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Learn How Paper Quilling Started Centuries Ago and Why It’s So Popular Today

By Sara Barnes on August 6, 2018

Paper Quilling Inspiration

Before you begin your quest to quill, here is inspiration from contemporary paper quillers around the world.

 

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Melly the Elephant

 

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Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled "Embroidered Life" that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
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