Paper quilling roll samples

just so folks know what this is all about..... I sure didn't !!

Quilling, or paper filigree, is the art of creating intricate shapes from strips of paper. The technique is simple: After a long, narrow ribbon of paper is rolled around a needlelike tool, the strip is slipped off, arranged with your fingertips into the desired shape, and then glued to a background of contrasting paper, fabric, or wood.

Thanks Book , but I can't use this.

 

Looks like a chart that was used as part of a class teaching how to do quill work.

 

How big are these sheets
please?

 

Very interesting. Maybe you could donate this to your local library.

 

I believe I'm in on these.

 

Ah, if it's that small I revise my opinion... probably made by a crafter for their own use. Or maybe a demo a storeowner put up on the shop's wall?

 

I like their hand writing ....look at the Q ...G....& H.....that's old school !!!

 

Hmmmmmmm...... How 'OLD' are you???

 

Another thought... maybe it was made by a student while in a quilling class as an exercise?

 

I don't understand the "old school" reference either --

"Old school" to me would be the way I was taught to make a capital "Q" in cursive.

Hold on to your seats when you look at the link below for the way "some" of us were taught to write in cursive way back when. The "Q" always fascinated me the most because it was the spitting image of the way I wrote (and still write) a "2."

Looking at the various charts, I think we were taught the "Palmer" style of writing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=old...v&sa=X&ei=EpGJVY_pHcK6ggS5u5_ICw&ved=0CB0QsAQ

 

I meant that it's done by someone who learned how to write a long time ago.

R U saying this handwriting is modern , Yourturn ?

Oh...& King....I'm older than you .....in body............still 19 in spirit though !

 

Komookwa said: "R U saying this handwriting is modern , Yourturn ?"

Not necessarily and mainly because the greater difference in "old handwriting" generally appears in cursive handwriting, which this is not. The handwriting to me has an "older feel." That could be because it was written by an "older" person who learned an "older" method of handwriting or simply because the "older" person writing it cared about her(?) handwriting being both readable and pleasant to look at.

 

Have seen a resurgence of quilling in the last few years, but I played with it in the mid '70s (still have a bunch of strips stashed away somewhere), and know that classes were still pretty common at craft shops well into the '80s, would guess this was a chart/sampler from one of those 1970s-'80s classes. Looks like someone was so focused on their 'calligraphy' (also popular in the same time period) that they misspelled "Quilling".

My Mom learned Palmer method in the '30s, my brothers in the '50s, and it was the same method taught to me in the '60s - Mom and one brother still write and print beautifully, the other brother and I have more eccentric, though still legible, backhanded scribbles (I can write in near perfect Palmer script, but it's not natural to my hand). Really, more often use my graphic arts/drafting block-letter printing, can print as fast I write, and have found that some, especially younger folks, have difficulty in reading cursive, even if very legible...

~Cheryl

 

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