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Vintage Feather Collection Art | CraftyPaws

Mr. CraftyPaws’ grandmother had a gorgeous collection of vintage feathers that were from her days working in the French-American fashion house of Lilly DachĂ© that specialized in millinery designs.  After celebrating her 101st birthday last December, she passed away, and my hubby’s uncle kindly sent this collection to me.

I have been thinking long and hard about how to honor my hubby’s grandmother and highlight these beautiful feathers in a lasting and impactful way. I finally decided I could achieve this by curating the mass of feathers and displaying them in shadow boxes. I gathered 4 shadow boxes (2 from my stash that I could re-purpose and 2 from Michaels when they had a 60% off sale) and lined the backs of all of them with some remnant linen fabric that I upcycled from old Ikea curtains.

Then it was a matter of trying different combinations of feathers. I wanted to play with colors, textures, and general grouping shapes. I hot glued some into shaped clusters, and grouping others into rows after carefully wrapping the bases with black wired ribbon. I “cheated” a little and dyed one dingy clump of white feathers into a teal/aqua color with Tattered Angel and DecoArt shimmer mist, and I added one peacock feather assembly I bought from Michaels just to brighten up the collection and add some pops of blue (my favorite color). In the end, I wanted to create home decor art that would communicate the importance of these vintage feathers to our family history while still fitting in with our contemporary aesthetic. I think by combining, lining up, and grouping the feathers in these shadow boxes, I was able to do just that.

The following is a video share of these shadow box art pieces:

These feather shadow boxes are being entered into the following challenges:
MFT Sketch Challenge #386

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Creatalicious Anything Goes with Optional All that Glitters Challenge
Card Mania Anything But a Card Challenge
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes with Optional Mainly Blue Challenge
Crafty Gals Corner Anything Goes Challenge
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge

 

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