Carolyn Guest can draw with scissors. The St. Johnsbury resident is one of only a handful of folk artists in Vermont devoted to the art of paper cutting. What began as a way to pass time as a child ...

"I still remember how as a child I watched my mother making paper cuts and sewing under the light of an oil lamp beside my bed. She looked mysterious when she held a paper-cut in front of her face to ...

MARIANNE Dubuis stared intently through a magnifying glass, using a slim cutter to make tiny incisions in paper as she carved out delicate tableaux of life and human emotions. The 64-year-old designer ...

It's a familiar scenario in homes where avid craftspeople dwell among mere mortals − a well-meaning child, on the hunt for a sharp pair of scissors to wrap some Christmas gifts, raids mom's sewing kit ...