The canivet workshop

This image artist creates unique pieces or in small series using the canivet technique (popular art widespread in the 17th century of paper cutting). The canivet is a traditional decorative element of Alsatian houses at Christmas time.

Michèle Wagner invents with patience and talent delicate shapes of lace cut out of white paper, finely chiselled with a cutter blade reproducing subtle traditional or modern motifs: bird, tree of life, flower, heart, Alsatian silhouette, kelsch weaving …