 Amulets like a Hamsa often showed an image of a palm with an eye on it.Paper cuts traditionally were created with the use of shoemaker's knife.It is likely that most artists were men, though in later years, schoolgirls (and boys) made little rosettes (called "royzelekh" or "reyzelekh" in Yiddish) with scissors, to decorate their notebooks or for holiday decorations in the home.