Here's a new twist based original origami tessellation that I just completed the other day. It's pretty simple . I needed something to do on a rainy day. Thin paper and uncomplicated tessellations are perfect for those soggy days when more complex tesses just won't work.  Turns out if you connect six trapezoids to each other you get the central molecule seen above. It was a discovery to me.  From there I just added some small hexagons and repeated the trapezoids.  Where I had some additional corners, I added the triangle twists just for fun. They're not required. You can just leave the corners.  The reverse side is kind of neat. Lots of intersecting and tucked shapes.  I don't currently have the crease pattern for this tessellation . I only worked out the center before hand and kind of figured out the rest on the fly.  But I'll unfold it and add one sometime soon.  Filed under: February 2026 Origami Tessellations

 I had totally forgotten about this tessellation. Honestly, I've probably forgotten many. Hopefully, I'll rediscover them again soon. They're all waiting in a pile for me to do so.  This is a sort of unusual flagstone . Which I've just realized that I have done before. I did it in purple paper then and called it interlocking diamonds .  I was sure as I was folding this one that I had done a similar, but different tessellation. Using all isosceles triangles and no rhombuses.  It's possible I've done that as well, but I can't seem to find it. It's also possible that I thought of doing that, but decided it was too hard. I might've also done it, but didn't like the finished product.  At any rate, it looks way better done with white paper. It backlights really well.   The crease pattern already exists in the original post.

 Something much less intense. Just some fun with classic twists. A bunch of triangle twists and a bunch of rhombus twists in a slightly strange configuration.  Some of the triangle twists are hidden. You could do corners instead, but I like how it looks with the hidden triangles.  Back view is kind of interesting.  This is an easy tessellation . Sometimes it's relaxing to just breeze through something simple.  I meant to fix the edges that aren't quite matched, but apparently, I forgot. Had to upload it anyway. Trying to catch up. So far behind on adding the new stuff.  Crease pattern is included below. I'm pretty sure this is the right one. Do let me know if it's not. 

This is a tessellation that I did probably a month or two ago. It just got lost in the shuffle. I think a lot of them have. I'll have to go back and check for others that have been overlooked.  I realized this hadn't been uploaded when I was in instagram and the photos of it showed up there, but not here.  When I saw it again, I remembered how much I like it. It uses the same starting point as ' Disco Dancing ', but then I go off in a completely different direction for the rest of it.  Interesting note... I actually had an additional rhombus where the four triangles intersect and decided mid fold to change it to the current config.  As with 'Disco Dancing' the triangle twists on the reverse side that surround the open back hexes spin in the opposite direction of what is typical. So it's a little tricky to fold them over.  Other than that, it's a fairly straightforward design. A difficult tessellation , but not a crazy hard one.  My crease pattern is inc...

 This is an origami tessellation that I just completed a few days ago. I thought of it a few days before that, but failed to successfully execute it the first time around.  It's a really tricky one. I'd say that it's an advanced tessellation , for sure. I found it quite difficult to fold. Maybe partially because it's a style that I don't do that often. But also, because it's a style that is just inherently finicky.  I came up with it by folding an ordinary open back hexagon. Then I decided to do reverse folds on three of the six edges. That's how I got the center triangle.  Reverse folds are something leftover from the days when I did origami animals and things like that. Other people's. Not my own.  Every once in a while, those techniques that I picked up doing those early learning models still crop up in my mind to use in a new tessellations.  The other folds of the molecule were just simple natural edges I used in order to be able to repeat the pat...

 This is a weird one as far as original tessellations go. I was playing around with collapsing hexagons. Once you do the initial collapse, you can then create a series of six hexagons tucked into each other around the center. Pretty standard stuff.  But this gives you a whole lot of corners that you can use to create triangle twists.  I folded two triangles on two sides opposite each other and then I folded them back on themselves. I did the same thing again to the other two corners right next to the first set and folded them back on the themselves as well. That's how I created the pairs of rhombuses. You can even see the rhombuses in the diagram below. Nestled between each set of four triangle twists.  The remaining two corners per molecule can also become twists (as seen at the center). Or you can just tuck them under. Or you can stand them up like I tried to do on the outskirts. My paper didn't really want to salute. It's not that impressive to look at, but it's ...

This origami tessellation is just me playing around with triangle and rhombus twists. It's not too fancy.  It starts out as a central offset hex twist with six triangles twisting around it. Three on the front and three on the back.  I add some rhombus twists on both sides and then repeat.  It is a symmetrical design. The same thing happens on each side of the paper.  It's an intermediate tessellation . It's pretty easy to fold if you have even just a little experience folding.  I'm pretty sure I have the crease pattern somewhere. Need to find it. There are a few crease patterns that I have to locate and upload. I've been lax in that department, but hopefully I'll rectify that very soon.  Update: crease pattern added.

 This is an original tessellation that I mapped out probably a few months ago. However, upon seeing it diagrammed, I thought to myself that it would be a pain in the ass to fold it and decided to leave it for another time.  Then, I quickly forgot about it altogether.  That is, until this past week. Where I rediscovered the crease pattern and decided that it was very cool and worth attempting.  Turns out it was somewhat difficult , but not as bad as I thought it would be.  The flagstone tessellation design is basically a series of several different molecules combined.  There's the center point, which is a classic six triangle rotation.  There's also the triangle/rhombus combo larger triangles.  And lastly, there's a the four rhombus diamonds.  I'm not sure whether or not this is a true tessellation that can repeat the pattern. I didn't have enough space to find out. Although, I imagine it's probably be possible given a large enough grid....

  This original origami tessellation is kind of a variant of some others that I've done recently.  Alternating rhombuses and parallelograms. Kind of a disjointed weave pattern.  Using the light green paper along with the nature of the design, made me think of lattice top apple pie.  It's one of your less difficult flagstone tessellations . I find that linear ones are easier to execute than the circular/hexagonal kind.  It's still a fair amount of work, but the paper yields to the structure pretty readily.  Crease pattern to come in the near future.  Filed under: February 2026 Origami Tessellations

 This is the tessellation that I mentioned in my previous post. I came up with it after having solved Madonna Yoder's Swirling Dancers tessellation .  I used her center point and just created something else from there. Something a little more flagstone style. It's fun how one idea can lead to another.   It's definitely worth exploring other possible configurations that might be discovered from her twisting trapezoids starting point. I'm certain there is much more to be found.  I have a crease pattern for this one. Will upload it soon.  Update: crease pattern added. Update to the update: realized I added the wrong picture. Correct crease pattern is below.  Filed under: February 2026 Origami Tessellations

 It's been a really long time since last I solved someone else's origami tessellation . I've just been working all the ideas of my own that I've been having.  Still...just for fun, I decided to reverse engineer one by Madonna Yoder (gatheringfolds) just to see if I still had the skills.  I just picked the first one I found on her instagram feed. It looked pretty cool. She called it 'Swirling Dancers'.  Mapping it out on some grid paper revealed most of the structure. A little testing filled in the blanks.  I will upload my diagram in the next day or two. Although, I encourage anyone interested to give a go at sussing it out themselves. It's both fun and satisfying.  I really like her center configuration of trapezoids connecting to each other. So much so, that I actually used that center point to create a different tessellation that I folded the following day. I'll post that sometimes soon.  Update: added diagram.  Filed under: January 2026 Or...

 This is a tessellation that I had been considering for a while and thought that it would be too much work to actually do it.  I looked at my diagram and just thought it would be too hard.  Eventually, I worked up the nerve to try it and as it turns out, it wasn't nearly as difficult as I thought it would be.  As with any flagstone tessellation it was 90% preparation and only 10% actual folding. There are lots and lots of creases to create before you go about getting the paper to fall into place.  Some very advanced folders don't pre-crease, but I just find it makes the whole process frustration-free. All the papers that I've used, which admittedly aren't that many different kinds, out and out refuse to do anything meaningful without pre-creasing.  It's a pretty straightforward pattern to figure out. Rhombuses with triangles touching all four sides.  My crease pattern to fold this tessellation is included below. I didn't draw the back side triangles...