Today, day 1, of the International Millinery Forum in Wagga Wagga, Australia. I was lucky enough to attend a demonstration by Richard Nylon on techniques with feathers. The amazing expanse of his imagination and experimentation with feathers was shared generously with all attendees. I know that I was in awe and benefited immensely from his [...]
Feather Print from Fairie-ality, originally uploaded by geishaboy500. Until I went to Dita Feathers in Sydney I didn’t realise that there were so many different types of Ostrich feathers. The male feathers are bigger than the females, the mating feathers even bigger – In fact they were huge. Then of course there are left and [...]
Yesterday I made my first visit to Dita Feather. Set in an old terrace house-shop just of Oxford Street. I was taken up the narrow stairs to select the feathers I wanted – available in all shapes and sizes (that birds grow) and in an array of colours to suit the current fashion and other [...]