Hongchuan Wang, a college professor from China and artist in the traditional folk art of paper-cutting, will visit UND for a week, presenting free workshops for children and adults and exhibiting her ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paper-cutting artist Nancy Shelly works with a No. 11 X-Acto knife, and sometimes she needs to attach a new blade to fashion exquisitely intricate details in a picture after the blade’s tip breaks off ...

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 ...

When Dottie and Herb Netherton, a textile executive, moved to Greensboro in 1982, Dottie ended her teaching career to become a full-time homemaker. She tried a variety of arts and crafts, but soon ...

Located in the northeast frontier of Shanxi Province, Guangling county in Datong city covers an area of 1,283 square kilometers. It is in this small town that China's world-famous paper-cuttings ...

A new, cutting-edge concept for solar panels started with two tools: paper and scissors. Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, researchers at the University of Michigan have created a lattice-like ...

A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal engineers designed parachutes based on kirigami—cutting paper into ...