Christmas hearts is a unique Danish papercut tradition invented by the well-know Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen around 150 years ago. Basically, a Christmas heart consists of two pieces of folded glossy paper of different colours which are cut in a certain way and then woven together so that they form the shape of a heart. There are boundless numbers of possibilities for designs of these hearts, and I think that is part of what fascinates me about making them.
- Sune Nielsen (author of the book Hjerter til jul, or 'Hearts for Christmas')
Those are so cool. I was reading something recently about Jewish papercuts and now I'm a little obsessed with those.
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