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 ...

The suitability of the Miura-ori for engineering deployable or foldable structures is due to its high degree of symmetry embodied in its periodicity, and four important geometric properties: it can be ...

What if you could make any object out of a flat sheet of paper? That future is on the horizon thanks to new research. A team of researchers have characterized a fundamental origami fold, or ...

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., ...

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 ...