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gt1cm2
Location: Wellington
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 Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:08 pm Feathers - any ideas |
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Can anyone think of or give me examples of something you would decorate with feathers? Bag, clothing etc. I have found the most beautiful blue peacock feathers and I want an excuse for buying them other than "but they were so pretty" don't think Grayson will fall for that one.....
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Chevalier
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:17 pm |
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| Hat's the way to go; I'd say. I shoudl ask though: what period and region are you?
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Effigy
Location: Warkworth
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:39 am |
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The hat idea is good, I'm thinking of something I saw in the Tre Riche Heurs, April and May http://humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/april.jpg
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/may.jpg
Also this hat from Codex Manessus fol 32. Not sure it is appropriate for a woman, but it definitely has peacock feathers.
I believe that Elizabethans didn't wear peacock feathers as there was an association with the 'evil eye'.
If that helps at all, all the research I could do in 5 min, but I'm happy to help with more.
Smiles
Anne
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gt1cm2
Location: Wellington
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:40 am |
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| Chevalier wrote: | | Hat's the way to go; I'd say. I shoudl ask though: what period and region are you? |
Sorry missed that one, I haven't had a time period up until now but it is going to be 1410ish Poland which from what I can understand they normally followed German then Italian fashions, I just need to find more examples.
Thanks for that Effigy, the feathers I were after were little bright blue body feathers, not the eye ones but thats even better!!
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did they beat the drums slowly
did the play the fife lowly
did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
did the band play the last post and chorus
did the pipes play the flowers of the forest |
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wuzzle
Location: levin
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:45 pm Re: Feathers - any ideas |
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| gt1cm2 wrote: | | Can anyone think of or give me examples of something you would decorate with feathers? Bag, clothing etc. I have found the most beautiful blue peacock feathers and I want an excuse for buying them other than "but they were so pretty" don't think Grayson will fall for that one..... |
watched mandy carefully cut into several pairs of earings you can
use for quills can use cut up as above and mosaic them
or decorate the outsice of picture frames.......it goes on and on
wuzzle
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Carl
Location: Just beyond the firelight
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:00 pm |
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very small fish-hooks
and then you can throw them at a fishie for your little dishie.
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BigMac
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Masqurade, all sorts of designs.
TTFN
Bigmac
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griff
Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:45 am |
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"and then you can throw them at a fishie for your little dishie."
when the boat comes in
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stephan
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:14 am |
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| that all will pale, to the feathered cod peice of doom
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gt1cm2
Location: Wellington
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:45 pm |
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Thank you Ann for posting that picture above, my era is Poland and I just found a polish book (which unfortunately I can't read) that is fantastic and it has that very picture in it. I now have a legitimate excuse for buying bright fantastic feathers!!!
http://picasaweb.google.com/jedamblabott/HistoriaUbiorW02/photo#5171389314871437058
Carl, as much as I like your idea, I can't eat fish so I don't think I'll try to catch any 
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did they beat the drums slowly
did the play the fife lowly
did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
did the band play the last post and chorus
did the pipes play the flowers of the forest |
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