{"id":5891,"date":"2012-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/2012\/04\/29\/the-feather-workshop\/"},"modified":"2012-04-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T00:00:00","slug":"the-feather-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/?p=5891","title":{"rendered":"The feather workshop."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, let me just start with one thing. I know a lot more about feathers now than I did a couple of days ago!<\/p>\n

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What the possibilities are, what you can with them and to them, and how you can use them incorporated into costumes. And I have to admit, it was a lot more fun than I thought. A lot more fun, and a lot more inspiring \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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First there was a good chunk on the history of the use of feathers, way back 6000 years ago by Egyptians and American Indians. Then a solid presentation of all the birds used for feather-\u201cproduction\u201d. From turkey and goose to peacock, pheasant and ostrich. We got a whole bunch of feathers, trying to decide which came from what bird. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Time for technique! We learned how to make a feather boa. Using ostrich feathers, learning how to \u201cstrip\u201d the feathery part from the quill, I ended up with lots of strands like the one below.<\/p>\n

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Steaming it to make if soft and fluffy. (Note to self: I NEED to get an industrial iron soon!)<\/p>\n

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Anyway. Sewing the strands together again, onion each side, symmetrically, to layers (Which the instructor confusingly called four layers). For the really big ones, you can use as much as 6 layers, sewing down one at a time. Finally you add a thick cotton thread which has sewn down soft goose-feathers on it.<\/p>\n

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And the secret to making this flat thing look fluffy?<\/p>\n

Twist it! Twist it, stan it, and let it dry for two days (the cotton thread needs time to dry) and voil\u00e1!<\/p>\n

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In one and a half hour 8 of us made an ostrich feather boa, (it\u00b4s put together of all of our ca 40cm long pieces) ready to be auctioned at a charity-event.<\/p>\n

We also learned how to make a feathery fabric, but I see I\u00b4ve forgotten to photograph that\u2026 ups\u2026<\/p>\n

Finally, Norbert from Vienna, our instructor, showed us how to make a Las Vegas-ish head-piece.<\/p>\n

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Half-way there\u2026<\/p>\n

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And he\u00b4s done! This is a small picture, so a lot of the finer details are missing, but I tell you, it was pretty cool \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I think I have some big goose feathers at home, I might have to play around with them, see what I can make. Anybody going to Vegas, needing a big headpiece in the near future? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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