Wonderful, Scarce c. Earlier 1900s Accordian Fold Booklet of Hand-cut Jianzhi (Chinese Cut Paper Works), c. 46 Pages mid-century portrait Photo: 10" x 7 13/16"

Photo: 10" x 7 13/16"

very heavy

"River People") and Papago (Tohono O'Odham) are renowned for coiled baskets like this one

Lobster: 2 1/2" across x 1/4" tall (standing on 3 sweet little legs)

but veering toward pure abstraction

Wonderful, Scarce c. Earlier 1900s Accordian Fold Booklet of Hand-cut Jianzhi (Chinese Cut Paper Works), c. 46 Pages mid-century portrait Photo: 10" x 7 13/16"Finding this one in an unexpected corner of a shop in southern Maine last week made me very happy. It is a small in scale accordion fold book (like a mini Froebel kindergarten album in that regard and the papers used for the paper cuts here have the exact quality the papers used for early kindergarten paper cuts and paper weavings!) It features 46 page faces of original Chinese paper cuts, called Jianzhi an ancient Chinese art form, first executed in