The first Chinese Paper Cutting Art Festival came to a close Tuesday in Yuxian County, Hebei Province, where hundreds of folk artists and recognized intangible cultural heritage inheritors of paper ...

Paper-cutting is a traditional art in China although it's becoming a rare skill. Craftsman Rao makes paper-cutting portraits at a market in Hanghzou, Zhejiang province, Aug 25. He has been creating ...

Wielding a pair of scissors, Song Baoshu is like a magician, swiftly snipping a piece of paper into a work of art. Song, 62, is a craftsman in north China's Hebei Province specializing in the Chinese ...

With a small pair of scissors passed down in her family through generations, artist Hua Yuexiu makes intricate cuts into paper. The cuts form small people or animals, some shaping elaborate scenes on ...

On Sunday, Feb. 11, the Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University held a Chinese Paper-Cutting Workshop with Master Ming Liang Lu. “Cutting Through Culture: Chinese Paper-Cutting Workshop” was ...

Alum and paper-cutting artist Bianca Levan begins with a sketch, laying out the main structures and composition of the piece, showing the negative space that she will cut away. (Courtesy) Bianca Levan ...

The 2004 Chinese Paper-cutting Art Exposition, a component of the Seventh China Arts Festival, opened on September 14 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. It is the most distinctive paper-cutting expo ever ...