Paper Art and Crafts - Soqoo.com

Invented by a Chinese court official in the second century BC, the use of paper spread westward to central Asia in 751AD. 
Paper was made in Baghdad in 793, the golden age of Islamic culture, the knowledge of papermaking spread to the west.
Printing was invented in the 1450s which causes the demand for paper to rise.

Since then, People from all over the world have used paper not only for printing but for creative means, devising numerous ways of folding, cutting, coloring, shaping paper into decorations and intricate art forms.