Real Materials

This section shows some tessellations using actual materials such as wood, resin, textiles, ceramics, etc. If you have made a tessellation like this we would love to hear from you! Please send us a photo. We'll post it on this website, in this gallery. We will give you credit and you retain full rights. Click below to see the individual projects.

• 'My Cats' - carved and painted on wooden ball - David
• 'Raiding the Wine Cellar' - wall hanging by Lesley Hendricks
• 'Woodpeckers' - carved on resin ball - David
• 'Snuffles' - Yorkshire Terrier painted on hard rubber ball - David
• 'Fish' - modelled in polymer clay - Seth
• 'Devil Ducks' - plaster ducks by R.S. Newell
• Lego tessellations by Rev. Brendan Powell Smith
• Woodcarving by Phil Allin, based on Escher's "Sky and Water I"
• Wall-hanging in redwood by Phil Allin, based on a portion of Escher's 'Metamorphose II'
• Bas-relief woodcarving by Phil Allin, based on Escher's 'Symmetry Drawing C'
• 'Sea and Sky' - Flat pierced bas-relief woodcarving by Seth
• '28 Birds', a basswood bas-relief piece by Phil Allin based on Escher's "Sun and Moon"
• 'Innovative town planning' by Mazlin Ghazali
• 'Turtles' - 9 3/4" CLAY PLATE by Laurel Bender
• 'Clown Ball' - drawn on cardboard 12-sided sphere made of pentagons
• 'Kitchen floor ceramic tile tessellation' - handmade tiles, handmade molds. Amazing job based on the "Penrose Tiling" pattern. By Billings, Montana's Susan, Dick, and Jim.
• 'Five Cats, a Dodecahedron' - An easy-to-make 12-sided 3D paper project.