Noc Bay Learning Circle shows how to straighten Turkey feathers to be more like Eagle feathers for Native American craft projects such as dance bustles.
Very helpful! I'm doing my own taxidermy work on a turkey and needed some ideas to help straighten the wing feathers and this worked perfect! Thanks for taking the time to post this!
Wow! The turkey feathers bent shape have always bothered me, now i know how to straighten them to look more like eagle feathers. This really helped a lot.
Not sure why people are asking weird questions when they can just Google the answers, like feathers for quill pens. This was an excellent video. Thank you so much for posting this :)
Thank you for making this video! You answered my question in a very clear and concise fashion. I found a nice feather that I wanted to use as a wind indicator, but it is far too bent. Now I think it will work. Nice to build something far better than can be manufactured with plastic. Again, thank you!
Reggie Brinkley they were steamed with water or did a long soak in a water with a very weak lye solution using white ash to help soften the spine and then they would would be shaped and then pressed. sometime rocks were used on the fletch to help keep the shape and allowed to be slowly air dried in the sun. most preparations were made in spring for obvious reasons. for my people, the chiricahua, this how we did this. but many tribes had many variations of this same theme. it's very hard for westerners to understand truly how complex and how varied traditions amongst the over 500 recognized tribes (and the countless dozens who are are so small as to not be recognized) performed simple tasks such as straightening a feather. but, as a generality, steam or a water soak were the overwhelming majority of how feathers were straightened with regalia. some were dried quickly, some slowly. the thing to remember is that there really is not "authentic" way, as each of our tribes had their own "authentic" way.
One ADDITIONAL tip that may help to the viewers of this video,IS: After the Feather is taken OUT of it being "Pressed" together...........Take a can of "Spray-Starch" that is normally used on shirts after they are dry-cleaned,and spray the Feather with a light-coating of THAT and THAT should help it maintain it's "firmness" and straightness for a longer period of time!!
Hello, thank you for demonstrating the techniques, they are very helpful. I was wondering if you plan on making a video on painting turkey feathers to imitate eagle feathers. I see various types of painted imitation eagle feathers and was hoping to learn the different techniques. Thank you
once the feathers are straightened will they stay that way permanently or will the feather become curved again after say a few weeks or months.I paint on Canada goose feathers and would like to straighten them for easier painting and framing.Your video was very helpfull...thanks for posting it.
Not the most eloquent sentence but I get your drift. However scientist have made fake feathers out of carbon nanotubes about 10 years ago. They may not be shaped like a birds feather but they have the same complex microscopic structure and mechanical properties. It was this break through that has now allowed us to experiment with nano sized space craft that would use such feathers as solar or light sails. The owner of Google, Mark Zuckerberg partnered with Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking are even putting together a program to use thousands of such spacecraft to travel to Alpha Centauri. The feathers are one of the sail concepts for the nano craft. www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nano-spacecraft-yuri-milner_us_5709b86ce4b0142232493a18
That's gorgeous! I had no idea you could straighten a feather.
Very helpful! I'm doing my own taxidermy work on a turkey and needed some ideas to help straighten the wing feathers and this worked perfect! Thanks for taking the time to post this!
Wow! The turkey feathers bent shape have always bothered me, now i know how to straighten them to look more like eagle feathers. This really helped a lot.
Not sure why people are asking weird questions when they can just Google the answers, like feathers for quill pens. This was an excellent video. Thank you so much for posting this :)
Thx! I used my flattening iron because i don't have a regular iron. It it worked great!
Thank you for making this video! You answered my question in a very clear and concise fashion. I found a nice feather that I wanted to use as a wind indicator, but it is far too bent. Now I think it will work. Nice to build something far better than can be manufactured with plastic. Again, thank you!
I saw that you can also use steam to fix damaged feathers in case you don't want to cut the feather. I'd likely do it before flattening
Great guidance to the art of straightening Feathers.
It's so kind shareing native ideas with the world.beautiful rich native culture.
awesome video I used this for my feather paintings
I seen feathers soaked in water to straighten them out. its a long process but is more traditional.
were they just air dried
Reggie Brinkley they were steamed with water or did a long soak in a water with a very weak lye solution using white ash to help soften the spine and then they would would be shaped and then pressed. sometime rocks were used on the fletch to help keep the shape and allowed to be slowly air dried in the sun. most preparations were made in spring for obvious reasons. for my people, the chiricahua, this how we did this. but many tribes had many variations of this same theme. it's very hard for westerners to understand truly how complex and how varied traditions amongst the over 500 recognized tribes (and the countless dozens who are are so small as to not be recognized) performed simple tasks such as straightening a feather. but, as a generality, steam or a water soak were the overwhelming majority of how feathers were straightened with regalia. some were dried quickly, some slowly. the thing to remember is that there really is not "authentic" way, as each of our tribes had their own "authentic" way.
One ADDITIONAL tip that may help to the viewers of this video,IS: After the Feather is taken OUT of it being "Pressed" together...........Take a can of "Spray-Starch" that is normally used on shirts after they are dry-cleaned,and spray the Feather with a light-coating of THAT and THAT should help it maintain it's "firmness" and straightness for a longer period of time!!
Thank you a very useful tip , greetings from Sevilla Spain
Super useful, thank you!
This feathers are wonderful
Hello, thank you for demonstrating the techniques, they are very helpful. I was wondering if you plan on making a video on painting turkey feathers to imitate eagle feathers. I see various types of painted imitation eagle feathers and was hoping to learn the different techniques. Thank you
Thank you for making this video! 👍🖐👋
Mesmerezing voice....
once the feathers are straightened will they stay that way permanently or will the feather become curved again after say a few weeks or months.I paint on Canada goose feathers and would like to straighten them for easier painting and framing.Your video was very helpfull...thanks for posting it.
Thank you!
thank you very much
for the video lesson
my name shibata
im from brazil
Brilliant video
Thank you so much for sharing, ;O)
I HAVE BEEN Wanting to know what FEATHERS to use .thank u.
Lindo trabalho! Obrigada ☺️
I'm not sure if we mvskoke straightened our feathers or not
Great video,Thank You*
good for fletching :)
Thank you. =)
Very helpful!
Are these the same techniques for real eagle feathers or only artificial?
Turkey feathers are also natural, so this straightening technique will work for any feather, no doubt.
Very interesting thank you!
how would people straighten feathers long ago? or would they just deal with crooked feathers?
ninja man they would steam and press using water and rocks.
ninja man heated rocks and warm water
Merci
i actually am trying to get my feathers to curve the opposite way
Soaking and shaping? Maybe steam and shaping for a faster route, but you have to be more attentive.
Can you please make a video on Painting feathers?
😱😱😱 thanks
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I have that exact same iron.
HAD to laugh...😀 must be something in .....
Geeez...7 yrs.ago!. Just noticed. Be a miracle IF u respond to my post.
What kind of paint was used to dye these
How you paint the feather i mean with what king of paint,mate
acrylic paints,
Can you send me this feather?
I am a turkey
But ı don't hawe feathers
*WE ARE TURK*🇹🇷🇹🇷
What are the feathers used for quills?
I heard turkey feathers are good?
What temperature is the iron on?
Aho !!!
That question makes no sense.
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Bet thee scientists cant even make same fake feathers.... but no smart designs... :)
That made no sense.
Not the most eloquent sentence but I get your drift. However scientist have made fake feathers out of carbon nanotubes about 10 years ago. They may not be shaped like a birds feather but they have the same complex microscopic structure and mechanical properties. It was this break through that has now allowed us to experiment with nano sized space craft that would use such feathers as solar or light sails. The owner of Google, Mark Zuckerberg partnered with Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking are even putting together a program to use thousands of such spacecraft to travel to Alpha Centauri. The feathers are one of the sail concepts for the nano craft.
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nano-spacecraft-yuri-milner_us_5709b86ce4b0142232493a18
oh this video is so messed up against Native American culture