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Rox is a third-generation, Santa Cruz County native with wild and varied interests including, but not limited to such areas as: Research, Reading, Singing, Poetry, Writing, Event Planning, Etymology (that's word origins, not bugs), Quilling (that's paper filigree/paper twirling, not sewing), Tea, Cross-Cultural Myths/Legends/Fairy Tales, Photography, Angliophilic/Celtic things, and whatever strikes her fancy at any particular moment in time.

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Apr 06

QUILLING!

Published in Quilling, local color, Hobbies, Crafts, Classes, art by Acheron | Comment (0)

Quilling - what the heck is it?

Consider it the Medieval version of Reduce-Reuse-Recycle...

Medieval book illuminators, after completing and binding books, would end up with hand-made pages of varying sizes, and slice off edges to make them more even.  Not being wasteful sorts, they would twirl the strips around their quill pens (hence, the term "quilling"),

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