"Just like painting, my obsession with paper-cutting became unstoppable," she says. Xie eventually enrolled in an art school.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of engineers in Montréal has reinvented the parachute using kirigami, the ancient art of paper cutting. (CREDIT: Frédérick ...

Yang Zhihong (R) shows her papercut works at a market in Jianping County of Chaoyang City, northeast China's Liaoning ...

She tries to cut most of her work by hand, and some pieces take up to a week. She also designed a shirt for a pro sports team.

Carolyn Guest can draw with scissors. The St. Johnsbury resident is one of only a handful of folk artists in Vermont devoted to the art of paper cutting. What began as a way to pass time as a child ...