Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or craft of making decorative designs out of thin strips of rolled paper.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A narrow bordering of net, lace, or ribbon plaited so as to resemble a row of quills.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills.
- noun One of the rounded plaits or flutings of such a band.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the art of creating
decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper - noun obsolete a band of
fluted muslin resembling a row ofquills
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And then I was transferred into what they called the quilling room where you run the pieces of yarn off of one bobbin on another until you got it full.
Oral History Interview with James Pharis, 1977 July 24. Interview H-38. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By James Pharis James Pharis 1977
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And then I was transferred into what they called the quilling room where you run the pieces of yarn off of one bobbin on another until you got it full.
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So, can we see the results of your single foray into quilling?
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These are so cool - and I've never heard of quilling before, but it looks awesome!
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Being a cross-stitcher and crafty-kinda-gal who also loves to "do" quilling AND an admirer of cake decorating, today's blog entry has my eyes totally satisfied and wanting a cigarette!
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I think I just got some good ideas for decorating my next cake... too bad my next one is for my 15 year old son... you think he'd prefer quilling or cross-stitch because I am NOT doing that crochet thing - beautiful though it may be!
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I honestly had a little spasm looking at the quilling cake.
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One of the best quilling artists I've ever seen is Yulia Brodskaya - just look how gorgeous:
Archive 2010-04-01 2010
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Grass thin, bristle grass quilling, rifing in the light's bone yellows,
King of the Ghosts 2010
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I know the perfect cake for quilling, do a cake of a broken open "party popper" the relatively-benign firework with the little rolls of paper inside.
alexz commented on the word quilling
spotted a BC usage of this as making art from Birch bark and porcupine quills.
October 13, 2021