Quilling Paper

During the Renaissance, nuns and monks using quilling, coiling and shaping of narrow gold-glided paper to replace costly gold filigree in order to decorate religious objects such as book cover. In 18^th and 19^th century, young ladies in England transform quilling to decorate tea caddies and pieces of furniture.

In 21^st century, quilling design and specialty supplies have definitely caught up. Today, quilling focus on making decoration in 3-D figures. Quilling also now becomes a way of bringing personality to handmade cards.

There is many kind of quilling for example

Quilling materials include quilling paper with 1/8 '', standard width, quilling tool ( needle tool or slotted tool ), ruler, scissors, tweezers, glue ( clear-drying, suitable for paper ), plastic lid ( to use as a glue palette ), T-pin, paper piercing tool, or round toothpick, glass-head straight pins, non-stick work board, cork or styrofoam ( something into which you can stick pins), damp cloth ( to keep your fingers free of glue.

I started exposing myself to quilling art when I am 18 years-old. My sister show me a picture of quilling paper decoration cards, and I start to do some research on it. I search the tutorial of quilling paper from youtube, web-site and even blog in order to pick up the skills. Due to the limited material I have, I use color paper cut into paper strip and use a pin to be quilling needle. I tried to roll and shape the color paper and successfully create a birthday cards for my piano teacher.

In my opinion, quilling is fun when the paper strips transform into a picture or wording. Quilling art is a kind of handicraft that can transform a paper strips into a different shapes of 3-D decoration. The color of paper strips make the decoration become more artistic, beautiful and reality. Quilling had become my hobby and I wanted to buy a set of quilling materials and continue explore myself in this area. But I could not find it and it is quite expensive to me. Anyway, I still like to do quilling as it is fun and special.