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Tips
for wearing plumes:
See advice for wearing and/or
attaching featherwork to your powwow regalia.
Women's
plumes
Men's plumes
Your own plumes
 How to
wear your women's plumes:
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Don't laugh; You'd be surprised how many photos
I see of customers wearing their plumes backwards!
Plumes have a natural curve to them. Whether wearing in a crown or
barrette, please turn your plumes so the tips curve over your head as shown
in the photo. |
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Pocket
Method:
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Ties
Method:
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Barrette
Method:
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Glue
a square of buckskin directly to the backside of a barrette, leaving an
un-glued channel down the center for quill insertion. This method will hold your plumes very securely. |
Use
thin buckskin thongs to tie your plumes to the backside of your barrette.
The ties are easily adjusted to hold your plume at any height you desire.
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Use
2 barrettes to secure the plume directly to your hair, then if desired, wear your
beadwork on top to hide the barrettes.
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How to attach
grass dancer antennae to a leather roach spreader:
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1)
grass
dancer plumes by walela49 have ~4" (or more) exposed springwire for attachment. |
2) punch
holes in your spreader where desired.
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3)
bend
each wire at 1 horizontal right angle and 1 vertical right angle; cut away
excess. |
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4)
insert
wires as shown.
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5) secure
wires to spreader.
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6) plumes
will stand up when roach and spreader are tied on securely. |
*PLEASE NOTE: these photos show an
outdated style of grass dancer antennae which have white buckskin wrap all the
way down the wires. I no longer wrap buckskin all the way down the wires.
My newer antennae have bare springwire stems below the threadwork.
Attachment is still the same though, by bending your antennae wires near the cut
ends, and securing them to the spreader as shown.
How to attach antennae to a metal spreader
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| Brass
and silver grass dancer roach spreaders made by Jim LaQuay of laquay's
custom metalwork designs |
1)
bend antenna wire at right angle. Remember to measure how high you
want your antennae to stick up before you bend the wires! |
2)
insert wire into metal tube, |
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bend inserted wire a bit to slip past other tube and pull wire securely
into position as shown, |
4)
bend the pulled-thru wire at right angle to slip into place behind metal
cup, |
5)
follow steps again for other antenna, |
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cut any wire that is too long and extends past spreader edge. Adjust
upright wires if necessary to achieve proper position for dancing, |
7)
metal cups allow wires to be unhooked for storage without complete
removal, |
8)
with wire tips unhooked, antennae will rotate back and fold down for
storage. |
How
to attach your own plumes to my threadwrapped stems:
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| 1.)
What you need: threadwrapped stem by walela49 (see this),
your own plume, scissors, glue, wire cutters. |
2.)
Snip off tip of quill, |
3.) cut
away excess wire if needed (dry test first by inserting wire into your
quill to see how far it goes), |
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| 4.) fill
quill with glue (I suggest superglue gel), |
5*.) add
a tiny bit of glue to top of threadwrap if needed,* |
6.) insert
wire into quill, |
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disclaimer |
| 7.) slide
quill down until it touches threadwrap and allow glue to dry. |
*.) if
needed, use a removable paper cone to hold base fluffs out of the way
while gluing. |
This
method is NOT how walela49 builds "legal plumes".
Buy ready-made legal plumes here. |
w49
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A
note from the artist:
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I am not an enrolled member of a federally recognized tribe, therefore I sell my
work as Native American style. I always disclose this
information to comply with the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990.
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