Paper cutting and folding art

I've just discovered that there are many different countries that produce art using paper cutting and/or folding, known as Kirigami. It's difficult to know which country did this first but here are some links to a variety of different nationality paper artists.

http://www.beatricecoron.com/links.htm

http://www.papercutters.info/SA/ByName/Gomez_Linda/index.php

http://trudykauffman.papercutters.info/SA/ByName/Kauffman_Trudy/Kauffman.htm

http://www.cut-it-out.org/fine/index.htm

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/862-kirigami-the-art-of-folding-and-cutting-paper

Again there is a wikipedia page which explains a little about Kirigami

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirigami