https://padlet.com/xiao56/4qi67rt31iqgklz5 Chinese Paper Cutting en-us 2020-12-04 05:07:32 UTC 2024-06-03 06:45:58 UTC hello@padlet.com xiao56 https://padlet.com/xiao56/4qi67rt31iqgklz5/wish/986677772 The art of Chinese paper cutting may date back to the second century. As paper become more affordable, paper cutting became one of the most important folk art in China.

Because the cut-outs are often used to decorate doors and windows, it also referred as window-flowers which is "Chuang Hua" in Chinese. Window-flowers usually made of red paper, as red is associated with festivities and happiness in Chinese culture. It normally used for Spring Festival, child birth and weddings as a symbolize of good luck.

Needing materials 

1. Several sheets of red paper, (You can use other color paper if you don’t have one. You don’t want the paper to be too thick tho, or it will be hard to fold or cut. Normal printing paper will be fine.)
2. Pencil
3. Scissors 

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Although fewer people decide to cut their own window flowers today,  because you can always purchase them online or in the market. It is still a tradition to put on paper cuttings during the  lunar festival as decoration.]]> 2021-01-31 08:09:04 UTC https://padlet.com/xiao56/4qi67rt31iqgklz5/wish/1144845033 xiao56 https://padlet.com/xiao56/4qi67rt31iqgklz5/wish/1144853017 2021-01-31 08:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/xiao56/4qi67rt31iqgklz5/wish/1144853017 xiao56 https://padlet.com/xiao56/4qi67rt31iqgklz5/wish/1144854318 I'm doing this workshop because I want spread this traditional folk art to the world. My group members comes from different culture background, so I'm hopping to see if they could adopt this skill and emerge with their own culture. The paper cutting have beautiful, elegant appearance and fun visual element which I think may become their inspiration in the future. Also, it is near Christmas and they can use it to make some snowflakes as decoration.]]> 2021-01-31 08:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/xiao56/4qi67rt31iqgklz5/wish/1144854318 xiao56 https://padlet.com/xiao56/4qi67rt31iqgklz5/wish/1144873770 2021-01-31 08:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/xiao56/4qi67rt31iqgklz5/wish/1144873770 xiao56 https://padlet.com/xiao56/4qi67rt31iqgklz5/wish/1163634958 I was going to design a tutorial book for how to do Chinese paper cutting. However, I didn't really have a good inspiration to actually do it. I feel like the visual element and color choice are quite limited, the only thing I know is that I want the book to be square cause the papers that used to make paper cutting are always square. While I was trying cluelessly, I do figure out how to make a paper cut pattern using illustrator. So I make quite few of them which is interesting for me to see the paper cut in a digital form.]]> 2021-02-04 13:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/xiao56/4qi67rt31iqgklz5/wish/1163634958