Madonna Yoder

Madonna started making her own tessellation patterns in 2018 after taking a Geometric Folding Algorithms class during her final semester at MIT and presenting her class project at the 7th international conference on origami in science, mathematics, and education (7OSME). After making some smocked pieces for the Museum of Mathematics in NYC for their Math Unfolded exhibit, Madonna decided to go into business bringing these origami and smocking patterns to a wider audience.

Now she focuses on teaching twist-based tessellations online through Gathering Folds so that aspiring tessellation folders can build the skills to fold and design tessellations of their own.