The folding pattern, known as the Miura-ori, is a periodic way to tile the plane using the simplest mountain-valley fold in origami. It was used as a decorative item in clothing at least as long ago ...

Learn how to fold a simple origami bird resembling a swallow using basic folds like the shawl fold and water bomb fold. Perfect for beginners! Get a video at the bottom of the post showing all the ...

A versatile origami fold could be the key to creating just about any structure, from the nanoscale to full-scale buildings, according to new engineering research out this week. A team at Harvard says ...

Linda MacFarlane is a mother, musician and artist who is passionate about origami. Saturday she shared her passion with a gathering of families and craft-minded individuals in the Fox Room of the ...

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 ...

In 1970, an astrophysicist named Koryo Miura conceived what would become one of the most well-known and well-studied folds in origami: the Miura-ori. The pattern of creases forms a tessellation of ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...