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A design cut, not drawn.
Also known as: Chinese paper cutting
The Chinese decorative tradition of designs cut from folded red paper.
Is cut from paper and pasted to windows and doors at festivals in Chinese domestic practice.
Contexts: History, Public information
Constrained by its medium: every part must stay attached to every other or it falls out, so the design is a connectivity problem and the characteristic lattice of small bridges is the solution rather than a style.
Contexts: History, Public information
Folding produces the symmetry, so the number of folds determines the symmetry order before the cutting begins.
Contexts: History, Public information
A figure cut from a folded sheet so that the result is symmetrical, its shapes joined by a lattice of narrow bridges so that no piece falls free.