quilling

(obsolete) A band of fluted muslin resembling a row of quills.

A form of art that involves the creation of decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.

(US, and, Canada, especially, Appalachia, and, the Prairies) The practice of blowing pepper or snuff through a quill into the nose of a woman who is giving birth, to induce sneezing and diaphragmatic contractions which will induce or hasten labor.