Tip 1: How to make quilling

Tip 1: How to make quilling

The intricate paper art of quilling originatedin medieval Europe. Nuns made medallions, decorating them with strips of paper with gilded edges twisted at the tip of feathers of birds. It is this tool - the feather of a bird - that formed the basis for the name of this lesson, for quil in English means "bird feather".

How to make quilling

You will need

  • - paper strips 3, 4, 6 and 10 mm wide;
  • - a device for twisting paper / thick needle;
  • - scissors;
  • - PVA glue;
  • - tweezers;
  • - toothpicks;
  • - cardboard;
  • - stencil for blanks.

Instructions

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Before you start painting and painting inQuilling technique, learn how to make basic elements. To begin with, master a tight spiral - this is the basis of all elements. Take a thick needle or a special device for twisting the paper and start tightly wrapping a paper strip. Then, when the workpiece is already comfortable to hold with your fingers, remove it from the needle, you can use tweezers, and continue to reel. Using a toothpick, apply glue to the free end of the resulting spiral and glue it so that it does not unwind.

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Based on a twisted spiral, try to makeother elements. For example, a free spiral. To do this, after making a workpiece, do not immediately glue the free end, but hold it on your palm, so that the tension of the loops is slightly weakened, and only then fix the end of the strip.

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The next element is a tight oval and its variations. For twisting, use a wooden stick with a diameter of 6 mm. Screw the paper, fix the end of the workpiece and squeeze the workpiece to make an oval. Now make a free oval: wind a needle strip on the needle, let the curls slacken, flatten the workpiece to make an oval, and fix the end.

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Further, a free oval can be transformed intoelements "drop" and "eye". For the first element, squeeze one edge of the resulting oval until the formation of a crease, the other for both edges. In this way, it is possible to give the circle and the oval different shapes - a leaf, a semicircle, a square, etc.

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After completing the elements, you can proceedpaintings or panels. To do this, sketch a sketch (practice on vegetable motifs) and, selecting the necessary elements, collect the picture. To do this, simply paste the workpieces onto the cardboard. The size of the elements of the picture can be varied by cutting off different lengths of paper strips and using a stencil.

Tip 2: How to make postcards in quilling technique

Quilling - the unique art of making compositions from twisted strips of paper. In the quilling technique, you can make an original gift or a postcard for close people.

How to make postcards in quilling technique

You will need

  • - colored paper;
  • - scissors;
  • - glue;
  • - the basis (sheet of paper or picture);
  • - pins;
  • - Quilling tool.

Instructions

1

To make a postcard in the quilling technique,select a picture - the base on which you will spin the formed ribbons, or take a sheet of cardboard if you want to create a picture yourself.

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Pin the main image outlineon your postcard, for example, it can be a heart, a flower, a Christmas tree, some animal or a bird. Between the pins leave about 5-6 millimeters. After you have completely outlined the outline on your postcard, gently apply a thin layer of glue over it.

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Cut a ribbon with a width of 1-1.5 from color papercentimeter, the length of the tape should match your image. Then tape the ribbon on the contour. For the outline, you can choose not a colored paper, but a corrugated cardboard, it is somewhat denser, and therefore it will perfectly cope with its task. If the tape is too long, you can cut it or twist it at the end.

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When the contour is made, you can proceedQuilling execution. Cut long ribbons from colored paper 1 cm wide, take a special quilling tool. Screw the first strip of paper onto the instrument, leave the rolled roll tightly twisted or slightly relax, glue the tip of the roll with glue to the base. Make colored rolls from all paper strips.

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By lightly pressing you can change the shapesrollers. When all the elements for filling the main element are ready, gently glue them inside the main element of your postcard. To make the postcard look more interesting, use different colors, even if they are not appropriate. For example, the heart does not necessarily have to be completely red, and the Christmas tree is completely green.

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After all the elements are glued, allow them to dry, and then remove the pins that served as the support for the contour.

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A postcard in the quilling technique is ready!

Tip 3: How to make postcards, paintings, crafts quilling

Quilling is the art of making flator volumetric compositions of twisted strips of colored paper. Quilling technique is very popular now. With its help, postcards, pictures and more complex installations are created.

An example of quilling for beginners.

Quilling history

Its name is the art of paper grinding received fromEnglish word "quill", which in translation means "bird feather". This type of needlework appeared at the end of the 14th - early 15th centuries in Mediterranean Europe. Its ancestors are considered to be monks. It was they who, cutting the gilded edges of books, wound them on the tips of bird feathers. This created an imitation of a gold miniature. Quilling quickly gained popularity in Europe, particularly in Germany and England. In Russia, this art came only in the late XX century.

Creation of hand-made articles in quilling technique

Despite its seeming simplicity, quillingis by no means so simple. It requires patience, dexterity and imagination. Therefore, for its development it is necessary to begin not with volumetric compositions, but with pictures and postcards. To begin it is necessary to acquire the necessary tools. First, you need paper. Quilling uses paper of various densities, painted through. It is cut into strips with a length of 15 to 60 centimeters and a width of 1 to 15 millimeters. But you can buy ready-made kit in specialized stores. Paper-weaving uses paper of various densities and is completely colored. The sets include both monochrome strips, and shiny, pearly and even with double tinting. Secondly, for the convenience of twisting, you will need a special tool, similar to a long two-pronged fork. It can also be purchased at the store. To create complex works, machines for corrugating paper and for cutting paper fringe as well as rulers with circles for creating identical elements are used. Besides the strips of paper and the "fork", they need PVA glue and scissors to twist them. After purchasing all the tools, for the future picture. Beginners are recommended simple floral patterns, composed of symmetrical circles. To create a paper element, the so-called module, the tip of the paper strip is inserted into the "plug" and screwed tightly. Modules are twisted from strips of those colors, which are indicated on the diagram. After creating the desired number of elements, they are neatly laid on the canvas and compared by the number. If there are enough modules to create a circuit element, they start sticking. The sticker is made using tweezers and PVA glue, which can be replaced with any other thick glue if necessary. For each module, apply a small drop of glue and, holding it with tweezers, press against the canvas. Thus, the whole scheme is filled with paper elements. After drying the picture, it is inserted into the frame.

Tip 4: How to make forget-me-not flowers in quilling technique

Quilling is the art of paper-rolling, itIt originated in Europe in the late 14th - early 15th centuries. The nuns of that time created medallions by the method of twisting the paper on the end of the pen. Paper muggings, although fairly quickly spread across Europe, but was only available for high-society ladies from rich families, since high-quality colored paper was very expensive material.

How to make forget-me-not flowers in quilling technique
Quilling is the art of making voluminousor flat compositions obtained from spirals glued together. The technology allows you to get flowers, leaves, different lacy ornaments that can be glued to the base or become an independent product.

Preparation of materials and tools

In order to make a panel with the forget-me-nots made in the quilling technique, you will need: scissors, paper of various shades, PVA and toothpicks.

Quilling technique

For one flower forget-me-not it will be necessaryprepare 5 long and narrow strips of blue, each of which is to be screwed onto a toothpick and dissolve to a diameter that will determine the size of the petals. As soon as the roll obtained from the strip will find the right size, its end can be cemented with glue so that it does not dissolve any more. Now you can start making cores, for it you need to use yellow paper, from which you need to cut 2 strips, the width of which will be equal to the width of 5 previous ones. From the first strip you need to twist the spiral, fixing the tip with glue and leaving it tight. The second strip should be cut into 5 equal parts and give each of them the shape of the letter D. The central roll should be glued L-shaped legs at equal distances from each other, they should give a tight helix the shape of the sun with the rays. Now you can start assembling the bud, for this, the central element must be pasted with five rolls, placing them between the beams. Then you can start making other forget-me-nots that will be performed in other shades. In order to make leaves for buds, it is necessary to cut 4 strips of green color, the width of which will be equal to the width of the previous ones. If there is a desire to make a multi-level composition, then the width of the strips for the leaves can be adjusted. Of all the blanks should be made rolls, which after it will need to be removed from the toothpick and a little dissolve. One pair of rolls should turn into "droplets", the other - into "crescents." To create droplets, the loose roll needs to be tied from opposite ends with fingers, to get the crescents, the protrushes should be made slightly closer to each other so that one side of the workpiece is almost flat and the other side is convex. Now you can connect the elements of the petal together. For this, the crescents must be glued together with flat sides, and the drops must be strengthened from below so that the crescents enter between them halfway. Ready leaves and buds can be strengthened on the basis with the help of glue.

Tip 5: Wood in quilling technique

From ordinary paper strips you can get an original tree in the quilling technique. This tree can serve as an ornament to an empty wall or open to Valentine's Day.

Wood in quilling technique

You will need

  • Paper strips (it is better to take special paper for quilling), glue, a special tool for paper twisting (you can replace it with a spoke).

Instructions

1

First lay on the sheet of thick paper a contour of wood and hearts from strips of black paper.

Wood in quilling technique

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Strip it is necessary to put an edge. Add hearts from the red stripes.

Wood in quilling technique

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It turned out a beautiful blank.

Wood in quilling technique

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Now start filling out the outline. The trunk of the tree is filled with black strips, and fill the hearts with circles twisted in the quilling technique.

Wood in quilling technique

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Wood in the quilling technique is ready, you can hang it on the wall or modify and make a postcard - do not be afraid to fantasize!

Wood in quilling technique