It is understood that window grilles are paper-cut pasted on window paper or window glass. In the past, they were all in stick grilles during the Spring Festival, regardless of the north or the south. At present, it is only posted when people get married in the south, but it is generally not posted during the Spring Festival, while it is still popular in stick grilles in the north.
manual course of paper-cut window grilles
1. Prepare a piece of red paper, preferably double-sided red (in order to demonstrate the folding effect, Xiaobian deliberately found a single-sided red paper), about 2 cm square.
2. Fold the red paper in half along the diagonal once, and be sure to flatten it.
3. Because this paper-cut should be folded in multiple layers, each layer should be pressed as firmly as possible.
4. Fold the folded paper in half along the center line so that the two 45-degree angles overlap.
5. Fold the paper folded twice along the center line and continue to overlap the two 45-degree angles.
6. Folding in half again is different from the last two times. This time, one of the 45-degree angles (note that it is the side that is connected together, not the side that is scattered for several pages) is folded in half. This time, the other side is not aligned.
7. Draw a pattern on the shorter side, as shown in the figure.
8. along the underlined part, cut off all the shaded parts with scissors.
9. Be careful to cut slowly, it will be easy to break if you are not careful.
1. Also pay attention to using sharper scissors, because the paper is folded 16 times, which is relatively thick.
11. After cutting, spread all the red paper.
use forms
From the specific use, it can be roughly divided into four categories:
First, it is used for posting, that is, it is directly posted on doors and windows, walls, lanterns and colored ribbons for decoration. Such as window flowers, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, cigarette lattices, lantern flowers, paper-tied flowers and doornotes;
second, for decoration, that is, for decorating gifts, dowries, sacrifices and offerings. Such as flowers, flowers, fireworks, candlestick flowers, fragrant flowers, Chongyang flag;
third, embroidery patterns are used for clothing, shoes, hats and pillows. Such as shoe flower, pillow flower, hat flower, bib flower, sleeve flower and suspender flower;
Fourth, printing and dyeing, that is, as a printing plate for blue printed cloth, used for clothing materials, quilts, curtains, bags, bibs, headscarves, etc.
Paper-cut mounting style
Frame-type
Frame-type Shoudai Bird Paper-cut
Generally, photos and pictures can be sold in the market. When installing paper-cuts, it is necessary to stick a small amount of white latex around the paper-cuts on the supporting paper, otherwise, after the frames are hung up, the paper-cuts will often fall down or move, which seems to be uneven.
The color selection of paper support mainly depends on the color of paper-cutting, which plays a role in setting off paper-cutting. For example, when paper-cutting is heavy color, the backing paper should be light color, and when paper-cutting is light color or white, the backing color should be heavy color.
paper layout
paper plate mounting can be divided into plane mounting and vertical mounting. In plane mounting, all the transparent latex used for paper cutting can be adhered to the pre-designed paper plate.
Three-dimensional mounting is to divide the paper plate into two layers, with paper cuts fixed with transparent sheets in the middle, and then stick the surface with transparent sheets or cellophane. This mounting gives people a sense of three-dimensional space.
scroll
scroll is a form of mounting Chinese paintings. It is solemn, generous, hung in the room with great boldness of vision and oriental artistic characteristics, and it is naturally superior for mounting paper-cuts. If you ask the calligrapher to inscribe words and stamp on the mounted scroll, it will be completely comparable to the same painting of China's axis. The mounting scroll is more expensive than the frame, and the mounting technology is more difficult, but the artistic effect is quite good.
Glue pressing
With the development of modern industry, there are more and more transparent chemical materials, such as transparent resin glue, a little coagulant is added, the paper-cut is laid flat on the glass, the prepared glue is poured on the paper-cut, and then the cellophane stretched by a wooden frame is laid flat on the glue, then it is flattened with a rubber roller and dried under the light of 4 degrees. This method is very beautiful and can be preserved forever, but the technology is complicated. If the temperature is not well controlled during prayer, the cellophane will easily be baked and failed. This mounting effect is similar to that of photo gluing.