Hello All,
As promised to you, hereby the explanation of how to make your own quill of a birds feather. In this case I have chosen to work with a white (see photo no. 1) and brown goose primary wing feather.
First Id like to point out that only the hollow part of the feather pen is used. This is the piece beneath the barbs towards the tip of the shaft. The feather at this particular part is not round but oval.
Something that will prove to be a nice incidental circumstance and, as we shall see, quite an important aspect of feather quill making.
The illustrations show how (in my opinion) a birds quill - similar to the ones seen in Leones Tutor (1767) - was made at the time. Also when going from there, one can easily make quills ā la those propagated by Gervasio (1767) or Corrette (1772).
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