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Sven Lindqvist

I’m Sven. I cut layered paper scenes by hand and show how. Shop my templates and guides, or learn to cut your own.

  • Hands cutting small fir shapes from green paper

    Paper cutting for beginners

    A beginner video course: tools, patterns, cutting and layering.

    $39

  • A granite island and wooden jetty at dusk in an archipelago.

    A day on my island

    8 min · Free

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  • Green folder of printed paper-cut templates standing upright

    Cutting template folder

    Printable templates to cut and stack.

    $14

  • A lit shadow box of layered cut paper trees.

    How a light box works

  • A natural tee printed with wordless layered pine forest under a pale moon.

    Forest moon tee

    Tee · printed to order

    $28

  • Hands cutting a layered pine forest from green paper.

  • About me

    Sven Lindqvist

    I’m Sven, a paper cut artist. I cut forests, boats and lighthouses from layers of paper, on an island in the Swedish archipelago.