely related to the 1:1 Pythagorean Tiling, but the twists are slightly different. Still, the design remains iso-area. The squares an...
3.6.3.6 Tessellation (CFW 61)
One of the classic tessellations from a hex grid, first published by Shuzo Fujimoto. It uses molecules of two types, hex and triangle twists, and understandi...
Windmill from Square (CFW 81)
One of the simplest among Fujimoto’s stars. This design is folded from a square, but only a hexagonal part of it is used (this technique is CFW 414). CFW 84 ...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 105)
This star would have been simple to fold were it not for the final folds that create the small hexagon in the center. These folds on each side should be perf...
Z-Box (variant B)
In this variant of my Z-Box, the serifs on the letter Z are truncated and the letter has a more rounded look. At the time I designed the original and the B ...
Braided Pinwheel Tessellation (variant C)
This is variant C of Braided Pinwheel Tessellation. The molecule looks like a combination of variant A and variant B molecule. There are quite a few layers o...
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.
Star Tessellation (CFW 59)
This is one of Fujimoto’s famous translucent designs — tessellations designed to be viewed in back-light. Fujimoto folded them using thinner paper than the K...
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.
Hex Twist Star (CFW 90)
This star is as simple as it gets — literally just a single rearranged hex twist made on a hexagon of the right size relative to the twist’s central hexagon.
Parallelograms (rotated, dense)
This is an alternate way of laying out molecules of Parallelograms tessellation. Because of how the pleats exiting the molecule are arranged, it is possible ...
Woven Triangles Tessellation VII
Folded from Nicolas Terry Tissue Foil for its good memory and thinness. The glittery texture looks very nice in real life, but makes the model difficult to p...
Scissors (CFW 87)
This star is folded from a hexagon but has triaxial symmetry which reminds me of the biohazard symbol. Compare with CFW 103.
Parallelograms (rotated, sparse)
The way pleats exit the Parallelograms molecule allows the molecules to be connected in more than one way. In the standard Parallelograms layout, individual ...
Parallelograms (clean fold)
When I originally folded Parallelograms in 2020, I designed a clean pre-crease pattern, pre-creased the sheet, and then… was unable to collapse it cleanly. I...
Warp Speed
This Rosette variant is “flattened” and has lower rotational symmetry than most others.
Square Twist Star (CFW 150)
A star from square twist that uses a similar technique as the Dahlia for shaping the petals. It can be seen as a single molecule of Propellers Tessellation (...
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...
Coat of Arms of Mariupol
This is the coat of arms of the city of Mariupol where fierce fighting in the Azovstal iron works is currently taking place. It is not surprising for a port ...
Hexagons and Rhombi
This tessellation differs from most other designs by having lower rotational symmetry: only 180° rather than the 60° typical for tessellations based on a hex...
Hydrangea Basic Form A variant 1
A very simple variant of Fujimoto’s Hydrangea, which does not seem to be popular among folders so far.
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...
Column of Flagellation
Originally, this work was supposed to be a joke, and to get a punny title such as Vertebral Column or Ribbed Column. However, while I was working on it, my v...
Tumbling Square Rosette
Another flat variant of Rosette. This one’s outline is much less round than that of others, hence the name. Especially when framed in an asymmetric manner, t...
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...
Maltese Rosette
This variant of Rosette is called Maltese Rosette because the outline of its “petals” resembles a Maltese cross. In contrast to the plain Rosette, which is 3...
Woven Triangles Tessellation V (purple Ogawa Washi)
Another fold of my Woven Triangles Tessellation V, this time from purple Ogawa Washi paper. It is physically the same sheet which later became Woven Triangle...
Hydrangea Brick (レンガ, Renga) variant
A variant of Fujimoto’s Hydrangea, called Brick (レンガ, Renga).
Whirlwind Tessellation
It took me a while between folding a box decorated with a single molecule and folding a complete tessellation. What you see here is my third attempt as I was...
Stacked Whirlwind Molecule
This is a single molecule which can be tessellated. It is made from a molecule of Whirlwind Tessellation placed inside a larger one. More than the two levels...
Yellow Brick Road
In line with the distinction made in my post on naming origami models, this design is called Brick Road while the particular work seen here is called Yellow ...
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...
Rhombi Rows Tessellation
This tessellation, folded back in 2019, consists of series of rhombi. I do not use patterned paper much, but this time I decided to give it a try and folded ...
Lucky Star Fractal Box (Simplified) Variant B
When you fold variants of my Lucky Star Box, you can extend the star to its fractal form. This particular variant emerges when you apply that procedure to th...
Close-Quarters Folding
This design emerges as one of intermediate stages during the folding of Rosette. I find its extreme minimalism very compelling. This particular work is from...
Rosette
This origami Rosette is a tessellation molecule (14×14 grid for the molecule, 16×16 for the whole work shown here), but I haven’t folded a model of more than...
Z-Box
This box is decorated with a tessellation molecule representing the letter Z. Though it may not be obvious from its looks, this design is closely related to ...
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 Shy Flower
This box features a tessellation molecule which I called Shy Flower. I derived it from my earlier Braided Pinwheel Tessellation. The flower is 3D and its mos...
Arrow Corrugation
In March 2020, shortly after the CfC2 conference, as the pandemic was just taking off, the origami Community for Creators started organizing online origami m...
Whirlwind Box (folded from full grid)
This Whirlwind Box is folded from a full 16×16 grid on copy paper. You can have a look at a fold from Tant paper and without the grid for a comparison of the...
Crowding Butterflies (diagonal 48 grid)
In the description of my recent Hydrangea Tessellation fold, I mentioned that I had recently experimented with different variants of the “leaves” which form ...
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...
Hydrangea Tessellation
Believe it or not, over all these years of folding tessellations, I never folded a clean tiling of Fujimoto’s Hydrangea. I recently decided to make up for th...
Shifted Bricks (16×16 grid)
This fold of Shifted Bricks is folded from a full 16×16 grid, so you can see grid lines on the bricks. Such a smaller version is what we can fold during work...
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 ...
Miura-Ori (asymmetric)
This is a simple modification of the Miura-Ori, with left and right legs at each vertex being different lengths. I later refolded this model into The Cliff, ...
Lucky Star Box (Simplified) Variant B
This is variant B of my Lucky Star Box (Simplified). It is derived from the basic variant by pushing inside the box the empty areas around the star, which va...
Brick Wall
This classic model, often referred to by the name Momotani’s Wall, is an example of an iso-area tessellation: the front and back display the same pattern. In...
Hydrangea (Tant)
Another fold of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea. I’ve kept two outermost leaf layers free of unnecessary creases. For deeper layers, it becomes much harder.
Tic-Tac-Toe Board Foldable into a Bowl
This model, which includes tessellation elements, has a 3×3 field of squares which reminds me of a tic-tac-toe game board. The pattern is based on Square Pix...
Double Spearhead Tessellation (24×24)
This fold of Double Spearhead Tessellation with 6×6 molecules (24×24 grid) looks most interesting in back-light due to the fibers of mulberry paper becoming ...
Double Spearhead Tessellation Variants
This is a model folded back in 2018 which I somehow forgot to post earlier. Each molecule of my Double Spearhead Tessellation can be modified by sinking any ...
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.
Parallelograms (prototype)
This is the prototype fold of Parallelograms Tessellation. It’s quite representative of my design technique: a quick doodle on a small grid and a rough sketc...
Chrysanthemum
This design is my modification of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea. Despite the change being very minor, it allows the model to be shaped in a more three-dimension...
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...
Woven Triangles Tessellation VI
Another pattern in the Woven Triangles Family. This particular work uses standard, flat shaping but a different, three-dimensional shaping is also possible. ...
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...
Pythagorean Tiling with 1:1 ratio
A variant of Pythagorean Tiling with 1:1 size ratio between the sides of the two types of squares. This effectively makes the pattern uniform (all squares ar...
Maltese Cross Tessellation II
Another approach to the subject of Maltese Cross. The molecule can be tessellated or used on a box as in this picture (I haven’t folded a multi-molecule tess...
Bible
After a book with a face on the cover (called Biography), I designed a book with a Maltese Cross on the cover (aptly called Bible). This model’s design is ba...
Composition of Squares II
This model is based on Square Pixel Tessellation, and is closely related to my earlier Composition of Squares I.
Black Framed Heart
A Framed Heart, folded from black Goat Skin paper.
Lucky Star Fractals (10 different colors)
Ten level-3 Lucky Star Fractals, folded from metallic paper in different colors. This is just a small subset of how many times I have folded this model over ...
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.
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).
Clover Folding (blue)
Along with the other Clover Folding model, this is the oldest picture of a tessellation folded by me (taken in June 2015).
Hydrangea (Prägo Kristall paper)
This is just a simple Hydrangea, designed by Shuzo Fujimoto, but I think it looks really nice in back light. Folded from Grünperga Kristall Prägo, a kind of ...
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 ...
Hydrangea from book wrapping foil
Model folded from transparent book wrapping fold which shows the internal structure of the model in an interesting way. Have a look at the detailed review of...
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...
Clematis Tessellation
My idea behind this tessellation was designing something easy to learn for beginners but at the same to make it reasonably well looking. The models I have us...
Woven Triangles Tessellation V
Woven Triangles Tessellation V, folded from Elephant Hide paper. 32×32 grid for the whole model, 8×8 per molecule.
Pythagorean Tiling with 3:2 Ratio
This model is the same as the first Pythagorean Tiling variant I folded, but the side length ratio of big squares to small squares is 3:2 instead of 2:1. As ...
2021
This model took me longer than I expected, but better late than never, so: happy New Year 2021! This model uses a new tessellation molecule of mine which I h...
Woven Triangles Tessellation IV
Woven Triangles Tessellation IV — this is the only variant in the series so far which uses a 10×10 grid per molecule rather than just 8×8.
Whirlwind Box
This box is decorated with Whirlwind molecule which can also be used for a tessellation. Its design is closely related to my Woven Triangles family, but I ga...
Woven Triangles Tessellation III (Symmetric)
Woven Triangles Tessellation III, the symmetric layout with molecules of two different chiralities.
Woven Triangles Tessellation III (Asymmetric)
Third work in the Woven Triangles series. Just like number I, number III has a pleat arrangement which allows for two distinct molecule layouts: the asymmetr...
Biography
This origami book features a portrait on the front cover, so I called it Biography. The structure of the book is basically the same as in my Long Story Short...
Woven Triangles Tessellation II
Just like all other models in the series, this origami tessellation is derived from Rectangle and Square Flagstone by applying squash folds in the right plac...
Allegro IPO
Yesterday, my employer, Allegro, went public in what was Poland’s largest IPO so far and Europe’s largest this year. Hopefully, the charts continue growing a...
Woven Triangles Tessellation I (Asymmetric)
This model uses the same molecule as the symmetric version but all molecules have the same chirality. This causes each row and each column to be shifted by t...
Woven Triangles Tessellation I (Symmetric)
This is the first model in my Woven Triangles series which you’ve already seen some examples of on boxes. This tessellation is derived from Rectangle and Squ...
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...
Triangles (32×32 grid)
Triangles, folded from 32×32 grid. Since the molecule is 8×6 grid units, this leaves one grid unit of margin at the top and at the bottom of the model. You c...
Book with Diamond on Cover
Recently, I gave an Origami Connect workshop on my origami book model Long Story Short. Preparing for the workshop motivated me to revisit an idea which I ha...
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...
Triangles (16×16 grid)
This origami tessellation is derived from my earlier Parallelograms Tessellation. By piecing together two symmetric “halves” of a parallelogram, we end up wi...
Parallelograms
This is an older design I finally got some time to make a decent fold of (have a look at the prototype from 2017). I’m pretty sure I’ve seen something very s...
Stars among Hexagons
This origami tessellation is based on a geometric pattern I spotted on a door in the Barcelona Cathedral during my trip back from CfC 2 convention. A design ...
Onion Tessellation
The base for this tessellation is identical to one of the intermediate steps of folding Lucky Star Tessellation and seems to be something Tomek Siwak also ca...
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...
Growth 1.1
I recently stumbled upon an older model of mine, Growth Tessellation, in one of my boxes, and I decided to rework it a little. I added just a few touches whi...
Composition of Squares I
This model is based on a simple technique which I used also in Growth and Square Pixel Tessellation models. Other interesting arrangements, with more or less...
Greek Cross Flagstone Tessellation
This origami tessellation was inspired by a pavement pattern I noticed some time ago in my home city of Lublin, Poland, at the old cemetery and in the open-a...
Radioactive Tessellation II
This model is derived from my Radioactive Tessellation by adding a triangular frame around the radioactivity symbol. This change also makes it possible to sh...
Epiphany IV
This rendition of the Star of Bethlehem is based on the same general idea as Epiphany III, but made to better resemble an actual comet. It features a double ...
Two Hearts Framed
I designed this model as a wedding gift, starting out from my Framed Heart model.
Radioactive Tessellation I
A recent design of mine, this tessellation is relatively simple to fold, but the end result looks quite interesting. On the back side, I used some modified t...
Woven Parallelograms Tessellation
I derived this design from my older Double Spearhead Tessellation. The name comes from the pattern on the front side.
Box with Decorated Maltese Cross
Box with a heavily stylized Maltese Cross. The molecule can be tessellated or used on a box as in this picture. This design uses my Flagstone Paneling techni...
Star of David Tessellation II
This tessellation is derived from Lucky Star Tessellation, but due to the different arrangement of paper layers, this one can’t be fractalized. The outline o...
Twisted Bird Base Fractal
This is a recursion of my Twisted Bird Base Tessellation. The recursive / fractal version looks interesting, but it’s rather hard to collapse.
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.
Box with Maltese Cross II
Another approach to the subject of Maltese Cross. The molecule can be tessellated or used on a box as in this picture. This design uses my Flagstone Paneling...
Box with Maltese Cross I
An origami box featuring the heraldic Maltese Cross. The molecule is based on the one used in Maltese Cross Framed and a slight variation of the one used in ...
Lucky Star Fractal (level 7)
This is a level-7 Lucky Star Fractal, the largest number of levels I folded so far.
Box with Cross Pattee IV
An origami box featuring the heraldic Cross Pattee. This model uses my Flagstone Paneling technique in order to achieve a completely clean space around the m...
Box with Cross Pattee III
An origami box featuring the heraldic Cross Pattee. This model uses my Flagstone Paneling technique in order to achieve a completely clean space around the m...
Box with Cross Pattee II
An origami box featuring the heraldic Cross Pattee. This model uses my Flagstone Paneling technique in order to achieve a completely clean space around the m...
Box with Cross Pattee I
An origami box featuring the heraldic Cross Pattee.I used the same molecule in Cross Pattee Tessellation, and just as the tessellation, the box also uses my ...
Lucky Star Fractal Tessellation
This is a tessellation of the Lucky Star Fractal. The standalone star was designed independently by several people, starting with Shuzo Fujimoto. I don’t kno...
Braided Pinwheel Tessellation
This tessellation comes in two molecule variants. Despite being a kind of twist, molecules can be made to turn left or right independent of each other, i.e. ...
Simple Woven Rhombi Box
A simple origami box, based on my Woven Rhombi Tessellation. Folded from a sheet of unique paper with a subtle floral motif, whose name I do not know.
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...
Lucky Star Tessellation
This is a tessellation of the molecule which I first used in Lucky Star Box and which I later extended into Lucky Star Fractal. As I learned after the fact, ...
Lucky Star Fractal (Open Back)
This model is a variant of the Lucky Star Fractal (aka Logarithmic Star), designed by myself and independently by many others before me, starting with Shuzo ...
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 ...
Dodecagons
In this tessellation, I used the same technique of doubling the number of a polygon’s sides as in Sad Octagons, this time making dodecagons from hexagons.
Blazing Propellers Tessellation Molecule (30×30 grid)
An extended version of my Blazing Propellers molecule, folded from 30×30 grid (32×32 for complete model with margin) rather than the standard 14×14 grid.
Still Life with Epiphany III
Another attempt at folding the subject of Star of Bethlehem, this time using the Lucky Star molecule (invented independently with Fujimoto, Haligami and many...
Lucky Star Fractal (level 3)
A level-3 fold of Lucky Star Fractal, this time from gray metallic paper. I rarely fold a model multiple times, but this particular model is so nice I have f...
Lucky Star Fractal
This is a recursive version of the Lucky Star molecule. Just like the non-recursive version, it can be tessellated or used for decorating a box. The back of ...
Unripe Sunflower Tessellation
This is a modification of my Sunflower Tessellation. The molecules (“sunflower seeds”) are flatter and the petals are shorter. The back side is also more int...
Blazing Propellers Tessellation (Elephant Hide Paper)
Another fold of my Blazing Propellers Tessellation, this time 4×4 molecules (64×64 grid).
Twist Again Tessellation
This origami tessellation combines elements from some of my other models. While reading Robert Lang’s tessellation book, I realized that many molecules can b...
Sunflower Tessellation (3×3) with Molecule Variants
This model shows how the basic molecule of my Sunflower Tessellation can be modified in order to rearrange the direction the individual “seeds” are pointing....
Lucky Star Box (Simplified)
This is a model I will be teaching in just two weeks at a workshop during the 2018 CDO origami convention in Italy. The star can be used as a tessellation mo...
Sunflower Tessellation (Refold)
It took me 1½ years before I decided to fold my Sunflower Tessellation once again, this time from rare yellow Elephant Hide paper. I think this is a better ...
Rhombus Fractal
Rhombus Fractal, an origami tessellation designed by Endre Somos (and independently also by Joel Cooper and by Wei Fu), folded by me. You may also find inter...
Mini Sunflower (Kaiser paper)
Mini-Sunflower Tessellation, folded from Kaiser (Stark) paper.
Stacked Propellers Tessellation
A refold of my older design, Stacked Propellers Tessellation, this time as a complete tessellation rather than a single molecule. 64×64 grid.
Sad Octagons
This model uses a technique I came up with recently, which makes it possible to double the number of sides of any regular polygon when it is used as the cent...
Spread-Sunk Square Twist Tessellation (Rhino Hide paper)
A new fold of my older model, with slightly different angles. As the name says, the molecule is a square twist with spread-sinks in the corners of the centra...
Phantasma Fractal Variant
This is my variant of Edward Mistretta’s model, Phantasma Fractal. It’s a nice design which can be folded as a single molecule, or tessellated.
Lucky Star Box
Origami box with Lucky Star molecule. The molecule can be tessellated and is based on hexagonal 8×8×8 grid.
Flow
A tessellation derived from my other model, Woven Rhombi. 4×4 grid units per molecule, or 8×8 if you want to consider a complete hexagonal tile a molecule.
Double-Bottom Double Spearhead Tessellation
A modification of my earlier design, Double Spearhead Tessellation. Due to the double bottom with more paper layers, this model doesn’t look as nicely back-l...
Wedge Flower Box (hexagonal)
A hexagonal variant of my Wedge Flower Box. Due to the different angles than in square grid, petals do not automatically align in a nice way, so they have to...
Box with Wedge Flower Variant
This box is decorated with a variant of my Wedge Flower molecule in which the central part is flat. Folded from Textured Paper from BOS Supplies.
Wedge Flower Box
Origami box decorated with a molecule of my Wedge Flower Tessellation. Folded from Via Felt 100 gsm paper stained with tea using a technique developed by my ...
Wedge Flower Tessellation
A new tessellation design of mine, 8×8 square grid per molecule. Awagami Kozo Natural Select paper courtesy of Melina Hermsen. Since this was my first fold u...
Ridges Corrugation (32×32 grid)
A larger fold of my Ridges Corrugation, folded from a 32×32 grid. Folded from the big grid, the model curls up more than the 16×16 version and can be used as...
Box with Star of David
A recent design of mine, a box with the Star of David, seen from the top. Folded from a single sheet of Tant paper without cuts or glue. The star can be tess...
Star Interlace Tessellation
This is a design derived from my Square Interlace Tessellation. A more precise name would be Pursed Square Interlace Tessellation but I found it too technica...
Latin Cross Tessellation
An origami tessellation for Good Friday. The basic structure of the Latin cross is based on Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea and could easily be modified to have d...
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...
Sharpened Square Interlace Tessellation
Sharpened Square Interlace Tessellation, a simple variant of my Square Interlace Tessellation. As in the original version, each molecule uses a 6×6 grid. Fol...
Dune Flower
A different arrangement of the same molecule as in my Dune Tessellation. Some other arrangements are also possible with a bit of tweaking.
Her Majesty’s Tessellation (copper color)
Another fold of Her Majesty’s Tessellation. Folded from Elephant Hide paper, painted with copper-color acrylic paint.
Ridges Corrugation (Citrus Crush paper)
A different fold of Ridges Corrugation. The back-lit view shows how the corrugation folded from a square ends up a rhombic shape.
Patched Square Interlace Tessellation
A slightly modified variant of my Square Interlace Tessellation.
Happy 2018!
Happy New Year 2018! This is the first fold of my recent idea for making pixel tessellations, called Butterfly Pixel Tessellation. The molecule is basically ...
Monument Valley Corrugation
This is my Monument Valley Corrugation, squeezed inside Predictable Box which I designed for this very purpose. The back side of the corrugation is less inte...
Dune Tessellation
A new design of mine, Dune Tessellation (long slit variant).
Shark Teeth Corrugation (blue Elephant Hide)
Another fold of Shark Teeth Corrugation, this time from rare blue Elephant Hide paper.
Ridges Corrugation
A new origami corrugation of mine. The model tends to curve slightly but in this case it actually makes it more interesting rather than being an issue. You c...
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.
Celtic Cross 1.1
An improved version of my Celtic Cross. Based on standing crosses found throughout the British Isles.
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.
Felix Culpa Tessellation
Believe it or not, this tessellation is closely related to my Double Spearhead Tessellation.
Her Majesty’s Tessellation
The same molecule as in Her Majesty’s Box, used for a tessellation. Diagonally rotated square grid, 32×32.
Her Majesty’s Box (gold Washi)
A box designed on my way back home from BOS50 convention (I had the idea for the molecule earlier, though). Folded from a sheet of gold-red Washi.
Metal Star
Metal Star, designed by Małgorzata Łodo. From a hexagon with 16×16×16 hex grid.
Framed Two-in-One Flower with Color Change
A slight modification of my Framed Two-in-One Flower, with a color-changed frame. The colour change is very simple: basically, in the first step the paper is...
Her Majesty’s Box (WIP)
A new box, aptly named Her Majesty’s Box, taking shape on the train back from the 50th Anniversary Convention of British Origami Society. Both the convention...
Double Spearhead Tessellation with Woven Spearheads Tessellation Margin
I will be teaching my Double Spearhead Tessellation in a workshop during BOS 50th anniversary convention in Stratford-upon-Avon a week from now.
Woven Spearheads Tessellation
This tessellation is just a slight modification of Double Spearhead Tessellation but it looks much more like Woven Rhombi Tessellation.
Framed Two-in-One Flower (Purple)
A fold of Framed Two-in-One Flower, folded from purple Tant paper.
Chevron Corrugation (UD-DU) from Blue Khepera Paper
A new fold of my UD-DU Chevron Corrugation.
Hydrangea Cube (Harmony paper)
Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea can be used as a modular unit. The method was first published by Meenakshi Mukerji and then reinvented independently by myself. I ...
Intersecting Cylinders
This is a very cool model, designed by Roman Remme.
Viper Corrugation
This corrugation is just a single row of molecules from Nest of Vipers Corrugation. This picture shows the opposite side of the corrugation than the former.
Nest of Vipers Corrugation
My new origami corrugation. Since it causes the sheet to curl, I’m thinking about using it for a lampshade or similar object. Different curling patterns can ...
Union Jack Tessellation
This origami tessellation represents Union Jack, the flag of the UK. Since the pattern is quite intricate, even a single molecule can make an interesting mo...
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...
Sharp Propellers Tessellation
A minor modification of my Propellers Tessellation: the blades are sharper and more slender than in the original.
Hydrangea Heart
My modification of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea into a heart shape. I found on flickr a similar model, designed by Francis Ow.
Box with Ribbon Bow (diagonal)
A box with a ribbon bow, constructed using a molecule of my Sunflower Tessellation and with color change. This is a variant where the ribbon runs along the d...
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...
Wedding Day Envelope (with Twisted Heart Molecule)
An envelope for a wedding day card, featuring two hearts. The hearts are molecules of my Twisted Heart Tessellation. Basically, they are modified square twis...
Thermos
This is what one of the stages of collapsing my Big and Small Squares Tessellation looks like. I couldn’t help but think of a thermos bottle. The extra textu...
Corrugation: Shark Teeth
My new iso-area origami corrugation which I called Shark Teeth due to the sharp triangular molecules of which it is composed. Like many other corrugations, t...
Box with Ribbon Bow
Box with a ribbon bow, constructed using a molecule of my Sunflower Tessellation and with color change added to make the ribbon stand out better from the bac...
Stars and Squares (diagonal grid)
Folding Stars and Squares Tessellation from a diagonal grid (rotated 45°) leads to an interesting effect. At the edges, small triangles form, creating a jagg...
Stacked Hearts
Stacked molecules of my Hearts Tessellation. This model is a fractal, and you can go on stacking heart upon heart indefinitely, each twice as large as the pr...
Stars and Squares (gift-wrapping paper)
A back-lit picture of Stars and Squares Tessellation, invented independently by me and Shuzo Fujimoto. You can find a similar backlit picture of this model i...
Leafless Hydrangea
This Leafless Hydrangea model is a simple modification of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea. It’s interesting how a simple change can modify a model’s appearance. J...
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Origami is but pieces of colored paper, easily consumed by the elements and forgotten.
Celtic Cross Tessellation
An origami tessellation based on my Celtic Cross model. This fold has a margin and extra space between molecules for a grid of 28×28.
Big and Small Squares
While designing Scroll of time: 2017, I needed a widget which would allow me to have some square twists on one side of the paper and then to smoothly transit...
Hearts Tessellation
A quick tessellation of hearts. Molecule design is somewhat similar to Heart Tessellation by Haligami (Halina Rościszewska-Narloch).
Rhombic Pixel Tessellation
This model is a modification of my Square Pixel Tessellation. I just scaled the CP in one direction and so pixels became rhombi.
Mini-Sunflower
This is a minimalistic version of my Sunflower Tessellation, folded from a 16×16 grid. It consists of just a single molecule surrounded by petals, and thus c...
Sunflower Tessellation
My new tessellation design, folded from a single sheet of Tant paper.
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.
Bed of Nails 3D Tessellation
Bed of Nails 3D, an origami tessellation folded from a single sheet of Elephant Hide paper; no cutting or glue. It is possible to adjust the length of the sp...
Scroll of Time: 2017
I wanted to try something new this year, so I folded this model from thin parchment paper whereas most of the time I use much thicker papers. Modern parchmen...
Hydrangea (manuscript pattern)
Happy New Year!
Celtic Cross
This free-standing cross was inspired by high crosses — stone monuments erected throughout the Middle Ages in Ireland and Britain.
Just Stars
This is what you get when you take Stars and Squares Tessellation and take away the squares. What is left is Just Stars!
Chevron Corrugation (UUDD-DDUU)
Another variant of my Chevron Corrugation.
Golden Jubilee Corrugation
After I designed this corrugation, I learned that Ron Resch had already designed it in the 1960-s, over 50 years ago. That’s a Golden Jubilee for this model....
Square Interlace Box
This box is decorated with a pattern of Square Interlace Tessellation. I designed it as a container for a matching bracelet which is visible in some pictures...
One-Part Box with Two-in-one Flower Tessellation
Most boxes I design are two-part boxes: the lid and the bottom part are made from two separate sheets. This one is a flat, single-piece box (almost a tato): ...
Heptagonal Star Box (Chevron Corrugation)
This seven-sided star shape can be used as one half of a two-piece box or alone as an ornament. This heptagonal star design is based around my Chevron Corrug...
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).
Chevron Corrugation (UD-DU)
This is a new variant of my Chevron Corrugation. The variant shown here was designed by myself, and, as I later learned, also by others, though with differen...
The Cliff
Origami corrugation, based on an asymmetric zig-zag pattern (actually I folded this model using exactly the same sheet of paper).
Hexagonal Diamond Corrugation
I derived this corrugation from Iso-Area Diamond Corrugation by adding some extra space between the diagonal creases. This changes the appearance of the corr...
Square Interlace Tessellation (from Elephant Hide paper)
A refold of my Square Interlace Tessellation with graphite Elephant Hide paper. I think it’s much better than my original fold — funny how over time one lear...
Box with Super-Ninja Star Tessellation — Comparison of Variants
These boxes are decorated with a molecule of Super-Ninja Star Tessellation which is an extension of Ninja Star Tessellation. The super-variant has larger bla...
Box with Super-Ninja Star Tessellation (Thin Lid Variant)
A box decorated with a molecule of Super-Ninja Star Tessellation which is an extension of Ninja Star Tessellation. The super-variant has larger blades.
Box with Super-Ninja Star Tessellation (Thick Lid Variant)
A box decorated with a molecule of Super-Ninja Star Tessellation which is an extension of Ninja Star Tessellation. The super-variant has larger blades.
Walled Garden Tessellation
Walled Garden Tessellation, designed and folded by me. Molecule based around a 12×12 grid.
Box with Twisted Bird Base Tessellation Molecule
Box with a single molecule of my Twisted Bird Base Tessellation.
Iso-Area Diamond Corrugation
The original Diamond Corrugation was invented independently by Ilan Garibi and Andrea Russo (who used the name Triangùli in speculo).
Framed Two-in-One Flower (Variant 3)
Yet another variant of framed molecule of my Two-in-One Flower Tessellation. Molecule and frame folded from a single sheet of Satogami paper (16×16 grid).
Framed Two-in-One Flower (Variant 2)
Another variant (Variant 2) of framed molecule of my Two-in-One Flower Tessellation. Molecule and frame folded from a single sheet of Satogami paper (16×16 g...
Framed Two-in-One Flower (Variant 1)
A single molecule of Variant 1 of my Two-in-One Flower Tessellation together with a frame, folded from a single sheet of Satogami paper (16×16 grid).
Woven Rhombi
This piece uses an 18×18 grid but since each molecule is 4×4, a 16×16 grid works as well, though you get a straight edge instead of the overhanging rhombi. I...
Thorny Stalk Tessellation
This pattern, derived from my Double Spearhead Tessellation curls up, forming a tube which looks like the stalk of a rose or another thorny plant. When you l...
Box with Walled Garden Tessellation Molecule
Another tessellation disguised as a box so that I can get away with folding just a single molecule, but I do plan to fold a full-fledged tessellation some ti...
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...
Laputa
This origami model is a variant of my Stacked propellers Tessellation. It is named after Laputa, the flying island described in Gulliver’s Travels. I thought...
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...
Cluster Tessellation
Cluster Tessellation, designed and folded by Michał Kosmulski. There are several different ways of achieving a similar effect but with a slightly different p...
Tessellated Anuradha
Meenakshi Mukerji’s Anuradha was originally designed as a modular origami unit but after minor modification it can also be used as a tessellation molecule. F...
Maltese Cross Framed
A single molecule of my Maltese Cross Tessellation, which is closely related to the Cross Pattee Tessellation presented in the Coat of Arms of Rzeszów model....
Coat of Arms of Rzeszów
Coat of arms of the city of Rzeszów, executed in origami from a single square sheet of paper. The cross visible in the center of the shield, known as Cross p...
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...
Sprout Tessellation (refold)
I refolded my Sprout Tessellation for the German Origami Convention in Erkner. Asymmetry and folding the grid at an angle relative to paper edges are inspire...
Growth
This origami tessellation is made from Square Pixel Tessellation molecule variants which allow the molecules to be made in different sizes.
Molecules Great and Small
This origami tessellation is an experiment in mixing molecules of different sizes in a single model. The molecules come from my Spread-Sunk Square Twist Tess...
Hugging Triangles Corrugation folded from fabric
My Hugging Triangles Corrugation, executed in fabric-covered paper with aluminum foil backing (three-layer composite material).
Double Spearhead Tessellation
This is an origami design derived from my Square Pixel Tessellation. It was featured in Robert Lang’s tessellation book.
Tympanum Corrugation (iso-area)
Iso-area variant of my Tympanum Corrugation. Since both sides are the same, there is no net tension, and the model stays flat without trying to curl up.
Square Pixel Tessellation
This is my recent design for folding arbitrary bitmap images as origami tessellations. Unlike using four-sink-base (see Saturn Tessellation), each molecule r...
Tympanum Corrugation
A new origami design of mine, called Tympanum Corrugation because it resembles the tympanum of a Greek temple. The idea came to me after I designed this dog ...
Sprout Tessellation
Sprout Tessellation, designed and folded by Michał Kosmulski. Derived from my Squares and Crosses Tess.
Squares and Crosses Tessellation
My recent design, derived from Ninja Star Tessellation. 6×6 square grid per molecule. This design can be further modified (pictures coming up soon).
Stacked Propellers Tessellation (single molecule)
This is a fractalized version of my Propellers Tessellation. Stacked Propellers Tessellation is folded from a 16×16 grid per molecule in this case but you ca...
Ice Cube Tray
This ice cube tray was folded from a single sheet of Elephant Hide paper sandwiched with aluminium foil in order to make it water-tight. The tray itself is a...
Grating Tessellation
This is Grating Tessellation, a new origami design of mine. Vertical walls of the grating divide the whole plane into small cells which give this tessellatio...
SSST-Propellers Hybrid Tessellation
This tessellation is a hybrid of my SSST (Spread-Sunk Square Twist) and Propellers tessellations.
Rosebud Maze Tessellation
A new tessellation, designed and folded by me. Basic molecule is 6×6 grid units. In this particular execution, a lot of extra margin was added around and bet...
Elevated Twists
These pyramid-shaped structures appear as intermediate stages when collapsing some more complex tessellations. Basically, they are square twists in the uprig...
Puffed Big Propellers (two variants)
The basic idea of Propellers Tessellation can be extended into countless variants, especially when one goes from the original 8×8 grid to larger grid sizes.
Dancing Squares Tessellation
A simple modification of the square twist, so it may well have been invented by others before. Since it’s hard to fold the creases exactly, each square is a ...
Spread-Sunk Square Twist Tessellation (SSST)
This tessellation is a very simple variation of the standard square twist which results, nonetheless, in an interesting pattern. Each of the four corners of ...
Ninja Star Tessellation
I came up with this design while playing with variants of my Propellers Tessellation but then realized that many others had already come up with this pattern...
Octabird Tessellation
It may not look like it, but this tessellation is a variant of my Twisted Bird Base Tessellation. This and the octagonal pattern result in the name octabird....
Propellers Tessellation (short blade variant)
This is the short-blade variant of my Propellers Tessellation. Molecule is 6×6 grid units but in this rendering an extra margin of one unit is added.
Propellers Tessellation
This tessellation is closely related to my Square Interlace Tessellation. Grid is 8×8 per molecule. Here you can see the variant with long propeller blades b...
Happy New Year 2016!
Welcome to 2016! This seven-segment display, executed in origami, shows the current year, and is folded from a single sheet of Elephant Hide paper. With a li...
Chevron Corrugation (iso-area)
This is a variant of my Chevron Corrugation in which every other row of chevrons is reversed, i.e. pointing down instead of up. This makes the corrugation is...
Chevron Corrugation
Corrugation, designed and folded by me, but later I learned that Daniel Kwan folded this pattern before, inspired by a similar model by Charles Hoberman (det...
Fir Cone / Christmas Ornament
These fir cones make nice Christmas tree decorations. Designed by myself, they are based on the pleated part of Super Pineapple Tessellation.
Double-Blintzed Bird Base Corrugation
After tessellating the blintzed bird base, a natural next step for me was to double-blintz it. Bird base blintzed two times can be tessellated, and it result...
Blintzed Bird Base Corrugation
This corrugation is exactly what it says on the tin: blintzed bird bases tiled side by side. Large tilings have a slight tendency towards curling, but it can...
Twisted Bird Base Tessellation (simple molecules)
This origami model consists of the simplest molecules of my Twisted Bird Base Tessellation. Each molecule is basically a bird base with the central part rais...
Lily Pond Picture Frame
This is a picture frame for 16:9 format, decorated with a variant of my Lily Pond Tessellation. The lilies were modelled on top of four-sink bases instead of...
Sunshine Tessellation
The molecule is 6×6 grid units, so normally 3×3 molecules would require an 18×18 grid. Since folding power-of-two grids is much more convenient than others, ...
Square Interlace Tessellation
This is a more conventional way of folding my square interlace tessellation than the bracelet. I believe this model to be my first truly original tessellatio...
Tessellated Bracelet (Square Interlace Tessellation)
Bracelet featuring a new design of mine, the Square Interlace Tessellation.
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...
Sunk Square Twist Tessellation
This pattern I recently came up with seems to have a lot of potential for square grid tessellations. I have a number of interesting patterns based on it whic...
Lily Pond Tessellation
This tessellation is based on the sunk square twist pattern (visible in one of the images: it is the stage before shaping any of the molecules into flower sh...
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.
Four-Sink-Base Tessellation
This kind of tessellation is not very interesting in itself, but has been invented and used by many authors independently as basis for more advanced designs....
Radial Zig-Zag Tessellation
This is a rather obvious variant of the classic Zig Zag Corrugation, so it’s certainly been done by others before. This model was mostly free-folded with onl...
Ruff Corrugation
A very simple design, so it’s probably been invented before. Inspired by Pineapple Tessellation and its variants. Paper aspect ratio of approximately 5:1.
Hugging Triangles Corrugation
At first sight you might see only octagons and squares in this corrugation. But, in my opinion, the interesting part is the small triangles placed pairwise i...
Super-Pineapple Tessellation (Extreme Double Pineapple Tessellation)
This is my design which extends Ilan Garibi’s Pineapple Tessellation. In this version, the pineapple is larger: the central pleated part is two grid diagonal...
Stars and Squares Tessellation
Yet another fine example of me reinventing the wheel. After I designed this pattern, I found out it had been already published — in 1982 (!) — by no less tha...
Bed of Nails Tessellation (Long Nail Variant)
This variant of my Bed of Nails Tessellation features longer nails, which have additionally been sharpened at the tips compared to the basic version.
Bed of Nails Tessellation
I was inspired to design this tessellation resembling a bed of nails after a comment from P. Colman on flickr regarding my Fenced Tiling of Fujimoto’s Clove...
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...
Down the Rabbit Hole
This tessellation consists of concentric square twists of growing size. The medium is self-adhesive holographic foil glued onto tracing paper. The spiral is ...
Hydrangea Picture Frame
This picture frame can hold a standard 15×10 cm photograph. It consists of four molecules of the Hydrangea Tessellation (designed by Shuzo Fujimoto), spaced ...
Hydrangea Icosahedron
After I made a Hydrangea Cube, Hydrangea Icosahedron was the next logical step. Just as in the cube, the Hydrangea Tessellation by Shuzo Fujimoto is used as ...
Hydrangea Cube
I came up with the idea of connecting Hydrangeas to form a modular origami design independently, then found out Meenakshi Mukerji had published it in her boo...