Papel Picado
パペル・ピカド / 19th century– / Technique / Festival Crafts
Mexico's festival craft of chiseling dozens of tissue sheets at once — delicate openings that pass light and wind, carrying celebration and remembrance with the same lightness.
Chisel-cut openwork / Tissue-paper banners / Light and wind passing through / Fiesta and Día de los Muertos
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- The workshops of San Salvador Huixcolotla / the Day of the Dead altar / the lineage from Aztec amate paper