Talk:Papercutting

Merge national styles here?

Moved from Talk:Wycinanki.

Someone had this listed as a requested article so I created it. Merging with papercutting seems to make sense, perhaps as a subsection under "Papercutting#styles." Might encourage expansion of the other mentioned styles into brief subsections as well -- the regional stylistic differences in technique and theme are quite interesting. --Bookgrrl ^holler/looksee 23:21, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

The problem with merging is cumbersome addition of multiple national categories. Let them live their own life. `'mikka 03:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

If there are multiple articles with national variations, could you please list them under "See also" on the Papercutting article so that people can find them? --Bookgrrl ^holler/looksee 18:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

While I want thank Bookgrrl for creating this article, I don't think that national variants of paper cutting are notable and deserve their own article; they are all unreferenced stubs. I support merging them all to papercutting article.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  22:10, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Personally I don't think merging the two articles is right; they are two completely different things done in two completely different countries. Although I do agree with Bookgrrl that it would be logical to combine them if there were different variations from different countries.myako 04:19, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I made this page the central link page to all the other cultural styles. So it's organized, but not quite a merge. They are truely different culturally even if they look very somewhat similar on the outside. Benjwong 06:54, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Kirigami and Kirie

I made an edit to this article, adding in a reference to "kirie", which is the name for pictures made by cutting shapes in paper in Japan. Kirigami doesn't really seem all that relevant to this article, since it is more a form of origami than a style of papercutting, but I have left the reference intact.

Here is the kirie page in the Japanese edition of Wikipedia: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%87%E3%82%8A%E7%B5%B5 Thorf 13:03, 18 January 2007 (UTC)