papel picado

Posted August 24th, 2009 by jmivaldi and filed in Uncategorized

Papel picado is the Mexican art of papercutting into elaborate designs. The designs are commonly cut from tissue paper using a guide and small chisels, creating as many as forty banners at a time. This exceptional artist has a really cool portfolio of papel picado, check it out at Cut-it-out.

Papel Picado

Image Credits: Cut-it-Out

One Response to “papel picado”

  1. Ivana says:

    I *adoreeee* the Mexican papercutting art. So so amazing!!!

    Hey by the way… let’s link each other, shall we? :)

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