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Everything you need to build 4.5-metre wings

A printable checklist of every material and every tool that goes into a pair of articulated dance wings — the kind that open and close with your hands. Take it to the shops and tick things off.

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White articulated dance wings with a 4.5 metre wingspan, worn and opened by hand
What is on it

The whole shopping list, on two pages

Twelve materials

Foam and isolon for the structure, steel cable and chain for the movement, felt, minky and boa for the surface. Grouped by what they do, with the sizes that matter.

Twelve tools

What cuts, what heats, what measures. Including the two most people do not own and cannot improvise around.

Four things to know first

Why you measure yourself before buying foam, why this is two shopping trips rather than one, and roughly how long a first pair takes.

Close view of layered feathers on a handmade dance wing

The list is the easy part

Knowing what to buy is not the same as knowing what to do with it. The wings in these photographs are built by a maker who has been designing and making them for over fifteen years, and the full course shows every step of it.

Twenty-one build steps, twenty video lessons, three printable pattern files. Sizes L, M and S. One payment, lifetime access.

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