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Techniques include cutting, clipping, punching, tearing, and carving of paper, as well as nalepianki in which multiple layers are glued together. Subject matter includes peacocks , roosters , and other birds; circular or star-shaped medallions ( gwiazdy ); flowers; and annual holidays such as Easter and Christmas.
The origin of Jewish paper cutting is unclear. Ashkenazi Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries practiced this type of art. However, Jewish paper cuts can be traced to Jewish communities in Syria, Iraq, and North Africa, and the similarity in the cutting techniques (using a knife) between East European Jews and Chinese paper cutters, may indicate that the origin goes back even further.
Paper-cut with stupa. One of the earliest known papercuts, this specimen was recovered by Paul Pelliot in the Dunhuang grotto and is dated to the tenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France Chinese paper cuttings (2014) Papercutting or paper cutting is the art of paper designs. Art has evolved all over the world to adapt to different ...
Initially, paper was ruled by hand, sometimes using templates. [1] Scribes could rule their paper using a "hard point," a sharp implement which left embossed lines on the paper without any ink or color, [2] or could use "metal point," an implement which left colored marks on the paper, much like a graphite pencil, though various other metals were used.
Graph paper, coordinate paper, grid paper, or squared paper is writing paper that is printed with fine lines making up a regular grid. It is available either as loose leaf paper or bound in notebooks or Graph Books. It is commonly found in mathematics and engineering education settings, exercise books, and in laboratory notebooks.
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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.
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