Definitions
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- noun art The art of cutting continuous
paper designs. The art work often has symmetry within the design. The art tradition was founded inSwitzerland andGermany in the 1500s and was brought to Colonial America in the 1700s by immigrants who settled primarily inPennsylvania .
Etymologies
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How do you pronounce "scherenschnitte," the art of intricate paper cutting?
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How do you pronounce "scherenschnitte," the art of intricate paper cutting?
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How do you pronounce "scherenschnitte," the art of intricate paper cutting?
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How do you pronounce "scherenschnitte," the art of intricate paper cutting?
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September 18, 2008 at 6:41 am scherenschnitte is one form of paper cutting craft.
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Ursula Dunnewind of Kansas City practices the art of scherenschnitte or, paper cutting.
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Do you know anything about the history of scherenschnitte?
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Ursula Dunnewind of Kansas City practices the art of scherenschnitte or, paper cutting.
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Do you know anything about the history of scherenschnitte?
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When I was in preschool, my poetry books and readers were all illustrated with scherenschnitte, and my mother kept a calendar in the corner where she read that depicted holidays and the four seasons and so on in scherenschnitte.
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