                            Quilling, Paper Art
     
          Well first we have to find out what quilling is! Most of us
     don't really know.  In fact I didn't know until I decided to
     research the subject and found it to be very interesting.  If you
     like working with your hands and you like doing crafts, you will
     enjoy doing quilling.
          Any one can learn quilling.  Young and old alike!  Children
     start while in kindergarten with making shapes with paper.  Perhaps
     you can even remember that!  You get better each time you do it. 
     What one must do is get the feel of the paper while wrapping it
     around something.  Getting to know how tight the tension should be
     is the key to the whole thing.  Once you master the tension or the
     feel of wrapping it around an object, you have it made.  You are
     only limited to your imagination.
          Quilling is said to have been started back around the time
     paper was invented.  Paper was invented in China around 105 A.D. 
     At that time, paper was the least expensive.  So many decorative
     designs, wall hangings, jewelry and coverings for boxes were done
     in quilling.  Quilling is paper art.  It was called quilling 
     probably because in olden times, pens were made from feathers
     (quills).  And quills is what the paper was wrapped around to make
     the different types of coils.  After the paper was wrapped around
     the quills the coils were then made.  Some were tight, some were
     loose.  After that, the shape is pinched in shapes of leaves, tear
     drops, flower shapes (all kinds).  You can do just about anything
     in any shape to make a design.
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