Making something that you can pin into your hat that holds multiple Feather plumes is fairly easy. Here are two examples.
What you will need. 1) a brass medallion ~2″. 2) a hat pin. 3) earring clutch. 4) a bead. 5) tin snips or kitchen shears, 6) E6000 glue. Tools: wire cutters and round needle nose pliers
I used a hat pin that had a pearl end so I cut it off with the wire cutters. You can find 8″ hat pins with pinheads on etsy.
I used the pliers to make a loop of the cut end of the hat pin.
I use the shears to cut 1/4 of the medallion out.
Using my fingers and the round pliers I bent the cut edges of the medallion towards each other.
I first formed it into a cone and then flattened the cone to get this shape.
Looks like this from the other side. It overlaps a little on the cut side.
I pushed the earring back ip towards the loop. and glued it.
I then glued the cone and the decorative bead and pinned it upside down to dry for several hours.
I then shaped the pin to fit the hat.
I glued three plumes into the cone with glue. You can use the E6000 but I used Becons FabricTac. The white plumes are made up of 5-7 feathers each and the plum one 2 feahters.
The point of the pin is pushed into the fabric and then the back of the band. It is usually necessary to anchor the cone by tack stitching it to the fabric.
Laurie Tavan is modeling the headdress with feathers.
Another way to anchor your plumes in addition to the glue is to use the pliers to bend and shape the metal around the stems.
This is easily done with the pliers by placing the tip of the pliers between the stems and squeezing.
With this kind of hat the pin can be pushed into the padding roll under the fabric. The filigree cone does need to be anchored with a pin or tack stitched to the fabric. It is a simple thing to cut the threads and remove the feathers for transport. Model, Breanna Bayba photo © Breanna Bayba, 2010
This is not the type of hat you will be wearing in the wind but it might be a good idea to add some swing tacks to help anchor the stems of the feathers to the fabric so they can still bounce but not move too much while you dance. Model, Breanna Bayba photo © Breanna Bayba, 2010