Posted by Lesley on May 25, 2012

The papercut that started it all for me…

“The Sparrows & the Nightingales” This was my fy first attempt at Scherenschnitte.  Wikipedia tells us that this word means “scissor cuts” in German, and it is the art of paper cutting  design. Founded in Switzerland  and Germany  in the 1500′s, it was brought to Colonial America in the 1700s by immigrants who settled primarily in Pennsylvania. For this project I chose...