How To Make A Hawaiian Feather Lei

The best part about making a Hawaiian Lei out of feathers is that, unlike a lei made from flowers, the feathers won’t wither up and they will more or less stay the same color. Making these feather leis is a old Hawaiian art form and was done also before the arrival of the first westerners in the 17^th century.

Making this feather lei is not difficult, but it does require a good bit of time. You can create your lei using just one color of flowers or you can use different color and add other kinds of feathers to add charm and color to your lei.

What do you need for this project?

1- A strip of material as long as you are going to want to make the lei and four centimeters wide

2- Needle and thread

3- Feathers

First thing you need to make sure of is that you have enough feathers to complete the lei.

Next fold the material I half across the entire length so that now you have a thicker piece of cloth two centimeters wide.

Take two feathers and gently bend them with your fingers so that they are curved a bit.

Now starting at one end of the cloth, about five inches from the end, start to attach the feathers to the material. Using the needle and thread attach one feather on either side with the curve going out. Make sure that the stitching is good and tight. Attach the next two flowers half way down the first two so that half of the feathers are still exposed.

Continue along the length of the material until you get to about four inches from the other end.

That’s it your done enjoy your new creation.

ALOHA!

Read more about this craft and culture at http://www.tetura.com/main.html

Hawaiian Feather Art Of The 18th Century

Historically man came to the Hawaiian Islands about two thousand years ago. Up until thearrival of Capitan James Cook in 1778 the materials that the native Hawaiians used in their art were few. These materials consisted of wood carvings, petroglyphs (rock engravings), bark cloth (which they call kapa in the Hawaiian Islands and tapa elsewhere in the pecific), tattoos and of course what is important to us feather art.

There are two great products that the native Hawaiians made out of feathers. One was capes made out of feathers and netting. And the second was the feather Lei which is the necklaces that you always see made out of flowers.

This feather cape is called a `Ahu`ula

This feather cape even though it looks the same is called by a different name. this feather cape is called a Ahuli`i.

This feather cape is made out of feathers from the Pueo bird which is actually a Hawaiian short-eared owl.

Here is a picture of a 18^th century feather Lei.

Simple DIY Feather Placemat

This is a great project you can do just for the sake of arts and crafts or if you are trying to put together an event with a feather theme.

What you will need

· Glossy colored poster board

· Real feathers

· Pencil

· Glue

· String

· Scissors

These are instructions on how to make a circular feather placemat.

· Decide how large you want to make the placemat. Use the string and pencil to draw a perfect circle. Tie the string to the pencil, put the pencil on one edge of the circle, hold the string in the center and draw the circle while keeping the pencil straight.

· Cut out the circle using the scissors

· Turn the circle upside down and attach the feathers with the glue. Have fun with this part. You can space and arrange the feather however you wish.

· Let it dry and you are all done.

If you want to make a square shaped placemat all you need to do is use a ruler and cut the poster board to the size that you want and follow the same instructions.

You can then also decide if you want to attach the feathers to all four sides or just two of them.

You can also buy feather trim to attach to the sides of your placemat.

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Pheasant Feather Dresses

We have seen so much beautiful feather apparel that sometimes I wonder if I have seen it all. But of course that’s never true because there is always something new and exciting that people are doing with feathers.

My latest discovery was of some beautiful pheasant feather dresses that were paraded down the catwalk, and I am not talking about the kind of feather apparel that we saw on the

cat walk at the Victoria Secret show in New York.

I actually found three dresses that were made with real pheasant feathers. They were all being talked about on other blogs that deal with fashion unlike this blog which is all about the feathers.

The first one that caught my eye was this dress featured onfashionisdanger.wordpress.com in this post that they wrote about the designer Sarah Burton who is the head designer for Alexander McQueen.

Here is a picture of the dress that I think is beautiful.

The second pheasant feather dress that is also breathtaking was on formzine.com in a post by Sarah Rabinowe.

Check out this piece made by Irina Shabayeva.

And last is this piece I found on inspirationenthusiast.com made by Monsieur Yves Saint Laurent.

I put these dresses in the order that I liked them. But which do you like best?

How To Make A Feather Fan like the One Julia Roberts Is Warring In “Mirror Mirror”

Ok it`s actually pretty easy all you need is a hot glue gun, some card board, a pensile, a small plate and 28 dyed white peacock tail feathers.

Trace a circle in the card board using the plate and the pensile. Cut out the circle bend it in half and cut it so that you have two perfect half circles. Sort the feathers into 14 pairs of equal length feathers, trim them when needed so that they should be the same length. Now lay out the feathers on the card board. The longest pair should be side by side in the center of the half circle and the smallest pair should be one on either end of the half circle. Space the feathers evenly and so the hairs of each feather are over lapping. Once you have all the feathers laid out nice and even put some hot glue on each feather where it is on the card board. Do this fast so that the glue doesn’t dry. When all the feathers have glue on them press the other half circle on top of the feathers and the hot glue. Wait for the glue to dry and then glue the other half circle on so that the feathers are sandwiched in place. Once its dry you can have it put inside your dress.

Enjoy!

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Dyed White Peacock Tail Feathers, Evil Queens & Julia Roberts

Dyed White Peacock Tail Feathers, Evil Queens & Julia Roberts

‘Mirror Mirror” is the fairy tale story of “Snow White” told with a nice twist. Who would have thought that they would choose Julia Roberts to play the part of the evil queen? I actually think that she is great for the part because the evil queen in the old school Disney version was ugly and scary looking. At least Julia is actually pretty so may she would be the fairest in the land if it wasn’t for that brat snow white. Any way Julia looks great in here gown decorated with dyed white peacock tail feathers. If you are making a gown for some fancy occasion here is how you can make that same feather fan and then sow it into your dress, or you can have the seamstress do it for you.

How To Make A Feather Fan like the One Julia Roberts Is Warring In “Mirror Mirror”

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