Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of engineers in Montréal has reinvented the parachute using kirigami, the ancient art of paper cutting. (CREDIT: Frédérick ...

On Sunday, Feb. 11, the Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University held a Chinese Paper-Cutting Workshop with Master Ming Liang Lu. “Cutting Through Culture: Chinese Paper-Cutting Workshop” was ...

In the late 1980s, local activists were scrambling to protect Sutton House, a 500-year-old Tudor manor house in Hackney, East London. Amid the restoration efforts, workers salvaged hundreds of pieces ...

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 ...

Paper cutting is an art form that possibly dates back to the invention of paper itself in China around 2,000 years ago. Since then, many cultures have developed their own unique styles. Special ...

Carolyn Guest can draw with scissors. The St. Johnsbury resident is one of only a handful of folk artists in Vermont devoted to the art of paper cutting. What began as a way to pass time as a child ...

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XOCHIMILCO, Mexico — Mexican artisans are struggling to preserve the traditional manufacture of paper cut-out decorations long used in altars for the Day of the Dead. Defying increasingly popular mass ...

Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, a 5 m long sandstone slab located in the middle of the Neolithic monument, continues to evade easy answers about its origins. The latest scientific evidence points toward ...