You may be familiar with origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, but chances are you haven’t come across smocking. This technique refers to the way fabric can be bunched by stitches, often made in ...

Novel insight into the “Sareh twist” suggests that this mechanism underlying origami tessellations could become a key element in the design of origami-inspired structures for science and engineering ...

Madonna Yoder’s Advent of Tessellations is back for a third year of folding fun. Also called tiling, tessellation is the process of covering a surface using geometric shapes with no overlapping. The ...

Perhaps you’ve marveled at someone taking a piece of paper and folding it to produce the shape of a bird or flower. That general practice served as Madonna Yoder’s introduction to origami. “It started ...

An origami exhibit at New York’s Cooper Union college that features the work of 88 artists from around the world reveals the outer limits of paper folding and its breathtaking range of possibilities.

At first glance — and at double take, too — Joel Cooper's sculptural faces look like they're carved from stone. Certainly not folded from a single sheet of paper. When Cooper, a Lawrence, Kan., ...