Date and time
Sunday, December 1, 2024, 12:00 am EST to Wednesday, December 25, 2024, 11:45 pm EST
Location
Online
Sponsored by OrigamiUSA
No
Online
Yes
Convention
No
Exhibition or includes an exhibition
No
Fee required
No
Description

Origami tessellations are different from most other types of origami because they can repeat infinitely, and so there’s no fixed amount of pattern that forms a model.
In Advent of Tessellations I’ll teach a series of 25 origami tessellation patterns at a small scale in video tutorials that are released daily from Dec. 1-25, progressing from easier to harder patterns over the course of the challenge.
You can sign up for the challenge for free at https://training.gatheringfolds.com/advent to get daily email reminders and crease pattern PDFs when the videos are released!
This will be my third year running this challenge, and each year has a distinct set of patterns.
The patterns this year focus on hybrid hexagon twists - a particularly fruitful source of new patterns that can create more organic-looking designs than conventional geometric tessellation patterns while remaining foldable directly from the grid.
Like the last two rounds of Advent of Tess, I have Skytone paper packs, hexagon templates, and an ebook with crease patterns of multiple possible continuations of each pattern available for purchase at https://gatheringfolds.com if you’d like to get the best tools for completing the challenge and support the effort that went into the videos.

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