Hi All-
I've spent the last 12 weeks studying Tessellations by Tiles with the
amazing Madonna Yoder. Her next offering is Basic Twists Bootcamp and
those workshops will be starting up in early January.
Please visit training.gatheringfolds.com/bootcamp. This training is
specifically for folders who have struggled with tessellations or have
been too intimidated to start. It features 10 folding workshops, a
crease pattern reading masterclass at the end, a private community where
you can hang out with other students on video calls, diagrams of
everything, a paper pack with a bone folder, and much more.
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*About Madonna*
I've been folding origami for 15 years, and tessellations for the last
four years. I started solidly in the representational camp (although I
could not have told you that there were other options at the time!) with
simple animal models from the few books I could get my hands on and a
couple fold-a-day calendars. At the end of high school, I won a modular
origami book from a math competition, which set me off on a modular kick
for four years, lasting until the end of undergrad.
Finally, I switched to tessellations when two factors converged: my
final project for Eric Demaine's Geometric Folding Algorithms course was
essentially on tessellations (designing triangular and hexagonal grid
maze gadgets) and I had an internship in Israel for four months after
graduation. You can't bring back a suitcase full of modulars, but you
can put four months of tessellations in a very small box. My conversion
to tessellations was completed a year later when I started having more
design ideas than I knew what to do with and also learned the techniques
to transfer many of these same tessellation designs into fabric.
I've been running my own origami business, Gathering Folds, full-time
since early 2020. My main focus in Gathering Folds is tessellations -
whether in paper or fabric - and how best to fold, teach, photograph,
and display them. I've been diving into the depths of math and design to
bring back the nuggets of wisdom that you can apply in your own folding
- no matter what level you're at right now.
Happy folding
Mary Drews
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