Saturday, 19 May 2012

INTRICATE CRAFT WORK

The framed picture you see above is actually done by a very skilled paper cutter using a piece of red paper and a pair of scissors.  Awesome, isn't it?
Here is more about this traditional Chinese craft.
Chinese Paper Cutting or Jianzhi (剪纸) is the first type of papercutting design, since paper was invented by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. The art form later spread to other parts of the world with different regions adopting their own cultural styles. Because the cut outs are also used to decorate doors and windows, they are sometimes referred to "chuāng huā" (窗花), meaning Window Flower.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_paper_cutting

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