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Flower Basket
65
Fan Dance
71
Rose
72 74 78 84 89
Phoenix Phoenix Playing with Peony God of Longevity Successive Years of Plenty Santa Claus Merry Christmas
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Tools and Materials
7
Scissor Cutting
10
Gutting Combined with Scissor Cutting
60
Greate Your Own Designs from Real Life
106
Iiools and Materials Suppliers
112
Frog Fish
Plum Blossoms Bamboo Double Happiness Double Happiness in the Loving Heart Quadruple Butterfly Quadruple Peony Dragons
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Introduction
Little House Small Flower Butterfly
90 94 95
100 102 101
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Pandas
Kong Fu Panda
Tripitaka and His Three Protectors Chinese Character "fu" Another Successive Years of Plenty Official Lord Bridal Sedan
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AMID PAPERCUTTIN6 ohina's most aneient art forms, has taken root and spread far and w ortrri."채"t that my father became an outstanrri would often see my father *o"toirrf frurd at his delirrr a desk lamp. I was so curious ttrat I would pi.k;i; ; the floor, hold and look closely at them in the light, rrr ercutting works. At last I took up a pair of scisso"s ,rr
was through the influenc" -
H"r-u' -v +ov* 9f artisan, "u.llfll.X**"0"-atting tttrtst in chinese papereutting of what r have
xalect seissors, either large- or or small-sized, depending on how you holding the scissors. Standard size Sltl best for large paper cuttings, small irc good for delicate precision cuts. of scissors, such as craft scissors
and sewing scissors, can also be used, as lt as they are sharp and frt for you to cut ear and precisely through several layers of paper sheath may be recommendable for the selec scissors to protect the blades and keep th sharp and safe.
and tells foreign fri.rrr expe"i".rouJ urra learned. r h'; rrk will learn to make papercuttings with chinese foreign fravor and use ,r.r thcir life in China or in their o채.oorrr"y. en -A,rla theyhave learned t,,,1 rrl'x tltlscribed in this book, I also hone ,"",1o"o rrriil h^ .l.r^ *^ ^__. ut t_nelr their o!\ill .u,
the simph,nl on, who llirVl
you have to put your heart and soul
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sic skills and techniques of Chincsl piration. Innovation and imaginatiorr
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g'ncrally used in traditional chinese papercutting include speciaily_made kni, rllly tough point and wax pans made from powder and beef oil or wax and rubl ori it is now inadvisable to use them, since they are rarely available at the market a I make' What we now recommend are easily available splcial-purpose craft cutters t,ools
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mats.
rt is convenient to use them änd replace worn-out
blades.
ruments 'rum₏nts' containing a staprer, glue, a pencil, a small oil painting bmsh, a scrapbo.k, l, a plastic mat, and other items, are useful in making pup"" Each item hrn r stapler is used to fasten the work pieces "oäirrg.. to prevent them from moving when tlrrrv
are being cut; the oil paintir brush serves as an instrumcrrt with which to apply glue or pasl,o to the back of the paper-cut Lo stick it after it is completed; cardboard is used for pastirrg the finished products on, a,rrrl the scrapbook for keeping thcrrrl
and the plastic mat is usrrrl as a cutting board on whiclr papercutting works are engravtrrl, For the plastic mat, it is betl,cr, to use one of A3 size made fi.orrr PVC as it does little damage lo the blade of the knife or cutter.
clt lnlvcr
and PVC mqt
for scissors cutting falls into two kinds: thin paper of about 50 grams per stltrtlrtl rnett , and thicker, colored paper between 80 ancl 120 gsm, used for different cutting nttttltotls urt ing different effects. Fbr example, for monolayer cutting the thicker paper is ustxl, antl fi layer and multilayer cutting the thin paper is used.
for knife cutting is generally paper of different gsm values and in a single color, The colt red is used in traditional Chinese paper cuttings to symbolize good luck and happiness. Papt gsm ratings in white, black, blue or yellow is also used in creative works. A pre-prepare and one to three (or even more) pieces of colored paper are fastened together with tl before cutting. Thus, you can get several cutting pieces at one time.
Coptlons: Poper for double-loyer multlloyer cutting l5O gsml; Poper for monoloyer scissors
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cutting or maltiloyer knife cuttlng
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Small Fr-owsn 1. Begin from the right side and cut out the stem and the first leaf. Cut out the shape ofthe flower, and 7
towards the completion of the third petal, turn inward to cut out the style shaped like a semi-circle.
2. Cut out the left side ofthe house and the fence. the position ofthe fenee in the pattern
2. Down the stem cut out the second leaf. Cut out the third leaf and complete the stem.
l. Cut out the door opening of the house, and cornlr the cutting when the scissor blades reach the line rrr by the first cut.
FISH
Fish ,in China: As fish, a homophone of "surplus" ()..r) in ()hirrcsrr, is tlf wealth; and lotus, pronounced the same as "succession" (lian), a combirra,l,iorr rr illrl lotus, meaning "successive years of surplus", is used to eqrress longing and wislr lir tt,ol,rt,tion of
1. Fold the paper in half.
I-,let
folded edge face towards the
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Start from the upper part of folded edge and cut the outlin the head.
2. Cut out the firr uttrl Lail lr.y rrrc of sa'r,rltooth I i r rcs.
3. Start from tht' edge and cut out thr'
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mouth.
4. Between the gill arrrl tlr, mouth cut out the eye slrrr1,,,t like a clescent. Thc last , rrr should meet the first crrl ( 'rrr away the portions rrâ‚Źit I llrr dotted line in thc left fisr
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lrrl orri sr,:rlr.r lrv rrrr of clorrl lirrts 'l'lrr lilll shorrkl tttr,r'l Ilrr, lilr;l rrrl 1-1.
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6. Cut out the tail firr means of sautooth lin<rs. last cut should meet tir(| cut.
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7. Cut with scissors the oul,lirrr, of
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design and other parts that cirrr lrl
SANTA CIAUS
SCTSSOTS.
Make a Santa Claus 8. Paste down the cutout onto
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by yourself r
1. Cut rlrrl, l,lro lylr;, 1ry1rl11 and ot,lrcr rLrl,tilx ,,,'u "' ol'l,lrrr 'n,u,i 2. Orrl, orrl, Ilrrr xlrrrlxr ()rrl, ll. orrl, llrrr lrrrnttl, 4. ( |rl, orrl, l,lro lrnl,, (1rrl, l,lrrr orrl,lirrt, wlllr eltl krrili, ol rr irrtit' ol' rr,llrot'r,
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Mrnnv cunls*rAs 1. "Merry Christmas" is a
corrrlritrttl'irr
s;:mmetrical and as1'rnmetrical dtlsigrrs' I main, it is symmetrical, but the worrls it pattern are asymmetrical' Thereforc wtr sl ieave the words till the final step. Start wil' lines near the folded edge. Cut the eyebrrrw
r
glove, and the designs in the boot and hat'
2. Cut the clecorations on the Christma's ltrt out the areas between Santa Claus arrtl l'lrr There are two areas to be cut out, ontt ttttty lt with scissors ancl the other has to lrtr trrtl' ' knife. Could you distinguish them now'i
I I.,I(AL PATTERN OF THE CHINE5E CHARACTER .FU" r' lr
ANOTH ER SUCCEsSIVE YENNS OF PLENTY
t 'f rr" ltltxtl
fitt'tu.ne): a pattern featuring the Chinese character fu, r,r,.lri.lr pattern is often pasted upside dor,lrr, for in chirr,,s, tilr" ("lir rlrr'0 lo") is hornophonic with "good for.tune has come,,. rt is rvid.rr rl ( llrirrlsc lirsl,ivals or on happ1. occasions. rrrrr' ;rrrrl lrirPpirrcss. The
1. Cut out the tlcsir,rr rr, ilrg first parl (in pirrli)
2. Cut out the dr:si;,rr lr rtr,, part (in pil 1,, r, , , , ,,
second
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3. Cut out thc dcsi;'r, ,,, third part (in palc r r.il,,rr
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4. Cut out thc rlcsigrr
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fourth part (in pa,k' lrl,r,
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5. Cut the circle it r.orrrl character.
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