North American Quilling Guild Official Shape Chart
The following is a list of the recognized shapes and techniques the NAQG deems to be the basic shapes used in quillwork. Although each and every shape has numerous variations, these are the ones felt to be most commonly used by quillers. The NAQG official accepted name for each shape is listed under the photo. Alternate names are listed to the right.
There seems to be no set standard amongst the various books, kits, self published instructions, or brochures as to the exact name for each quilled shape. The shape names seem to be randomly applied by whoever designs a quilled item or writes about one. Therefore any alternate names used to describe the shape (that the NAQG is aware of) have been included to help identify which shape is being referenced.
Literally dozens of variations can be created from these basic shapes and most of them have no specific name. Other shapes have one or more variations that are given an “official” name as in the teardrop or marquise shapes. Both have a recognized variation with a separate name, i.e. shaped teardrop or shaped marquise. The hundreds of other variations are only known as an alteration of the original basic shape from which they were created.
Shape Name Other names Shape Name Other names Shape Name Other names
LOOSE COILS SOLID ROLLS ball bead
coil tight coil closed loose coil solid roll closed loose roll peg SR-4…….Bead loose circle disc roll
pom pom LC-6 Loose coil carnation SR-1 Tight roll drop
raindrop cup peacock eye domed roll
SR-5 Fringed can be very long, flower thin, and pointy or short, fat, and squat
SR-2 Grape LC-7 Teardrop roll comma cone curved teardrop cone roll flame dimensional tight petal roll wing
LC-8 Shaped SR-3 Teardrop Tapered/Sculpture d roll
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Shape Name Other names Shape Name Other names Shape Name Other names
eye diamond cat’s eye
LC-19 LC-14 Egg LC-9 Marquise Rectangle pressed heart leaf moon rolled heart curved marquise half moon shaped eye
LC-20 Heart
LC-15 dart Crescent arrow LC-10 Shaped
Marquise gumdrop
Can be very narrow and pointy or very short, fat, and squat LC-21 Arrowhead
duck foot LC-16 Half LC-11 circle Diamond Is a variation of the beak heart shape LC-22 Tulip
LC-17 Bunny ear LC-12 Triangle
LC-23 Trumpet
LC-13 Square
LC-18 Oval
LC-24 Eccentric coil
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Other Shape Name Other names Shape Name Other names Shape Name names
ring coil, open ring, sometimes used as S shape collars
LC-25 Solid ring
SF-35 S scroll SF-30 Asymmetric V scroll off-center S
quotation marks
Scrolls/Filigree
open loose
coil or scroll SF-36 Asymmetric
SF-31 S scroll Modified V scroll S Fleur de Lis SF-26 bird Loose scroll scissors curl
open heart
heart coil scrolled SF-37 Double scroll heart SF-32 Winged V scroll ‘p’ scroll SF-27 Heart scroll harp P shape off-center heart
SF-38 Double scroll with Flag
SF-28 Asymmetric heart scroll SF-33 C scroll
antennae off-center C
SF-29 V scroll SF-39 Triple scroll SF-34 Asymmetric C scroll
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Shape Name Other names Shape Name Other names Shape Name Other names
TECHNIQUES Bands of thin paper strips tendrils wrapped around a core or bundle of
T-42 Alternate Side strips Looping T-47 Bandaging
Many T-40 Spirals variations, multiple Can be very strips or long and multiple slender or colors short and
squat. Often T-43 Husking pointed on T-48 Braiding one end
and accordion Tube, stick rounded on folds…can the other. be T-41 Wheatears symmetrical or uneven
T-44 Zig Zag
fluting T-49 Spill
T-45 Crimping
for outlining parts or entire sections
T-46 Banding
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