Learn Advanced Tessellation Design Techniques
Discover what's on the frontier of origami tessellation design and gain the tools, ideas, and skills to make original patterns of your own.
Prolific tessellation designers aren’t getting lucky fiddling with the paper - they’re systematic thinkers that are putting together different options into structures they know will work.
Advanced Twist Techniques is all about sharing the latest twists and design ideas with you so that you can understand the latest patterns and design your own tessellations too.
Playing around with new twists and new structures is how the most prolific tessellation designers find new patterns - and we will never find all of them.
- Learn the deeper structure behind families of twists
- Learn how to modify twists with hybrid and mixed-depth pleat options
- Learn how to plug twists into broader structures to create new patterns
- Learn to apply symmetry points in multiple ways to the same structure to create even more pattern options
- Learn to create new structures and develop your own design style
What you’ll get with Advanced Twist Techniques:
- Recordings of the previous three sessions of ATT with ~17 hours of video that's never been posted anywhere else
- Three weekly live lectures exploring symmetry applications on tilings, tiling design, and pattern modification methods starting June 25, 2025
- Recordings of all lectures from the current session
- An updated toolbox of twists you can use for your own patterns
- Over 100 crease patterns of example tessellations with photos and grid rotation recommendations included
- Private Discord channels for ongoing discussion and support
- Access to all future ATT events
What’s the schedule?
Advanced Twist Techniques 2025 is live on Zoom on June 25, July 2, and July 9 (Wednesdays) at noon NY time. Can’t make it then? The recordings will be posted promptly afterwards.
Here’s the itinerary:
- June 25: Infinite Symmetry Extensions and Origami Tessellation Design
- July 2: Generate Your Own Tilings for Unique Design Styles
- July 9: Pattern Modifications by Shifting Pleats
Will we be folding during ATT? What grids should I bring?
Since ATT is in a lecture format, you do not need to bring any grids.
However, there will be many examples of individual twists and design techniques that you will want to fold from the recordings (both past and upcoming), so stockpiling a few 16-fold grids of each grid type is recommended.
I’m not sure I’m ready for advanced stuff - is this for me?
Whether you’ve worked through my Summer of Twists series and are looking for more options to use or you’re just getting started it’s never a bad time to see what else is out there.
When I started designing tessellations I thought that in order to make new designs I had to make hard designs, but that’s just not true! Now I know that I can put easy pieces together in new ways and that makes new patterns too.
Advanced Twist Techniques does teach the hard stuff, but it also shows some easy ways to create many more patterns with just the simple twists.
What if I can’t fold from crease patterns?
While Advanced Twist Techniques is not focused on teaching how to fold from crease patterns, my recent YouTube series on advanced techniques has folding demonstrations of many of the twists and techniques taught inside of ATT.
Basic Twists Bootcamp and Tessellation Starter Sequence are my courses most geared towards learning to read crease patterns and many of my students have experienced huge improvements in their ability to fold from crease patterns by taking those courses.
Tessellation Academy is a good intermediate-level option for both learning to read crease patterns and learning to design tessellations (those skills are surprisingly similar).
Advanced Twist Techniques is also included in all course bundles.
How do I join?
There are two options for how to join Advanced Twist Techniques this year: as a viewer or with full access.
Viewers can join the live lectures for free and ask questions, but they don't get any recordings or crease patterns.
Joining with full access (on sale for $40 until July 10, then back to $57) gets you recordings of past ATT sessions, all past crease patterns, recordings of the current lectures, 30 new crease patterns, and access to the ATT channels on my Discord server.
Join as a Viewer
Join with Full Access
- Access all lectures and recordings
- Get over 100 crease patterns
- Join the ATT channels on Discord
- Join future sessions for free
Are there refunds?
No. Since you get immediate access to previous recordings and many crease patterns I do not offer refunds for Advanced Twist Techniques. If you’d like a sample of my teaching style before you join ATT, check out my videos on advanced techniques on YouTube.
If you’re unsure whether ATT is right for you, please email me at [email protected] and I’ll get back to you right away. I want you to have a good experience with origami tessellations and I definitely don’t want you to get overwhelmed by going too deep too fast.
About Madonna Yoder
Madonna helps aspiring tessellation folders to deeply understand tessellations so they can fold from crease patterns, reverse engineer from photos, and even start designing their own tessellations. Unlike most origami instructors, she doesn't focus on individual designs but focuses on broader structures, theory, and skills instead so her students can start folding new designs with confidence and get the most out of any tessellation workshop they attend. Madonna is the animating force behind Gathering Folds, where she offers a range of paid courses on tessellations and a variety of free tessellation instruction and information on YouTube and Instagram.
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