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papasmerf said:I would recommend to do so in a soup
Boing said:Leave the feathers in.
papasmerf said:na you boil the feathers and stuff a pillow with them
Sarah said:Boil them? I wash them each carefully with Sunlight dish soap. For a whole wing, if you sprinkle Borax all over it and hang it to dry it will kill all the bugs.
papasmerf said:I wash always told boil to sterilize
Sounds cool aside from the maggotsSarah said:I have quite a collection of feathers. There was a ranch on Hwy 33 east of Kelowna that had a flock of peacocks. I happened to come along early one morning to find the entire flock on the highway, so I herded them off and back down the hill. On my way back later that day, I stopped in to let them know I'd found them on the road, and ended up buying the entire tail fan of a recently deceased male bird. Took it home and put it in the bathtub to take it apart and wash the feathers - some of which were 7ft. long, and realized it was crawling with maggots!!!!!!! :don'twantto-see:/
Had to deal with it ... washed and dried all the feathers, then reassembled them onto a huge 6x8 piece of heavy black felt and made a spectacular wall hanging. Imagine trying to sew feathers that you can't actually handle ...
I have some smaller pieces of feather art that I've made too, like dream catchers.
papasmerf said:Sounds cool aside from the maggots
Sarah said:One of the most disgusting tasks I've undertaken. Next to that would be the intact deer head I had given to me by a friend who knew I was collecting antlers. It was January, so I set it out on the deck for a few weeks until I found the courage to clean it up and now it hangs on my wall along with several others.
Wanna see my rack? :wink2:
Sarah said:Wanna see my rack? :wink2:
Sarah said:The one on the bottom left is the one I 'cleaned up'. I have a moose rack too, but can't find a pic at the moment.
I happened to catch a reflection of the antlers in this pic.