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  2. Papel picado - Wikipedia

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    Papel picado is considered a Mexican folk art. The designs are commonly cut from as many as 40-50 colored tissue papers stacked together and using a guide or template, a small mallet, and chisels, creating as many as fifty banners at a time. [2] Papel picado can also be made by folding tissue paper and using small, sharp scissors.

  3. Shear strength - Wikipedia

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    When a paper is cut with scissors, the paper fails in shear. In structural and mechanical engineering, the shear strength of a component is important for designing the dimensions and materials to be used for the manufacture or construction of the component (e.g. beams, plates, or bolts).

  4. Snips - Wikipedia

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    Right cutting and left-cutting compound-action snips, respectively; the green snips are an offset-pattern Straight-cutting compound-action snips. Compound-action snips, also known as aviation snips, maille snips or sheet snips, are the most popular type of snips as they are able to exert a higher force compared to other types of snip of the same size, because of the design of their linkage.

  5. Cutting - Wikipedia

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    Different types of scissors – sewing (left), paper (middle), kitchen (right) A glass cutter, showing hardened steel cutting wheel (far left), notches for snapping, and ball (on end of handle) for tapping. Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force.

  6. Paper cutter - Wikipedia

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    Paper cutters were developed and patented in 1844 by French inventor Guillaume Massiquot. Later, Milton Bradley patented his own version of the paper cutter in 1879. [1] Since the middle of the 19th century, considerable improvements to the paper cutter have been made by Fomm and Krause of Germany, Furnival in England, and Oswego and Seybold in the United States.

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  8. Papercutting - Wikipedia

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    Papercutting or paper cutting is the art of paper designs. Art has evolved all over the world to adapt to different cultural styles. One traditional distinction most styles share is that the designs are cut from a single sheet of paper as opposed to multiple adjoining sheets as in collage.

  9. Pruning shears - Wikipedia

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    This reduces the cutting force needed to make a cut still further. Because they crush the stem they are cutting, anvil pruners are best for use on dead wood. [2] Bypass pruners usually work exactly like a pair of scissors, with two blades "passing by" each other to make the cut. At least one of the blades will be curved: a convex upper blade ...