A quilling design.
Make card designs by gluing paper coils in decorative patterns.
Quilling is an art form. Strips of paper are rolled to create designs. It is called "quilling" because the paper is rolled around a feather, or quill. You can make different shapes with the coils.
In the middle ages, people decorated books and manuscripts with quilling art.
In 18th century America, women learned the art. Fashionable ladies might learn to quill in advanced education.
What types of pictures could you make with quilling? Was it easy to make the quilling shapes? How could you learn to make more complex quilling projects? How could you make your own quilling paper?
