quillworkn.
/ˈkwɪlwəːk/, U.S. /ˈkwɪlˌwərk/ 1. The craft of rolling or curling narrow strips of paper and affixing them to a surface to create decorative designs; an instance of this. See quilling n.1 4.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [noun] > work in specific medium
bonework1557
shell-work1611
rockwork1615
feather-work1665
quillwork1688
boss-work1697
ice work1729
wafer-work1789
filigree paper1800
feather-mosaic1843
cut paper1847
plumagery1854
leather-work1856
graffito1863
cuerda seca1911
papercraft1917
barbola1927
rosemaling1933
cuenca1939
penwork1969
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 99 Other Works performed by School Mistresses and their Scholars..Wax Work. Pull Work. Quill Work.
1748 Boston Evening Post 15 Feb. 2/2 (advt.) This may inform Young Gentlewomen..That..Mrs Hiller designs to open a Boarding School..where they may be taught Wax Work, Transparent and Filligree, Painting upon Glass, Japanning, Quill-Work, Feather-Work and embroidery.
1917 F. H. Bigelow Hist. Silver of Colonies 295 The brackets are attached to wooden frames enclosing scrolls of paper quillwork and flowers which sparkle in the candle light.
1974 B. Christy & D. Tracy Quilling Paper Art for Everyone i. 20 In the United States, most of the surviving quillwork pieces are sconces.
1999 M. Bassett Great Paper Quilling Introd. 7 The oldest known quillwork examples date from the 18th or 19th century.
2. A type of decoration for clothing and possessions using softened and dyed porcupine quills, traditional among North American Indian peoples; the craft or process of creating such decoration.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > done using specific equipment
stool-work1526
quillwork1843
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > quillwork
quillwork1908
1799 I. Weld Trav. N. Amer. 395 Their porcupine quill work would command admiration in any country in Europe.]
1843 Knickerbocker 22 164 The Indians prepare it in bark, curiously ornamented with quill work and beads.
1850 L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah vi. 93 Their robes, leg-gins, and skin dresses, glittering with beads and porcupine quillwork.
1874 Overland Monthly Feb. 125/1 The Twin Sisters are spirits that make the Dakota women beautiful, and teach them how to sew and to make bead and quill work.
1908 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics I. 827/2 Closely akin to beadwork is quillwork, especially among the Plains Indians (now done in its purity by few except the Eskimos, the tribes of the north-west coast, and the northern Athapascans).
1966 L. Cohen Beautiful Losers i. 97 With a bowed head she received the compliments which the quillwork on her deerskin gown evoked.
2006 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 24 Aug. 1 The Native American Potawatomi Trails Powwow..will feature Native American singing, dancing, crafts and quill work, free face painting for the kids and traditional cuisine.
Derivatives
ˈquillworker n. a maker of quillwork (chiefly in sense 2).
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > quillwork > one who
quillworkera1913
a1913 E. P. Johnson Coll. Poems & Sel. Prose (2002) 122 The Quill Worker.
1998 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 10 Apr. 1 c The apprenticeship is long and requires food, gifts and other payments to the quillworker for instruction and the right to become a quillwork artist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1688