It earns the most skilful artists respect and admiration. Many techniques are used: the paper can be cut or engraved with a chisel, coloured or left blank. Increasingly, modern technologies are used.

Image caption, Put your open scissors on your line and move the paper with your other hand as you cut Keep your scissors in the same comfortable position in front of you. Using your other hand to ...

it doesn’t matter for this type of cut. If your bit has a bearing guide, lay a straightedge against the fence and adjust it until there’s a paper-thin space between the outer edge of the ...