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 . Although each and every shape has numerous variations, these are the ones 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 , 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/ 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 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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