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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was little doubt Chen Sijia would be anything other than an artist. She comes from a family of artists, who make traditional Chinese calligraphies and paper-cuts. Chen now resides in the United ...

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 ...