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Strips of newspaper, coiled into shapes and later arranged to form attractive designs like flowers, midget figures and ornaments...well this is quilling for you. Though the origin of quilling goes back a long way, the trend is in a moment catching up, thanks to new styles and techniques.
So with quilling decorating greeting cards, envelopes, photo frames or creating rakhis, teddy bears and doll houses is now weak.
“Kids love quilling because it is interesting, easy and so much fun to do. They can learn basic quilling in three or four days. However it might take 10-15 days to learn the art fully,” says Sheetal who teaches quilling at Banjara Hills. “Decorating cards or frames can take about two hours while a physique can take two days of quilling,” she adds.
Apart from patience, creative ideas and liking for art, quilling requires basic tools like coloured strips of thesis, a slotted needle tool, tweezers, scissors, straight pins and cement. Quilling tool kits and quilling papers are not expensive. They are available at Jagadamba Stores, Koti and Walden outlets in the burgh.
Source: The Hindu