Wycinanki

unintentionally stumbled across a website the other day, and i’m glad I did! It was about my Polish paper cuttings I didn’t copy the article itself the other day, it was pretty boring—essentially it was just about a Polish Papercutting exhibit at some museum in London. But it did have some lovely pictures, so I decided to do a quick post about it—if nothing else, just so I can remember how to spell “wycinanki.” if I had to take a guess, that is pronounced vee-chi-nanki. not exactly how it looks in English, but not too bad for a polish word, either

here’s a few other examples to show the variety of subjects and styles:

Many of these are made from a silhouette cut from black paper, and then other color papers cut and layered over it for a beautiful multicolored effect, as is exemplified by the rooster in the cutting above. some of them are astonishingly intricate and detailed. I know I could never cut such thin, delicate lines with my scissors!

by the way, that last paper cutting, the round flower one above, is/was for sale for $35 on the site where I found the picture.

I bought four beautiful paper cuttings while in Poland, and I bet I didn’t spend that much for all of them. I got a deal!

type Wycinanki into google and you can find out a lot more

anyway, all I have to say, xoxo!

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