Gerlach’s daughters, Roberta and Celeste, grew up learning scherenschnitte and other crafts. “We did the prototypes. The kids had more fun than we did,” Roberta says of her mother’s students.

The 98-year-old former Eldred Township teacher practices the art of Scherenschnitte, also known as paper cutting. But that falls far short of describing the craft. Scherenschnitte is the art of ...

For more than 60 years, Gayle has practiced scherenschnitte, a daunting German word that means "scissor-cuts." The art form involves making intricate designs with scissors or an X-ACTO knife from ...

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