It earns the most skilful artists respect and admiration. Many techniques are used: the paper can be cut or engraved with a chisel, coloured or left blank. Increasingly, modern technologies are used.

Pu Yao uses paper-cutting techniques to create traditional hanfu dress. [Photo by Gao Wenya/For chinadaily.com.cn] "This is my first attempt at applying traditional paper-cutting techniques to ...

Before her lies an expansive garment, entirely crafted through traditional paper-cutting techniques. With her scissors in hand, Pu deftly works between the sheets, and soon, an intricately ...