Real Materials

This section shows some tessellations using actual materials such as wood, resin, textiles, etc. If you have made a tessellation like this we would love to hear from you. Please send us a picture. We will give you credit and you retain full rights. Click below to see the individual items or enter a loop of them all.

• 'My Cats' - carved 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"