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In the United States, the term kirigami was coined by Florence Temko from Japanese kiri, ' cut ', and kami, ' paper ', in the title of her 1962 book, Kirigami, the Creative Art of Paper cutting. The book achieved enough success that the word kirigami was accepted as the Western name for the art of paper cutting.
An open paper cut on the thumb. A paper cut occurs when a piece of paper or other thin, sharp material slices a person's skin, most often on the upper part of the index finger. Notably, "paper" cuts can also be caused by thin, stiff, and abrasive materials other than paper. Paper cuts can be highly painful, even though they may bleed very ...
Furniture or chair caning may be confused with wicker; chair caning is specifically the craft of applying rattan cane or rattan peel to a piece of furniture such as the backs or seats of chairs, whereas wicker or wicker work is a reference to the craft of weaving any number of materials such as willow or rattan reeds as well as man-made paper ...
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Several pieces of Herter Brothers furniture remain in the White House including a center table and a slipper chair. This center table bears the remains of the only known Herter Brothers paper label; generally the firm stamped their furniture, a common practice in the 19th century. Among their most prominent clients were the Vanderbilts.
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