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hats patterns and fans by Lynn McMasters

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All Things Feathers

Late Victorian Feather Fancies

Using sticks to cut feather

How to shape an Ostrich Plume

Stitching Feathers Together

Dealing with a Broken Tip

Creating Plums from Barbs

Goose Feather Ornament

How to burn feathers for use in headdresses

Advanced Plume Making

How-to make feather fan: part 1

How-to make feather fan: part 2

Using Drilled Hairpins

1790s Tall Headdress

Turning feathers into hat ornaments

What does it take to make a plume, learning by deconstructing.

Laurie Tavan holding fan

Stitching Feathers Together

How to Prepare Feather Stems to Make Them into Plumes

Edwardian Feather Headdress

A tale of two Plumes
1890s Standing Plumes
Wing Feather Ornament
Fiddle-neck Feather
18th C Feather Covered Bergére
Feather Covered Muff
Feather Brisé Fan
1860s Ostrich & chenille Headdress
1860s Goose and Chenille Headdress
Feathers on a Hatpin
How to Choose Ostrich Feathers
How to Curl Ostrich Feathers
Curled Goose Feathers Pad
Hackle Feathers Ornament
Burnt Ostrich and Goose Ornaments
Multi Feather on a Hairpin
How-to Hair Acc.
1890s Feather Headdress
1884 Evening Feather Hair Ornament
1860s Hair Ornament
Biot Feather Flowers
1876 Feather/flower Headdress

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