Quiltagami is the art of incorporating fabric folding into one’s sewing.
It can be sewing of any kind – it doesn’t need to be a quilt!
A cell-phone cozy, a tote bag, a kleenex-box cover, a fabric brooch, Christmas tree ornaments.
My personal favorite use for quiltagami is to enhance fabric wall hangings – either abstract or depicting simple scenes.
The image at the top of this page is a detail of a fibre-quilt square that I made which incorporates quiltagami and which I have hanging on my wall at home. But I have not made any quiltagami pieces recently, and all the other ones I made in the past were given as gifts, so I don’t have other quiltagami photographs of my own to share. To give the reader a fuller sense of what quiltagami can look like I am therefore including some images taken from the book “Flower Origami; Fabric Flowers from Simple Shapes” by Kumiko Sudo, depicting floral scenes.
A less common, but very striking use of fabric folding is the subject of the book “Shadowfolds” by Jeffrey Rutzky and Chris K. Palmer. They show how to fold thin fabric in tesellation patterns, sewing the folds in place, and then holding the fabric up to a window so that when the light shines through, the areas where several layers are folded over one another are darker. The images below are from their book.
