Head bent toward her work, Carolyn Simon uses tweezers to carefully pull a porcupine quill through a tiny hole in a piece of birch bark. She folds the quill with her fingers and then guides it through ...

A diverse group of ten women, ranging from teens to seasoned adults, gathered at the Arlee Fitness Center on a Sunday afternoon to delve into the art of wrap 7-style quillwork. The workshop, led by ...

Christine Toulouse remembers holding a warm cup of tea as her mother and grandmother first taught her how to pluck a porcupine. The trio sat on the front porch of her mother's home in Sagamok ...

Porcupine quills have been used extensively to decorate clothing, birch bark furniture, and personal accessories. In many of these objects, the quills have been beautifully coloured with dyes. Quills, ...