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Those preschool tots laboring to create cutout masterpieces for proud parents are following a craft almost as old as paper itself.
The ancient art of paper cutting originated in North China after the invention of paper there about 100 A.D.
Traditionally called “window flowers” and fashioned from red paper, some of the first cutouts were used to decorate thin paper windows coated with tung oil to make them partially transparent.
The cheerful designs were pasted on the windows year round to give otherwise bleak rooms a touch of brightness and color, the National Geographic Society says.
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Eventually some families used the cutouts to decorate
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