Strips of millimeter-thin colored paper coiled, shaped, and glued into precise and gorgeous designs by hand: This is quilling, a simple, yet ancient, art that “anyone can learn,” according to Huong Wolf, co-founder of Quilling Card in Massachusetts.
In April 2022, Quilling Card earned two Guinness World Record titles: one for the most people quilling simultaneously, and one for the largest quilled mosaic in the world. It is the first company to market quilling in the form of greeting cards. They are based in Massachusetts and their quilling factories are in Vietnam.
“Since our cards are made in Vietnam, many people think that quilling is an Asian art,” Wolf said. But in fact, quilling can be traced to the ancient Egyptians, who used feather quills to coil incredibly fine strips of gold into intricate filigree adornments for religious objects….