Quilling Honor

Arts & Crafts

Requirements

1. List the materials needed to do quilling.

   Answer: You need paper strips made for quilling (3-10 mm wide), a slotted tool or needle, white PVA glue, fine tweezers, a cork or cardstock base, a ruler, pins, and scissors. — Quilling paper strips have a weight between 80 and 120 g/m², balancing flexibility for rolling and firmness to hold the shape after gluing, according to the standard of the British Quilling Guild since the 1950s.

2. List 3 types of paper used for quilling. Demonstrate which techniques they are most suitable for and mention their advantages and disadvantages.

   Answer: You cite standard quilling paper (high weight, holds shape well, higher cost), common 80g offset paper cut at home (cheaper, less firm), and cardstock (too firm for fine details, great for borders). — Traditional quilling paper has come in pre-cut rolls since the 1970s, popularized by the company Custom Quilling, offering width precision and ideal firmness for hand rolling in modern craft techniques today.

3. Correctly perform each of the following items:
   • Tight coil
   • Loose coil
   • Teardrop
   • Flame
   • Leaf
   • Leaf variation
   • Crescent moon
   • Square
   • Rectangle
   • Triangle
   • Rabbit ear
   • Half circle
   • Arrow
   • Holly
   • Open scroll
   • Open heart
   • Rolled V shape
   • Rolled S shape
   • Rolled C shape

   Answer: You attach the paper strip to the slot of the slotted tool, roll it tightly to the end, remove it from the tool, and let the spiral relax partially until it reaches the desired size. Glue the final tip to fix the shape permanently. — The loose coil is the fundamental shape of quilling: when released and relaxed, the spiral expands through the paper's memory, forming the open circle that serves as the base for other geometries such as the teardrop, eye, square, and variations.

4. Make a display board showing all the shapes learned.

   Answer: You arrange the shapes in a logical order (from simple to complex), label each one with a legible tag, keep uniform spacing between them, use colors that contrast with the background, and firmly fix each piece with PVA glue. — Demonstrative boards follow the Gestalt principle of perceptual organization, where proximity, similarity, and continuity favor the orderly visual reading of diverse elements on a single instructional panel presented to the public.

5. Make a simple floral motif using at least 1 of the 3 methods above.

   Answer: You use loose yellow circles as the center of the flower, colored teardrops as petals arranged radially, and long green leaves (marquise/eye) around forming the stem. Glue everything onto a white cardstock base. — The floral motif is the most classic theme of quilling, present in works since the 15th century in European convents, where nuns decorated liturgical books with colored paper petals in varied shapes and symmetrical patterns.

6. Make a card ornamented with quilling.

   Answer: You use cardstock as the base, firmly glue each piece with a small amount of PVA, avoid overlapping shapes that might come loose, and keep the relief inside an envelope or plastic frame for safe postal mailing. — Cards with quilling should be stored horizontally with at least 5 mm of space for the relief, preventing crushing during postal mailing, in accordance with the recommendation of the British Quilling Guild officially since the 1970s.