Gimme a paper cut
Love Rob Ryan and his pretty, witty papery products? Then perhaps we could interest you in these. Papel picardo, or Mexican paper streamers, if your Spanish is a bit rusty. Used to celebrate weddings, birthdays and the Day of the Dead festival, the designs are cut from tissue paper with chisels.
But wait, before you hop on the next plane to Guadalajara, these are available in a shop in the East End. Check out Milagros‘ shop on Columbia Road or the website for these and other lovely products including bright woven baskets and bags.
The wedding decoration bunting would be perfect for an outdoor summer do. And yes, I do believe I urgently need a blue paper cut of a skeleton smoking a fag on a bike. If you think you don’t, you’re kidding yourself. Or already dead.
These are beautiful! I really, really wish that I had the patience for this craft.
It’s traditionally done hundreds of sheets at a time with a chisel too! Which sounds strangely brutal.