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Viačaslaŭ Dubinka was key in reviving in Belarus the folk art of paper cutting images with scissors. [1] Repeatedly the winner of international competitions, he left behind thousands of images with this technique. His works have adorned calendars, business cards, notepads, postcards and other items. [1] [2]
Christmas cards with the Royal cypher at the center of a rosemaling design were especially popular; many have survived and their history documented. [citation needed] Currently, this specific type of folk art is becoming popularized in a more mobile way.
Maud Lewis accompanied her husband on his daily rounds peddling fish door-to-door, bringing along Christmas cards she had painted. She sold the cards for five cents each, the same price her mother had charged for the cards she had made when Maud was a girl. These cards proved popular with her husband's customers.
A folk art environment is a large-scale work of art created by a folk or self-taught artist. These works are identified and recorded by Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments, a non profit arts organization. [26] The Folk Art Society has awarded 12 plaques of recognition to various folk art environments.
The origin of Jewish paper cutting is unclear. Ashkenazi Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries practiced this type of art. However, Jewish paper cuts can be traced to Jewish communities in Syria, Iraq, and North Africa, and the similarity in the cutting techniques (using a knife) between East European Jews and Chinese paper cutters, may indicate that the origin goes back even further.