Bronze peacock herl

[11foot5]

Has anyone experience (successful or otherwise!) of trying to turn green peacock herl to bronze herl . I'm led to believe it can be done by exposing it to direct sunlight for several weeks.....not on a windowsill inside?
If so, do insects / birds have a go at it while it hangs outside??!!
Would be interesting to hear of your experiences........

[arkle]

To turn it true bronze takes ages as we just don't have the intensity of sunshine here. From what I recall some people have left a quill or two on a window for a couple of years only to find very little difference, if any.

Steve Cooper often has the real thing in stock, or you can buy peacock eyes dyed bright pink for a good subs.

I don't know if "the management" would be very pleased if you decided to monopolize window sills with feathers for that period of time.

[flytire]

heres a little something on bronze peacock herl from john mclain at feathersmc. (as john states, its not about sunshine)

Feathersmc.com: Bronze Peacock Herl

[buzzr]

I've left the green peacock exposed to sunlight fot a couple of months, no difference. The closest I got to bronze peacock is the dyed magenta stuff.

buzzr