chinese papercuts
I was cleaning and reorganizing my studio this morning when I stumbled across a package of papercuts that I bought in China in 1994. It was the very last set of many that I brought back home where I gave most away as gifts or used in making handmade cards. I thought I’d given them all away. What a wonderful surprise! I just had to share some with you (the images, that is). Aren’t they amazing? They’re hand-painted with dye and cut from very thin tissue paper. Enjoy!
The Chinese character above (and in the others too) means “double happiness” and is most often used for weddings. The phoenix is featured prominently in Chinese mythology.
This papercut has a lotus plant.
The dragon and phoenix are often used together to wish a happy marriage.
Laura….these are beautiful. I love, love, love the colors.
Really nice! And I love the spools of thread quilt in your title bar. Did you make that?
These are beautiful.
And I love the colors !!!
Kind Regards.
Sonnja
Cool! I love to paper cut snowflakes, so this fits right in.
Will you use them in a project somehow?
Thanks Cheri,
Yes, I did make the spools of thread quilt. Check out the back side of that quilt in my blog archives for February 2007 (Penny for a spool of thread)
Hi Deb,
I’ll probably use them in a scrapbooking layout someday. Right now I’m just so tickled to see them they’re going to stay on my bulletin board for awhile so I can just enjoy the eye candy.