Stunning Christmas Ideas using Birds Feathers In the UK

Of all the many traditions connected with the celebration of Christmas, the decoration of our homes with the likes of holly and mistletoe is perhaps the most visually striking yet simultaneously most mysterious. It’s hard to see, after all, exactly where putting a small tree covered in lights in your room fits into the Christmas story, and yet traditions such as the tree, fairly lights and tinsel have become as much a part of the celebrations as the exchanging of gifts and singing of carols. 

When you’re a small child, the only kind of Christmas decoration you can possibly conceive of revolves around glitter, tinsel and baubles, and the gaudier the better. As you grow, however, whilst still wanting to mark the time of the year by decorating your home, the chances are, particularly if you otherwise have a cultured eye for interior design, that you’ll want to find a decorative motif which is a little more subtle. If you’ve scoured the traditional outlets in vain, looking for something decorative, celebratory but a bit more stylish and muted, then it may be time to think a little bit outside the box and shop online for feathers in the UK.

There are many reasons why feathers make excellent Christmas decorations. The first of these, of course, is that they’re highly attractive to look at. Not only that, but the range of colours and sizes in which they come means that they can easily be selected to blend in or contrast with the rest of your Christmas decoration scheme.  If you’ve ever seen anyone wearing feather boas, then you’ll be aware of the way in which the feathers dance and shift in the air, catching the light and changing in appearance as they move. Not only does that mean that they’ll look stunning, but the fact that they are incredibly light means that they can be hung from the branches of a tree, for example, without putting undue strain on them.

If you spend a few minutes searching online then you’ll be bound to find lots of ostrich feathers decoration ideas to set your imagination racing and provide the inspiration to completely makeover the appearance of your Christmas. You could, for example, use an ostrich fringe as a kind of streamer or instead of a rope of tinsel, completely transforming the appearance of your home, but doing so in a manner which is tasteful, subtle and stylish.  

As another alternative to using feathers in their own right, you could approach them from a craft based angle and utilise them in the construction of your own hand made decorations. Get your children involved, and have those sticking multi-coloured feathers onto budget priced baubles or onto shapes cut out of card. A bespoke snowflake constructed from white feathers will be truly stunning in a manner which shop bought decorations couldn’t hope to match, and the fact that you’ve made it for yourself will mean that it’s treasured in its’ own right for years to come. You might even choose to take things a step further by trying to construct your own angel made of feathers for the top of the tree, or incorporate stunningly visual feathers into the make-up of the wreath you put on your front door.

If you’re interested in the idea of working with feathers to create unique Christmas decorations, then the first step is to see what you can buy from a feather shop in the UK. Shops such as this are highly specialised and packed with staff who will find it a pleasure to help you find whatever it is that you’re looking for.  The lightness and delicacy of a marabou feather, for example, particularly if it’s white, means that a selection of them scattered about the room creates, stunningly, the effect of newly fallen snow. Once you’ve used feathers, you’ll never want to go back to tinsel and glitter again.