quillwork

[ kwil-wurk ]

noun

1. a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
2. an American Indian handicraft or utility item decorated in this manner.

Example Sentences

She knows firsthand the importance of art — beadwork, textiles, quillwork — to sustaining Indigenous traditions, and in 2015 she turned that knowledge into her own brand: B.Yellowtail.

From Los Angeles Times

A market study of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota by the First Peoples Fund, a nonprofit that supports Native artists and culture bearers found that 79 percent of home-based businesses were in traditional arts like beadwork and quillwork.

From New York Times

While her fingers swiftly flew at her quillwork, she told the story of how the earth began.

From Literature

Also going on display will be a bag, known as quillwork, that was used by a Native American soldier.

From Fox News

They’re known for putting a contemporary spin on traditional beadwork, quillwork and dolls.

From New York Times