Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, and Cosimo de Medici were among her admirers. Poets compared her art to Michelangelo’s. Seventeenth-century Dutch textile and paper cutting artist Joanna Koerten was ...

With a small pair of scissors passed down in her family through generations, artist Hua Yuexiu makes intricate cuts into paper. The cuts form small people or animals, some shaping elaborate scenes on ...

Borrowing from the Japanese paper-cutting art of kirigami, researchers have made specially cut tape that is 10 times as sticky as uncut tape but is also easy to pull free and reuse (ACS Appl. Mater.

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