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Art of Paper Quilling: Designing Handcrafted Gifts and Cards
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Product Description
With a focus on simple, elegant projects, the The Art of Paper Quilling offers paper crafters a complete technique guide along with step-by-step project ideas for making beautiful framed pieces, cards, gifts, and more. The designs are all built upon simple rolled coils of paper that when grouped together, form intricate flowers, graceful butterflies, and delicate scrollwork. Quilled designs can be framed or used to embellish greeting cards, books and journals, and many types of simple paper structures. Claire Sun-ok Choi is an expert paper artist who has influenced the revival of this fanciful art form with her inspiring exhibits and internationally known books.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #91874 in Books
- Published on: 2007-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
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Exquisite quilling
Filled with beautiful designs and exquisite worksmanship, Claire Choi takes quilling from craft to art.
Wonderful & Inspiring!
This book definitely is the best quilling book I own or seen in stores. The projects in the book range from simple to complex. The workmanship is neat and exquisite, a great model to follow. There are some techniques that I have not seen elsewhere that produce interesting effects. The gallery of the author's work is wonderful and inspiring. I hope she would publish a book on how to create those large, complex pieces of quilling artworks. I'd like to try creating one of those heirloom-quality quilling artworks and proudly hang on my wall. The "Art" of Paper Quilling is a very fitting title for the book.
Update: The book has folded roses that are much prettier then roses in other books. However, the directions on page 24 were not detailed enough for me to follow and produce a good looking rose like the ones in the book. I emailed Claire asking for step-by-step instructions. She replied with a video she recorded demonstrating the folded rose. Absolutely wonderful! Seeing it done once is a thousand times better then reading instructions on how it should be done. After seeing the video, I was able to create folded roses just like the ones in the book.
Beautiful designs but ...
This book has absolutely beautiful designs of paper quilling. There are many styles of flower that are completely different than I have ever seen. However, as an experienced quiller I do not think this book will be very helpful for beginning quillers. The author uses strips of a length which are not, to my knowledge, available in either Canada or the United States (10 5/8"). In addition, some of the lengths she says to use for certain designs seem very suspect. In some cases short lengths are used (according to her instructions) but the picture shows an item clearly made from a much longer strip. In addition she mentions widths of paper which I have never seen here (3/16", 9/32", and 5/16"). Finally, her names of the colours of the strips in her book are names which I have never seen here. If I was trying to follow her instructions and was looking in the stores for "dusty grape" strips that were 10 5/8" long, I think I would be very frustrated when I couldn't find them. Therefore, overall I am somewhat disappointed in this book, even though I do love the designs.
