Paper art

thumb|Origami cranes thumb|The folding of an Origami crane thumb|200px|A group of Japanese schoolchildren dedicate their contribution of one thousand origami cranes|senbazuru at the [[Sadako Sasaki memorial in Hiroshima.]]

thumb|right|300px|Kurt Schwitters, Das Undbild, 1919, [[Staatsgalerie Stuttgart]] Collage (, from the , "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, by which art results from an assembly of different forms, thus creating a new whole. Collage may refer to the technique as a whole, or more specifically to a two-dimensional work, assembled from flat pieces on a flat substrate, whereas assemblage typically refers to a three-dimensional equivalent.

thumb|A traditional bookbinder at work thumb|Bookbinder's type holder

thumb|A traditional silhouette portrait of the late 18th century A silhouette (, ) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhouette is usually presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an outline, which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic medium, but were

tool that is used in office and administration; craft in which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied to an image or pattern that has been carved, molded, laser engraved or vulcanized, onto a sheet of rubber

thumb|300px|A vintage scrapbook

thumb|Page from the Diwan (poetry)|Diwan of Sultan Husayn Mirza with calligraphy made by découpage. [[Herat, c. 1490. Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] thumb|A lion attacking a deer, stencilled scene of découpage paper shapes. Ottoman Empire|Ottoman, c. 1501-1550. [[British Museum]] Decoupage or découpage (; ) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from purpose-manufactured

art of paper cutting in China

is a variation of origami, the Japanese art of folding paper. In , the paper is cut as well as being folded, resulting in a three-dimensional design that stands away from the page. typically does not use glue.

thumb|Paper-cut with stupa. One of the earliest known papercuts, this specimen was recovered by Paul Pelliot in the Dunhuang grotto and is dated to the tenth century. [[Bibliothèque nationale de France.]] thumb|300px|Chinese paper cuttings (2014)

method of aqueous surface design

book with moving parts constructed of paper, commonly directed at children

thumb|Paper quilling

traditional handmade paper from Korea

thumb|right|300px|Part of the Huexotzinco Codex, written on amate. Amate ( from ) is a type of bark paper that has been manufactured in Mexico since precontact times. It was used primarily to create codices.

figure cut out of paper or thin card, with separate clothes, also made of paper, that are usually held onto the doll by paper folding tabs

stamping process for producing sunken designs in paper or card stock

slavic form of the art of papercutting

making of artistic works entirely or primarily of paper

type of collage and collaging technique

Small stage made of paper on which the technical diversity of a human stage can be imitated or tested in model form.

Christmas decoration made from paper

thumb|100px|Traditional Japanese are a kind of ceremonial origami, folded distinctly from "origami-tsuki". They serve as gifts that express "good wishes". Noshi consists of white paper folded with a strip of dried abalone or meat, considered a token of good fortune and longevity.

Mexican decorative craft made by tissue paper

Japanese craft of making paper stencils for dyeing textiles

art developed in China

Jewish paper cutting

thumb|right|Hand made greeting card Card making is the craft of hand-making greeting cards. It shares skills in common in allied crafts such as scrapbooking and stamping.

thumb|A Georgian japanned tin tea tray—severely worn—black lacquer and gilt made in Birmingham, UK

200px|thumbnail|right|A klecksograph by Justinus Kerner, published 1879 Klecksography is the art of making images from inkblots (German Tinten-Klecks). The work was pioneered by Justinus Kerner, who included klecksographs in his books of poetry. Since the 1890s, psychologists have used it as a tool for studying the subconscious, most famously Hermann Rorschach in his Rorschach inkblot test.