| Stuffed with cheese, ground meat, pureed vegetables, or mixtures thereof | Little sacks Large little sacks Large haystacks Ring-shaped |
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| A 'purse' or bundle of pasta, made from a round of dough gathered into a ball-shaped bundle, often stuffed with ricotta and fresh pear | Curved ridges Lanterns Snailshell-shaped pieces Snails Large snailshell-shaped pieces Large snails Flat roughly cut triangles Badly cut Mandala Designed by Philippe Starck in 1987 for French pasta maker Panzani, intended to compensate for overcooking |
Increasingly common in Asia and North America Small shell shaped pasta Little shells Small short tubes of pasta Little corals Small short tubes Thimbles Smaller versions of Little thimbles Small bow tie shaped pasta Little butterflies "bow tie" in Italian is cravata farfalla, "butterfly tie" Short, thin noodles Smaller version of , approx.
| Marille Designed by in 1983 - like a rolling ocean wave in cross-section with internal rugosities, but unsuccessful and no longer produced | From the Italian gnocco, meaning "a knot in wood" German egg pasta that is either round in shape or completely irregular, when hand made |
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| Possibly from casa "house" A stuffed pasta typical of the Veneto area, with various fillings | Little cloth bundles Semi-circular pockets; about 2 |