#feathers
☁️ AIR ☁️
My original character - Lady like air spirit
And this is the second lady of element
Process improves strength, color of feather-based fibers
Domesticated chickens in the United States alone produce more than 2 billion pounds of feathers annually. Those feathers have long been considered a waste product, especially when contaminated with blood, feces or bacteria that can prove hazardous to the environment.
Nebraska’s Yiqi Yang is among a growing cadre of researchers looking to transform those feathers into fibers that find a place in natural fabrics. In that vein, Yang and his Husker colleagues are devising and testing methods to improve the properties of feather-derived fibers.
Those methods include cross-linking: chemically bonding long protein chains—including keratin, a water-resistant protein of feathers—to bolster the performance of the resulting fibers and fabrics. But that performance must still improve, and unwanted side effects of cross-linking be resolved, before feathers emerge as a greener alternative to petroleum-based materials—polyester, nylon—currently dominating the market.
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Feather Setting Tutorial
I added a whole bunch of feathers to my kenku costume. Here are instructions on how to do it, yourself!
First, let me establish some terms so we’re all on the same page. For the sake of this tutorial, the “end” and the “tip” are the following:
Ok cool.
1. Figure out where you want your feather to go. Keep in mind that a lot of the feather is going to vanish completely into the fur. If your fur is 2" long, expect that 2" of your feather will not be visible. So when you are placing your feather, just focus on where the tip will be and don’t worry about the rest.
Here, I’m pointing to the feather I’m going to set.
2. Part the fur where the end is sitting. I find it helpful to use a toothpick to part the fibers. Ideally, you want to part it all the way down to the fabric backing.
Once the fur is parted, I find it helpful to leave the toothpick in place as a marker. It makes it a lot faster to find the spot later, because it’s so visible.
3. (not shown.) Put a dab of hot glue on the end of the feather. You don’t need a ton, but make sure there’s glue on both the top and bottom of the shaft.
4. Press the feather into the fur you parted. Try to get the end as close to the fabric as possible. While the glue is still hot, pinch the fur fiber over the top and press it down. The fibers will stick to the glue on all sides.
Once the glue is cool, you can smooth out the fur over the top.
Congrats! You done it! Repeat 300 times for a good look!
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Just a little feather tickling
An Anonymous History of the Creating Individual.
- Junya Watanabe, Fall 2000.
- Maison Martin Margiela, Couture, Fall 2013.
- Ann Demeulemeester, Spring 1992.
- Ulrich Wulff at Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles.
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