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Feathers UK - United in Providing the Finest Feathers for Any and Every Occasion.

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When you buy feathers UK supplied, you buy feathers that are both unique and uniform. Whatever your requirements there are feather suppliers in the heart of the capital that have been selling feathers since the era of Downton Abbey.
Feathers for all seasons and occasions

Everyone enjoys having a metaphorical feather in their cap but there are few occasions when men are seen actually wearing feathers; however, women and feathers have never been closer. Today, it is not just ballerinas from the Bolshoi that wear feathers whilst dancing Swan Lake, women from all walks of life are finding that the uniquely wonderful properties of feathers can be used in many imaginative ways.

Long feathers such as those supplied by pheasants have a familiar stripy pattern and can be bought from leading online stores for around five pounds each. Large feathers such as the burnt ostrich are taken from farmed ostriches and are often used by modern day milliners. These plumes can be up to two feet in length, are usually black or cream, but can easily be dyed to a bespoke colour. The burning of the excess plumage gives ostrich feathers a lighter, more delicate effect.

Peacock feathers, especially the tips, offer unique elegance and are often bought for adorning headpieces. It is the mix of nature’s peacock plumage that makes the peacock such a special source of supply for feathers in the UK. When you buy feathers such as those from peacocks, there is usually a choice of available colours but cream and pale blue are two of the most popular.

Fashion designers, interior designers, florists and individuals are all looking at how they can use the phenomenal variety of nature’s plumage to augment fashion accessories such as handbags and hats; or to complement a magnificent floral display; or to be turned into a feather display in their own right or for long ostrich feathers to be simply affixed to a wall the way swords used to be hung in the old days.

Birds grow plumes for flight, for style and for warmth and although humans do not buy feathers for flight, they are most certainly bought to add considerable style and also for warmth. Down keeps birds warm and down is used in pillows and duvets, keeping people as warm as the down kept the original owners. Other ways of using feathers to keep warm can be in augmenting lined shawls for women although the plumes that are used for feather shawls are usually selected for a mix of length and fluffiness. A woman wearing a shawl made from the skin of a rare animal is unacceptable these days but a lined feather-shawl is a work of art that is appealing to the eye, very warm and delightfully soft to the touch.

Many birds are going the way of the dodo but the plumage that is sold in the heart of London is usually from farmed birds such as pheasants, peacocks, turkeys, ducks and ostriches or from birds that are in plentiful supply. Masks, boas, shawls, hats and floral displays are all the better for being feathered in a variety of colours, with edges burned or plumes stripped to their tips. However, nature has already done a pretty good job giving birds a magical coating and so natural plumes long or fluffy, tufted and multi-coloured, provide a fashion accessory that is truly magnificent in its engineering for flight and its style for beauty.

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The Ostrich Feather Manufacturing Company http://www.ostrichfeather.co.uk/ was created in the City of London in the 1920s and offers a fine range of feather products and imitation feathers. A major exporter of peacock feathers, feather products and fashions, the Ostrich Feather Manufacturing Company has gone from making and selling feather hats to creating a wide mix of feather products from feathers supplied by ostriches, geese, peacocks, chickens, turkeys and coque birds.

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