Ji Yulan, an inheritor of the intangible heritage paper-cutting from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn] With a pair of scissors in her right hand and red ...

In 2009, The Chinese paper-cut was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the UNESCO. Chinese papercuts are rich in content. The auspicious designs ...

Long time ago, glassware was very expensive. Instead, people would paste a kind of Korean paper to their window frames. When the New Year came, people would paste once again to give it a new look. But ...

When you hold the invitation to the reopening of the Lumen United Reformed Church up to the window, light shines through the tiny holes pierced through the card. Consultancy Multistorey used ...

Working under a dim light at a drafting table near the furnace in his basement, Scott Kloska gets lost in his art for hours, cutting tiny geometric shapes out of paper with a No. 11 craft blade. "I ...

Li Yunxia deftly snips away at a piece of folded red paper using small scissors with very sharp blades. Soon, a dog’s head emerges. The canine has a plum blossom design on it and even carries a gold ...

Ye Kaiyuan creates paper-cutting artworks balancing the ancient art form and contemporary life (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) Using a pencil, a pair of scissors and a scalpel, Ye Kaiyuan turns a piece of ...

LITTLE ROCK — The handicraft of paper cutting is believed to have originated in China, where paper was invented. Paper-cut designs have been discovered there that date back 1,000 years. Paper cutting ...

Paper and scissors are the basics of Susan Urban’s craft. “I have about 20 pairs of scissors in different sizes,” the West Springfield artist says. “When you’re using scissors on paper, they get dull ...

Some paper cuts are painful. Some are not. I've had both kinds, but I much prefer the latter. Most of us have been involved in paper cutting by folding pages and snipping snowflakes during elementary ...