Polish papercut print punting blank greetings card

Lucyna Mazur is Polish but lives in Cambridge, UK where she teaches art at a local college and also tours folk fairs to demonstrate and teach Polish folk dancing. She is founded her brand ILYB (ILIkeYourBag) to make tea towels, Cards, cushions and bags and all her products are printed from her own original Wycinanki (papercut) designs inspired by Polish folklore. Wycinanki, pronounced vee-chee-non-kee, is the folk art of papercutting. Traditional wycinanki designs feature repetitive motifs and symmetrical compositions. People originally cut coloured paper with sheep shears and without the aid of a stencil or pencil drew and created beautiful collages to decorate their homes adorning white-washed interior walls and ceiling rafters. The most common designs are spruce trees and flowers or feature animals, particularly birds like chickens and roosters. Other designs, called gwiazdy, are geometric, including circles, stars, snowflakes, and other shapes