Corte de papel
剪纸

Paper-cut, also known as papercutting, paper-cut for window decoration or cut-out, is the traditional Chinese folk art, and is the best handicrafts to convey Chinese characteristics. With a pair of scissors and several pieces of colored paper, we can cut out figures of different gestures, flowers and plants full of vitality, lively birds and buildings of various shapes. Paper-cut can be further divided into monochrome paper-cut and compound-color paper-cut. The tools and materials for paper-cut are very simple, and it's easy to learn the methods and all the steps. It's an art form which is very popular among Chinese people. This course will show you such folding and cutting methods as triangular, quadrangle, hexangular, side-to-side, continuous and parallel, single silhouette, etc.