Posts Tagged ‘dye’

I want to share with you how you can custom dye French veil. I just received an email from a friend who wants me to design a custom fascinator for her son’s wedding. As soon as I see her dress and pick up a paint swatch at the hardware store, yes I did say hardware [...]

I use a lot of feathers when making fascinators and yesterday I decided to test one color of cold dye on the same feathers that I use Rit dye, which is a hot water dye. My new client Jaime brought these dyes to me as a gift when she came to bring her dress and [...]

I am working on dyeing feathers today again and wanted to test cold water dye on feathers verses dyeing in hot water. Jaime, my new client brought me 7 cold water dyes yesterday and I was quite thrilled with her generous gift. Everything I’ve done so far I’ve done out of my own pocket, which [...]

Every now and again I take time to play around and think about which direction I want my millinery to go. I know that playing is an important part of coming up with new ideas and growing as a milliner. First I began playing with flowers. I only have one die for my die cutting [...]

Let’s make Marabou Feather Pom poms! This morning I was preparing things to start my day, when an idea popped into my head. I immediately went to find a white marabou stole in my stash and brought it through to my work station. It is an easy fun project that you can make quickly, to [...]

More of my dyed biot feathers! This morning when I woke up, I decided to dye some feathers in a jade color to coordinate with some fabric my sister Norma sent me from England. More and more I can now make and produce the kind of pieces I want to design. Because of my feather [...]

Organization and conclusions. For the past few days I have experimented in every way possible with dyeing feathers and it has been an extraordinary experience. I now have a plan, a method and a great understanding of producing colored feathers for my art that will coordinate with fabric, beads and anything else I may use [...]

Tie-dye and Spray dyeing Feathers. It’s time to experiment a little with more unusual feather dyeing. This photo may look a little strange but I wanted to see what would happen if you tie-dyed feathers. I set up my frying pan with a pizza pan balanced on top, leaving enough space to lay out two [...]

Dyeing Goose Biot Feathers. All I have in white feathers are fluffy goose feathers and goose biot feathers, so today I decided to test some biots to see how well they dye. The photo above shows how funny these stiff, hard feeling, crazy looking, half feathers are and they are the kind of feathers that [...]

Dyeing feathers from your kitchen pantry. First coffee and tea. While waiting to go into Houston to buy more Rit dye, I decided to test food product dyeing on white goose feathers to see what happened. My first test was using teabags. I heated 1 cup of water in the microwave and dunked in a [...]