Video tutorial on cutting window grilles

Materials/tools needed for cutting window grilles: square colored paper, scissors, colored paper and pencils are placed in disorder.

Step 1: First, take out a square piece of colored paper and fold it diagonally.

Step 2: Fold the folded colored paper diagonally again.

Step 3, after diagonal folding, fold both sides of the colored paper in the direction of the center line.

Step four, draw a pattern on it with a pencil after folding.

Fifth, draw posture training several times to keep the posture training patterns clearly visible.

Step six, take scissors and cut off excess colored paper along the drawn pattern.

Step 7, unfold the cut colored paper to get the window grilles.

Window grilles:

Window grilles are paper-cut pasted on window paper or window glass, which is one of the ancient traditional folk arts in China. It has a long history and unique style, and is deeply loved by people at home and abroad.

Window grillage is the only characteristic art of farming culture. The geographical environment of rural life, the characteristics of agricultural production and social customs also make this kind of local art have distinctive China folk taste and artistic characteristics.

In the past, whether in the north or the south, stick grilles was always visited during the Spring Festival. Nowadays, it is only posted when you get married in the south. The theme of window grilles is very wide and there are a lot of opera stories. Window grilles are more common in the north.

The ancient farming society in China fundamentally determined the content and form of folk paper-cutting, which was naive, simple, rough, bold, simple, chaotic, clean, flexible, natural and interesting, and fully demonstrated its special artistic charm.