The process of paper cutting

The process of paper cutting is as follows:

1, Preparation: prepare the tools and materials such as scissors, paper, pattern templates and so on that need to be used.

2, select the pattern: according to their own preferences or requirements, choose a favorite or need to make the pattern template.

3, draw the pattern: put the selected pattern template on the white paper, and gently draw the outline lines of the pattern with a pencil or colored pencil.

4, cutting: according to the outline lines with scissors to cut, cut off the unwanted parts, leaving the needed parts.

5, carving: use scissors to carve in the needed part in order to cut out a finer pattern.

6, sanding: sand the cut pattern to make it smoother.

7, finishing: the cut pattern to organize, eliminate excess small confetti, make it more neat and beautiful.

8, coloring: you can color the cut pattern as needed to increase the artistic effect.

Overall, paper-cutting is a handicraft that requires patience and skill, and it needs constant practice and exploration to produce more exquisite works.

History of Paper Cutting

The invention of paper was in the Western Han Dynasty BC, and the art of paper-cutting could not have appeared before that, but at that time, the people used the thin material to make handicrafts through the hollowing out of the carving technique, which was popular as early as the time when there was no paper. Has been popular, that is, to carve, skeletonization, ticking, carving, cutting techniques in the gold foil, leather, silk, and even in the leaves cut patterns.

The historical record of the cutting of Tong Feng Di described the early Western Zhou Dynasty, King Cheng of Zhou with sycamore leaves cut into a "kuai" given to his brother, sealed Ji Yu to Tang as a marquis. During the Warring States period, there is leather skeletonization, (Hubei Jiang Ling Wangshan one of the Chu tomb excavated artifacts), silver foil hollowing carved flowers (Henan Huixian solid surrounded by the village of the Warring States site of one of the excavated artifacts), are the same with the paper-cutting, the emergence of them for the formation of folk paper-cutting has laid a certain foundation.