Quilling is the art of rolling narrow strips of light-weight colored paper into coils and shaping the coils into various shapes.  The shapes are then pieced together to represent a picture or an object.  Quilling dates back over 500 years to Central Europe-particularly France-to nuns and monestaries where rolled paper was used to accent and illustrate religeous texts.  Quilling has other names: paper twirling, paper filigree, paper curling, and paper embellishing.  The name "quilling" probably stuck because in the 18th and 19th centuries, paper was wound around feather writing quills.  A popular parlour diversion for women in the Victorian era, quilling has endured over time and today it is being welcomed into the 21st century by use for applications to greeting cards, scrapbooking, and a variety of other arts and crafts projects.