Sure, a single stem tucked in a bud vase looks pretty alongside breakfast in bed, but why not go big this Mother's Day, with long-lasting, giant paper blossoms that can brighten up an entire room?

Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The columbine is a flower that Livia Cetti has yet to master. The artist has been making paper flowers from her basement in ...

PYEONGTAEK, Gyeonggi Province — Venerable Sukyong seems every bit a solemn Buddhist monk when he beats the drum and sounds the “moktak,” a wooden percussion instrument. But when he grabs a piece of ...

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Liu Ren: What I have done is only a rough idea of what I’m going to cut out. Then I ’m going to cut it out with my scissors. Folk paper-cutting is a Chinese art form. It’s just like traditional ...

As soon as the Chinese invented paper in 100 B.C., they began fashioning it into lanterns, fans, and, of course, flowers. The flowers would be placed in buoyant containers and then floated in water as ...

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 ...

Ji Yulan, an inheritor of the intangible heritage paper-cutting from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn] With a pair of scissors in her right hand and red ...

Paper and scissors are the basics of Susan Urban’s craft. “I have about 20 pairs of scissors in different sizes,” the West Springfield artist says. “When you’re using scissors on paper, they get dull ...

Chinese paper cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut patterns out of paper, which are then used as decorations. The images used in this art form are full of rich ...

Fu Zhao'e shows her paper cutting work themed the Year of the Snake in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Jan. 7, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Hai) As the Chinese Year of the Snake ...

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