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Created 18/10/2023. Last updated 25/3/2026

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This page is being used to collect information about the history of the paperfolding design I call the Zigzag Corrugation. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

The classic version of this design consist of a series of parallelograms whose acute angle is 45 degrees. Versions with other angles are possible.

In more modern times corrugations of this type are commonly known as Miura-ori, although this usage should be discouraged for the classic version.

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1887

An illustration showing a version of this design appears in 'Lehrbuch der Darstellenden Geometrie (Part 2)' by Christian Wiener was published by B G Teubner in Leipzig in 1887.

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1927/8

This image from 'Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago' by Hans M. Wingler, MIT Press, 1969 and 1978, shows several Zigzag Corrugations among other folded objects produced by Josef Alber's students at the Bauhaus during the years 1927/8.

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1946

This photo is said to show Josef Albers and students at Black Mountain College with a Zigzag Corrugation in 1946.

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