Papercutting, as the name suggests, is a time-honored art of cutting paper into beautiful shapes. This age-old craft has been ...

Chinese paper cutting, or jianzhi, is a folk art which uses scissors or knives to cut paper for festive decoration or other folk activities. Traditionally, most paper-cutting was conducted by women.

"Scissors and knives have played a significant role to vent my emotions. You can write down or draw anything unhappy or sad, ...

He was returning to the US after a brief visit home when his American dream was abruptly cut short ... they questioned him about his ties to the Chinese Communist Party and meetings with friends ...

Unlike previous prediction tools that were trained using transcribed gRNAs and were therefore prone to transcription biases, the new approach focuses on chemically synthesized gRNAs, which are ...

Rock, Paper, Scissors (RPS) is a very simple game. So simple, in fact, it’s almost dull! However, it may be more interesting than you realise. We all think we know how to play the game “correctly”, ...

A general movement to rebuild inventories of the raw material and the success of Chinese paper companies in applying adjustments, with a recovery in margins, explain the recent stronger demand ...

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I have recently completed conservation of a large collection of botanical watercolours that were on a variety of supports including paper, vellum and a very fragile Chinese paper. The Ann Lee ...

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