Product Description

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.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132803 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781592533862
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

About the Author

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Customer Reviews

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.

My most beautiful quilling book
Quilling, or the art of paper filigree doesn't require much in the way of expensive tools. You could even start off with narrow strips from a mini paper shredder (the author's suggestion), plus glue, scissors, tweezers, straight pins, and something to roll the paper strips around, such as a toothpick or an awl.

"The Art of Paper Quilling" is a good guide to start with, and it is also the most beautiful quilling book I've had the opportunity to read. Most of its projects use 1/8" (3 mm)-wide strips, but the one I wanted to try right away, "A Blue Cornflower and Daisy Arrangement" involved cut-out and fringed petals, plus a fringed center using ¼" (6 mm)-wide strips. A fringing tool would be very useful for many of this book's projects, if you don't want the tedium of fringing strips by hand.

The patterns in this guide vary from 60% of actual size to full-size. (I wish authors would stick to full-size patterns, but I suppose this isn't always possible). They range from simple to complex, but even the complex designs consist of a few varieties of paper coils, repeated many times. Most of the projects involve flowers and/or butterflies, but there are also a few Christmas designs and a pair of Easter bunnies. The finished quillwork is used to decorate picture frames, plaques, boxes, greeting cards, and gift bags (sachets).

Colored photographs decorate this 128-page craft book, including a gallery of paper quilling art by Claire Sun-ok Choi in its final pages. I am especially fond of her fanciful, multi-colored butterflies. This author has also published "Designing Handcrafted Cards: Step-by-Step Techniques for Crafting 60 Beautiful Cards" (2004).