• The filigree gives you a delightful range of cards, bookmarks, pictures, frames and decorative items for the home and office, using a range of traditional techniques. This technique revives the delicate art of paper pricking; featuring a range of elegant pictures and border designs inspired by the Victorian era and create beautiful medieval and art nouveau parchment craft cards. Also called quilling -- the fifteenth-century craft of decorating items with rolled-up strips of paper and further sections on embossing and paper lace is a great gift or presentation card  for you or your business.

• This technique originated in Europe, possibly as early as the 13th century. Paper mills were becoming more available making paper less expensive than the metal used in traditional filigree, and the Renaissance had revived an interest in art. Nuns used gilded strips of paper cut from book margins, curled around hollow feather barrels (thus its other name, "Quilling") to decorate churches, imitating the effect of metal filligree (thus the term "Paper Filigree"), but less expensively. The art regained popularity in the mid-18th century in England, and was brought to America where it was very popular and regularly taught to young girls. They used the curled paper to decorate most everything from small accessories to large pieces of furniture. Interest was gradually lost again into the 19th century, but has become popular again recently as materials and tools have become more available.

• Colorful personal or business card for any occasion, hand made with details on paper filigree technique (Quilling), the perfect gift of distinction. A custom card is the perfect gift for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, births, showers, thank you notes, business, or any occasion. Quilling may be added to any photo, announcement, invitation or a design of quilling alone.

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