Scherenschnitte: Designs and Techniques for the Traditional Craft of PapercuttingProvides instructions for making cut paper designs in the style of European folk art. |
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18th century Adolf Menzel background paper basic rules begin black paper black scherenschnitte blade border carbon paper cardboard careful chapter Chinese mythology coated colored paper copy craft knife create cut edges cut from white cutting for right-handed decorated egg drawing easier easily effect enclosed areas especially Europe exactly folding and cutting folk art glass glued hand handicraft holding the paper hole important Jewish scherenschnitte Johann Jakob Hauswirth Lace cutwork large inner areas Lark Books layers of paper left-handed people clockwise Luise Duttenhofer matting middle motifs multiple folded cutwork negative cutting origami outer edge outer lines paper cuttings paper or parchment paste piece placed Poland Polish scherenschnitte R. W. Hus Saanenland Saugy scheren scherenschnitte artists scherenschnitte paper scissors Sequence of cutting shadow sharp sheep shearing silhouettes Soft points surface technique themes thin tips unfolded white cutwork white glue white paper white side Wilhelm Müller wood stain