A short acount of history
- With the term découpage, from the French verb découper = to cut, we mean that particular technique through which items can be decorated with images cut off from decorated papers, glued and "verificate" with different kinds of transparent glues. It is difficult to indicate a precise birth-date of this particular technique. However, during the XVI century some furniture and items decorated with cut paper images and lacquered arrived to Europe from East. This technique was reinvented and during the XVII century all the European Courts were crazy about every kind of object decorated with small "silhouette" pictures. As time goes by furniture, jambs and different objects were decorated with the decoupage technique, that is with cut pictures of "ribbons", namely frames, ribbons, bows, putti and rose windows.