Kingfisher by Ildiko Szabo

Author:Ildiko Szabo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reaktion Books

We watched breathlessly the making of kingfisher feather jewelry . . . You get one of the bird’s wings if you buy a pin, so that the world outside of China will believe it. I bought a kingfisher pin. The foundation of the pin is cheap silver. Then the wonder worker, a patient, spectacled Chinaman takes a single hair from out of the bird’s wing, draws it through a bit of glue and lays it on the silver foundation, then another hair, which he lays beside the first, then another and another and another, endlessly and head achingly and eye-tiringly, until he has laid the filaments from the feather of the bird’s wing so closely together that they look like a piece of enamel.8

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