There are many people here who know how to create almost everything with inkscape but we don't know what exactly do you want.
Learning the skills how to draw one, or an image of a paper piece?
What style should be the drawing in? Cartoon-like, pencil-sketched, photorealistic?
What are the parametres of the 3D object you want to draw?
What view should the image depict of it?
What would you use the final image for?

Do you have a reference image?

First, thanks for the quick response. I need to know how to design the image using Inkscape. I need the scroll paper to be front-facing and with a realistic parchment-textured or ancient-looking paper (stick handles inside the rolls). I do not know how to design the rolled edges. I just need the basic idea behind it - nothing fancy. I want to use the image for ancient maps, ideas, passages and similar effects. (I did see this done with adobe illustrator using the "pencil" tool and the "3d extrude and bevel" tool - is it possible in Inkscape: http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/il ... er-scroll/)

Looked at that tutorial.

That shape of the roll looks forced to me, seems it's floating in space.

That's not a simple task to reproduce, if you want to follow such a constructed method.
Inkscape doesn't have that 3D based workaround.
First, you would need to draw the edges of the paper in sideview with the pen tool.
Then, add a stroke to it, then convert the stroke to path.
After that, you would need to transform -rescale/skew, or even try the perspective tool.
With a duplicant, the other edge of the paper roll would need to be drawn,
then used extrude extension on both.
After that, comes alot of manual working, to achieve the right shapes of the paths
by node editing, booleans, combining paths, snapping, which may differ on what tools you like more.
Then, for the text you would need to convert it to a compound path,
transform by the pattern along path extension, perspective extension, scaling, and such.
Very intuitive method if not all the parts are constructed in a geometrical way.

For those wooden stick it is easier to draw them manually.
After the shapes are right, you can use them as clipping masks for bitmap textures as in that tutorial,
or try out some filter effects, filter editing.

That is how one go to draw a similar image in inkscape in a nutshell.

By the way I don't know what happened to your first post that started this topic.
Just in case, the reference tutorial you linked is here.

Thanks. I knew it wouldn't be that easy/ As to the first post, I tried to edit it - meaning attach/add an example image.