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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • PREFACE: Learning Quilling Is Like a Child Learning How to Speak
          by Zhu Liqun
  • INTRODUCTION: The Beginning and Development of Quilling
  • CHAPTER 1: Chinese Quilling
    • 1. Chinese Art Inspiration
    • 2. Chinese Auspicious Implication
    • 3. Chinese Quilling Characteristics
  • CHAPTER 2: Quilling Preparation
    • 1. Materials
    • 2. Tools
    • 3. Ten Basic Techniques
    • 4. Chinese Quilling Category-
            Line and Scroll
            Loop
            Coil
            Crescent
  • CHAPTER 3: Introductory Lessons
    • 1. Splendid Fireworks
    • 2. Rabbit
    • 3. As Close as Fish and Water
    • 4. Orchid
    • 5. Rat
    • 6. Dragonfly Skimming the Water Surface
    • 7. Deer
    • 8. Chrysanthemum
    • 9. Abundant Year
    • 10. Mandarin Fish
    • 11. Ruyi
    • 12. Carp
    • 13. Perfect Bliss
    • 14. Sunflower
    • 15. A Frog at the Bottom of a Well
    • 16. Swallows Returning from the South
    • 17. Tulips
    • 18. Crane
    • 19. Lotus
    • 20. Peace for All Seasons
  • CHAPTER 4: Advanced Lessons
    • 1. Live Peacefully and Work Happily
    • 2. Fluttering Fragrant Osmanthus
    • 3. Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water
    • 4. Warm Spring River
    • 5. Ginkgo
    • 6. The Drunk Imperial Concubine
    • 7. Peacocks
    • 8. Blooming Flowers
  • APPENDIX: A Collection of Chinese Quilling Shapes

Title: Paper Quilling Chinese Style
Author/Designer: Zhu Liqun, Yao Xiaoyan
Format/Publication Date: HC:2015
Publisher: Shanghai Press, Shanghai, China
Language: English
Page Count: 160
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 10 1/2" x 7 1/2"
ISBN: 9781602200173

SUMMARY- If no other book has inspired you lately to quill, this one will. There is a sensual grace to the projects with the vivid colors and shapes that is mesmerizing. Two of the most endearing pictures aren't given as projects in this book, though - the Siamese cats, and the rat wedding. Of the projects, the Crane drew me the most, but there are so many amazing pieces to choose from, tomorrow my answer may be different. Now I'm going to HAVE to find the first book...