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Another reason which makes this art unique is the aesthetic traditions and cultural values that vary across Southeast Asia. Some arts reflect influences from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Artists worked largely on many perishable mediums, painting mostly on wood, cloth, and palm leaf.

Quilling designs can be used to decorate greeting cards, pictures, boxes, eggs, and to make models, jewelry, mobiles etc. Quilling designs which can be quite intricate begin with rolling a single strip of paper into a coil and then pinching the coil into shapes that can be glued together.

The word origami (from Japanese oru [“to fold”] and kami [“paper”]) has become the generic description of this art form, although some European historians feel it places undue weight on the Japanese origins of an art that may well have developed independently around the world.

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