XOCHIMILCO, Mexico — Mexican artisans are struggling to preserve the traditional manufacture of paper cut-out decorations long used in altars for the Day of the Dead. Defying increasingly ...

“Stencils began to appear for making papel picado, because it is a lot of work if you have to supply a lot of people,” said Torres Alfaro, who still hand-cuts her own stencils with original ...

He designed a 30-foot-tall papel picado structure, which will hang at the East Aldine Management District. "I worked with the fabricator to laser cut the designs out of aluminum panels," he explained.

The southeastern Mexican town is best known as the birthplace of papel picado — intricately cut, colorful tissue-paper banners popular at Mexican festivities — and Amezkua had come hoping to ...

Vasquez is a self-taught master of the art of papel picado, an ancient Mexican custom of precisely cutting scenes into paper. But she does so with a modern twist, turning paper into wearable art.

But for the most up-close-and-personal look at this popular art form, nothing beats a visit to "Papel Picado: The Tradition of Cutting Paper," an exhibit on on display through June 30 at the ...