The Story
A quiet inheritance from falconry.
The Falconer's Veil began with a simple observation: a falcon's feather, once shed, is rarely looked at closely again.
Falconry is a discipline of patience, close observation and long relationships between a handler and a bird. It produces, as a quiet by-product, feathers — moulted naturally, catalogued, and often set aside.
The Falconer's Veil takes those feathers and gives them a second, considered life: set into a hand-wrapped frame, surrounded by a woven pattern built stitch by stitch, and hung as an object in its own right rather than a fragment of one.
Field Note
Point of Ayr, North Wales
Naturally shed feathers, collected during falconry work.
Why one of one
Each object is made individually, not as part of a run. The feathers available at any one time are finite and specific — a piece is designed around the material in hand, not the other way round. When a composition is collected, it is not repeated. It remains in the archive as a record of what was made, and nothing else takes its exact place.