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Papel picado<\/em> is a traditional Mexican folk art of colorful tissue paper cut with intricate designs.  Artists string the individual papers to form banners that are used for a number of holidays and festivals.  For Day of the Dead, banners with skeleton themes, like this one, are hung around the ofrenda<\/em>, or offering, and often in public squares as well.  Traditionally, artists cut the paper by hand with tiny, very sharp chisels.  They follow a pattern and place a lead plate at the bottom of a stack of paper, so they can cut through as many as 50 sheets at once.  Cut plastic instead of paper is a recent innovation that allows the decorations to survive outdoors in the wind and rain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Papel picado is a traditional Mexican folk art of colorful tissue paper cut with intricate designs.  Artists string the individual papers to form banners that are used for a number of holidays and festivals.  For Day of the Dead, banners with skeleton themes, like this one, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"parent":6583,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"overlay_title":false,"hide_featured_image_post":false,"wfu_hide_page_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6599","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPapel Picado - Timothy S. Y. 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