The origins of quilling are uncertain, but some believe it started as early as ancient Egypt or first century A.D. China. Paper quilling as an art arose in the late 1500s as a pastime of gentle ladies ...
Some people haven’t the patience to thread a needle, le alone spend hours wrapping thin strips of paper around one. But 71-year-old Kathryn “Iris” Kortisses has been doing it for years, and says she ...
Fifteenth-century European nuns invented it, 18th-century British blue-bloods revived it, and these days, paper quilling is trendy with crafters on social media. That’s where Stacy Bettencourt learned ...