Paper cutting is an art form that possibly dates back to the invention of paper itself in China around 2,000 years ago. Since then, many cultures have developed their own unique styles. Special ...

In the field survey, it is known that children lack after-school learning space; villagers lack leisure exchange places; the local paper-cut artists need work and exhibition space. Therefore, two ...

A 20-second time-lapse video captures a couple of hours of work on a cut-paper piece by artist Ian Kuali’i (Native Hawaiian and Mescalero Apache). Here, Kuali’i is cutting along the sketched the ...

The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...

Last year, Lee moved from a rural area of Pittsburgh into the bustling Los Angeles metropolis. What followed was a series of overwhelming emotions and turmoil, which she tries to come to grips with in ...

Borrowing from the Japanese paper-cutting art of kirigami, researchers have made specially cut tape that is 10 times as sticky as uncut tape but is also easy to pull free and reuse (ACS Appl. Mater.

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Carolyn Guest can draw with scissors. The St. Johnsbury resident is one of only a handful of folk artists in Vermont devoted to the art of paper cutting. What began as a way to pass time as a child ...

On Sunday, Feb. 11, the Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University held a Chinese Paper-Cutting Workshop with Master Ming Liang Lu. “Cutting Through Culture: Chinese Paper-Cutting Workshop” was ...

Have you ever cut out paper snowflakes? You probably didn't use a big, clunky pair of sheep shears to do it, did you? Historically, the people of Poland have cut wycinanki (pronounced vee-chee-NAN-kee ...

The new mechanical computer uses 64 physical cubes to represent binary bits and is inspired by kirigami — the Japanese art of paper-folding and cutting. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...