This is also a perfect opportunity to have fun with textures, as the sleek plastic will contrast perfectly with some softer, more spring - like
materials like feathers.
Experiment with craft
materials like feathers, Chinese knotted buttons and even Sea Shell beads to jazz up a simple bag creation or design.
Not exact matches
Use half the pockets for collage
materials (kids this age
like gluing things together and working with different textures), such as colored glue sticks,
feathers, cut - out shapes, vacation postcards, pipe cleaners, Popsicle sticks, and pom - poms.
It's made from overlapping strips of flexible
material, layered somewhat
like feathers or fish scales, allowing for the pieces to move across each other as the wing flexes, while still providing a smooth outer surface.
Scientists from the University of Southampton have revealed that
feather shafts are made of a multi-layered fibrous composite
material, much
like carbon fibre, which allows the
feather to bend and twist to cope with the stresses of flight.
The
material is really as gentle as rose petals and lightweight
like a
feather.
The
materials were chosen carefully to encapsulate the momentary feeling of marveling such beauty,
like how Mongolian fur and delicate ostrich
feathers were used to personify the movement, rustle and texture of the autumn leaves.
While trendy textures
like sequins and
feathers can be fun, classic
materials can make an equally interesting statement.
Premium quality fabrics, pure silks,
feathers and millinery
material come from shops in London, where I
like to travel.
Collection Rotation: Materiality January 17 — June 12, 2017 Adjoining Vostell Concrete, this presentation features a selection of works from the Smart's collection that make use of non-traditional
materials like food and
feathers.
Also color — a dazzling palette of candy -
like hues — and
materials — a thrift store tornado of secondhand clothing, cloth,
feathers, glitter, beads, baubles and all other manner of found objects.
The ensemble, created specifically for The Museum of Modern Art, brings together sculptures that represent Bove's particular artistic vocabulary, marrying modernist forms
like cubes, rectangles, and cylinders with a wide variety of
materials — from weighty I - beams and smoothly curved powder - coated steel to organic driftwood, seashells, and peacock
feathers.
Also, watch out for new plastics coming out: Companies
like Tyson Foods are experimenting with keratin protein found in chicken
feathers to produce plastics, adhesives and non-woven
materials.
Professor Acda is quoted as saying his composite boards, which he hopes to have perfected by the end of the year, would be «resistant to insect infestation such as termites because the
feathers are inedible,» as well as suggesting they'd be less flammable and combustible when compared to conventional cement and wood - fibre composite boards.Seems
like he has plenty of raw
material to work with given that the Philippines poultry industry is said to dump 2.4 million tonnes of
feathers annually, mostly through burning and burial.
(
like the circuit board shown made partly from chicken
feathers) One waste
material that we have way too much of is Carbon Dioxide; Geoff Coates of Cornell is making plastic that is almost 50 % CO2 by weight.