Constance Andrews is a living reminder that age is a state of mind. The 98-year-old former Eldred Township teacher practices the art of Scherenschnitte, also known as paper cutting. But that falls far ...

There was little doubt Chen Sijia would be anything other than an artist. She comes from a family of artists, who make traditional Chinese calligraphies and paper-cuts. Chen now resides in the United ...

The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...

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 ...

Have you ever cut out paper snowflakes? You probably didn't use a big, clunky pair of sheep shears to do it, did you? Historically, the people of Poland have cut wycinanki (pronounced vee-chee-NAN-kee ...

Editor's note: Chinese paper-cut is an ancient folk art form that involves cutting intricate patterns and images from paper. This technique, deeply rooted in Chinese cultural traditions, is not only ...

As dawn breaks over a village in suburban Beijing, 75-year-old Hao Lanying sits at her desk, scissors in hand, cutting red paper into the shape of a snake winding around a bird. The design is part of ...

Borrowing from the Japanese paper-cutting art of kirigami, researchers have made specially cut tape that is 10 times as sticky as uncut tape but is also easy to pull free and reuse (ACS Appl. Mater.

Henri Matisse, The Horse, the Rider, and the Clown 1943-4. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Jean-Claude Planchet © Succession Henri Matisse ...