It's an example of an origami tesselation, where one shape is repeated over and over, with no gaps, across a whole surface. In this case, the crease pattern is a tiling of parallelograms laid out so ...

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 ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.