The art of quilling may well date back to ancient Egypt, but it was in the 16th and 17th centuries that came to greater prominence. At this time it was practised by French and Italian nuns who decorated pictures and boxes with quilled designs. In fact the name quilling derived from the fact that the nuns used goose quills to coil the paper. The art spread to England for decorating religious artefacts. The poorer churches would used gilded or silvered paper, often making indistinguishable from real gold and silver filigree work.
The art of quilling continued to be practised by ladies of the Stuart, Georgian and Regency periods, as well as North American settlers. It was an art practised by wealthy ladies of leisure to decorate a wide variety of household items.
Whilst quilling has fallen in and out of fashion over the centuries, it has enjoyed a recent resurgence in recent years with the development of modern papers and techniques.
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