She tries to cut most of her work by hand, and some pieces take up to a week. She also designed a shirt for a pro sports team ...

"I want to tell people that it's good to slow down and go back to doing things by hand," Andrea Cira said.

IntroductionIt might seem like you only need one sharp tool to cut paper, but the ease of use changes depending on the shape you want to create. The movement of your hands and where you support the ...

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Ji Yulan, an inheritor of the intangible heritage paper-cutting from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn] With a pair of scissors in her right hand and red ...

Anyone who has ever had a paper cut (read: "everyone") knows how deceptively sharp paper can be when it hits you at just the right (read: "wrong") angle. But does that mean that a disc of paper ...

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 ...

As the Chinese Year of the Snake approaches, Fu Zhao'e has been spending her days cutting and folding red paper to create snakes, numbers and other decorative designs, immersing herself in the joy of ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Using a pencil, a pair of scissors and a scalpel, Ye Kaiyuan turns a piece of ...