Decorative Feathers
Carnmeal Cottage provide from stock a comprehensive range of decorative feathers for use in bridal and craft work.
All of our range of feathers are supplied from the food chain or as part of natural "moulting" and no animal is harmed for it's feathers. Although they may have exotic names such as Marabout Feathers, Diamond Feathers, Arrow Feathers etc these are all common feathers; treated, cleaned, dyed and prepared for use in craft, millinery or for decorations.
Feathers are now commonly used in place of flowers in "floral" arrangements. An arrangement of Ostrich feathers is simple yet very dramatic. As in a flower arrangement always try to use them in 3's, 5's or 7's. These are ideal to decorate functions or wedding receptions to creat a real impact.
Large Ostrich Feathers
Large Ostrich Feathers are over 24" tall and come in a massive range of colours. See our colour chart. We carry a large stock so would expect to be able to supply all your feathers immediately. Ostrich Feathers are ideal to create that 1920's look with Ostrich feathers in the hat or hair in bold, bright colours.
Mini Prime ostrich feathers
The smaller ostrich feather is called a mini prime. These feathers, and the Marabout Feathers come in the same range of colours so can be combined to form a co-ordinated design.
Marabou Feathers
Marabout feathers are now used as an alternative to flowers or mixed in with flowers in bridal bouquets. Marabout Flowers are soft and fluffy, however with a good quill marabout feathers can be wired into any bridal bouquet or arrangement. Marabout Colour Chart.
Ostrich Plumes
Feathers from the Ostrich are not only supplied as large blousy feathers. They can also be seen in Ostrich Plumes. A delicate piece of the Ostrich Feather mounted on a paper coated wire. An ideal decoration to include in a bridal bouquet or as a hat feather. With 12 feather "picks" per packet these are an inexpensive alternative to a floral decoration.
Diamond Feathers
The most common feathers used in the design of your hat and bridal decorations are the Stripped Coq or Diamond Feathers. These are simply feathers stripped of their plume except for a small amount at it's tip forming a diamond. This is available either in natural diamond feathers or dyed diamond feathers. The dyed feathers come in a large range of colours. Refer to our colour chart.
Many of our feathers come on picks, so they can be easily incorporated into craft or bridal designs as well as hat decorative ideas, and can be used on a range of products, from headdresses and centrepieces to crafts and card making. Most commonly used feathers in craft and favours are things like our fluff feathers, also available in cut fluff feathers, along with narrow feathers and ruffle feathers. The feathers which are usually used for hat and hair accessories, are things like our pheasant feather curls, fern feathes, and wild feathers
.Table and floral centrepieces are often finished off nicely using feathers to add some colour and texture to the displays. Arrow feathers, and ostrich arrow feathers are often used, depending on the height of the arrangement along with stripped ostrich feather quills and our dyed, natural, and sword peacock feathers.
We also stock some fun and colourfull feathers like our jeweled feathers, fine feathersand pheasant feathers, and also we have some natural quinefowl quils and plumage.
If you are looking for something fun to wear, we stock feather mounts and broaches as well as feather garlands, fluff feather garlands and even a feather boa, or if you prefer, we stock feather and ostrich feather trims which are ideal to attatch to clothing or soft furnishings.
If you are looking for small gift ideas, we supply turkey quill ball point pens, or if you really want to spoil them, ostrich feather quill pens.
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