1976 First edition, 1st printing. Book is in good shape with some wear to cover. Former owners name and inscription inside front cover. No markings to text. Ships in a box.
The Paper Cut-Out Design Book
A sourcebook for creating and adapting the heritage of American Folk Art, Polish Wycinanki, Chinese Hur Yang, Japanese Kirigami, German Scherenschnitte and others
by Ramona Jablonski
The Paper Cut-Out Design Book fills a void in the field of craft books available today. By taking designs of the "old countries," particularly Poland, Germany and the Far East, and explaining how they are created, it inspires the necessary confidence to produce the same or similar results. For there are, as you will soon note, endless variations on the traditional themes, making the creation of each new paper-cut design a highly individual expression of its creator.
Accompanying the history of the art and the wealth of designs themselves, many in full color, are clear step-by-step instructions, so that even beginners should have no difficulty in achieving delightful hand-crafted work. As the author points out, there are endless ways to display and utilize paper-cut
designs: framed art, whole wall murals, designs to be lacquered on boxes, chests, and furniture, stencil patterns for floors and needlework designs, and delightful and original Christmas tree ornaments. Best of all, paper-cutting uses only the most basic and available materials to achieve these effects-paper, scissors and paste without the eye-strain which so often accompanies needle- work and similar craft pursuits.
Certainly the book will arouse new interest in a relatively unknown part of the ethnic cultural heritage of America, and will inspire a new direction for modern practitioners, from young children to the older persons who so often have been the keepers of the heritage of craftwork.
As both a work book and a sourcebook of great paper-cut designs of the past and present, it is sure to have great value to all those interested in creating beauty with their hands, as well as to students of the ethnic cultural heritage of America