Celebrate the New Year with handmade window grilles and paper-cut lanterns. Illustrated tutorial on how to make paper-cut lanterns.
The lantern making method gives more options to the creativity of paper-cutting. If it is a physical lantern and you want to further decorate it, it is actually quite difficult to operate. But now here we see the creative composition design using paper cutting, which can further enrich the pattern style of lanterns. In this paper-cutting pattern recommended by the paper art website, the designer specially incorporated some paper-cutting styles of flowers and plants into the lantern pattern configuration. That is, we can see some peony flower patterns on the upper part of the lantern. Peonies are in traditional In folk culture, it represents auspiciousness and wealth, so it is very suitable to be used in festivals such as the Spring Festival.
You can see from the specific paper-cut pattern style that it is consistent with the smooth and stable feeling of the lantern. The pattern style of the paper-cut lantern window grille itself is also symmetrical. This peculiar pattern symmetry is quite helpful for our subsequent tailoring. During the specific production, the paper-cut craftsman needs to first trace the left and right symmetry according to the style of the pattern. Because the structure of paper-cut flowers, lanterns and other decorative structures have a very simple and sharp edge effect on the pattern edges, they are very suitable for cutting directly with scissors, and better results can also be obtained with a carving knife. The slightly more difficult part is cutting out some small areas in the middle of the paper-cut flower. You may need to follow the tracing pattern more faithfully during the specific cutting operation.
After turning the page, you can download the watermark-free pattern of this paper-cut lantern making method.
