The Year of the Horse is here, everyone should succeed immediately! During the New Year, every household has couplets on the door and walls, and window grilles on the windows. The editor here will teach you how to make New Years handmade paper-cut window grilles for the Year of the Horse.
Although Year of the Horse paper-cutting is also a part of traditional paper-cutting, more often, the production of Year of the Horse paper-cutting is applied to window grilles. Because when the traditional Lunar New Year comes, almost every household has the custom of pasting window grilles on the windows to create a festive atmosphere. When designing and making window grilles, you should fully consider the needs of the festival. For example, this Lunar New Year is the Year of the Horse that everyone is very familiar with, so our paper-cut window grille design should be horse-related patterns. If there is only a paper-cut horse, the final effect will definitely not be enough. Some other decorative contents should be added based on the needs of a special time like the festival.
Think of window grilles as paper-cuts, so the commonly used elements of the character "福" in window grilles paper-cuts also need to be integrated with paper-cut production and design. In this paper-cut pattern for the Year of the Horse, we can not only see the configuration of the paper-cut horse, but also a paper-cut yang, which is integrated with a paper-cut blessing character between the sheep and the horse. At the same time, there are also other structures on the corresponding side. You can see a paper-cut peony pattern. Peony often symbolizes good luck and harmony in all things in traditional Chinese culture. Therefore, if it is cleverly combined with the paper-cut horse, paper-cut sheep and paper-cut blessing characters, the overall effect is quite good. After rearranging these elements, we see that they form a circular structure. This is more in line with the requirements and characteristics of window grille paper-cutting.
1. Preparations for paper-cut window grilles for the Year of the Horse.
If you plan to restore the production of this Year of the Horse paper-cut window grille, the first thing you need to do is to have a deep understanding of the entire window grille pattern, especially the composition that conforms to the harmonious configuration of the Bagua It is necessary to have full knowledge and understanding, and on this basis, choose paper with better light transmittance and color as the basic material for production, to ensure that it is suitable for embellishment and decoration after the final production of window grille paper-cutting.
New Year’s Handmade: Paper-cutting Tutorial for Year of Horse Window Decoration
New Years Handmade: Year of the Horse Window Decoration Paper-cutting TutorialCheng
2. Drawing of window grilles in the Year of the Horse.
This is a classic window grill paper-cut configuration. When tracing, we can also follow the design ideas of classic window grills. For example, the circular structure of the window grilles can be roughly sketched with a pencil, and then the entire window grille pattern can be classified using line outlines to form a very good structural differentiation effect. At this time, some detailed patterns can also be outlined. The specific small patterns will be adjusted when the window grille paper-cutting is in progress.
3. Summary of paper-cutting tutorials for Year of the Horse window grilles.
The main emphasis of window grille paper-cutting is the beauty of symmetry. Although sometimes the internal configuration pattern does not seem to meet the requirements of symmetry, every small element is treated as a whole. If you look at it, the whole effect shows the symmetry required for window grilles. The Year of the Horse window decoration paper-cut seen here conforms to such a theory, so we can also operate according to this theory when cutting. First complete the block structure of the knife-cut, and then use a carving knife to present the details. So as to show the effect we need.
