Constance Andrews is a living reminder that age is a state of mind. The 98-year-old former Eldred Township teacher practices the art of Scherenschnitte, also known as paper cutting. But that falls far ...

Remember the magic of making your first snowflake? You folded a piece of white paper, then cut small notches or half circles in just the right places. When at last you unfolded it, you were thrilled ...

The Kovels were surprised French’s paper cutting art was at auction, when artwork from the 1800s is more popular. Scherenschnitte is a paper cutting art form. It was known to the ancient Chinese and ...

Scherenschnitte is a paper cutting art form. It was known to the ancient Chinese and others, and it became popular again in the early 1800s, especially in the Pennsylvania area. A group of the ...

When Dottie and Herb Netherton, a textile executive, moved to Greensboro in 1982, Dottie ended her teaching career to become a full-time homemaker. She tried a variety of arts and crafts, but soon ...

Kathleen Homer, a Washington State native, moved to Lancaster County about 15 years ago to be closer to her sister, Martha. Here, she fell in love with scherenschnitte, a Pennsylvania German art of ...

Until I stopped by the Green Briar Nature Center in East Sandwich Saturday, I might have thought "scherenschnitte" meant a German pastry or sausage. It turns out scherenschnitte means "scissor cuts" ...

DAVENPORT, IOWA (June 25, 2009) A Scherenschnitte (art of paper cutting) Workshop will be offered at the German American Heritage Center on Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 2 pm. Scherenschnitte is the ...