featherbone

Featherbone was manufactured from the quills of feathers.

Warren Featherbone Company.

Some of the most popular alternatives were cork strips, cording, watchspring steel, Coraline, and Featherbone.

Featherbone was used as a less expensive substitute for whalebone and was constructed from flattened strips of goose quill woven together with yarn to form a long strip (Doyle, 1997:232).

The name Featherbone stems from the Warren Featherbone Company-a turn of the century American family owned corporation that has far reaching effect on American culture, nature and arts.

In 2000, Clark and his partner David Fink purchased the old Featherbone factory [6] in Three Oaks, Michigan, which once produced corset stays, and renovated it to house the Acorn Theatre.

Three Oaks is also home to the Warren Featherbone Factory, which was built over a century ago to strip turkey feathers of their quills to use in women's garments of the era, such as corsets, which used "stiffeners".

Uncle John calls them "mollycoddles and social drones...." The leader of the group is Algernon Tobey, "the fourth son of old Lord Featherbone," who "got into a disgraceful mess in London some years ago."

The woods are named for Edward Warren (1847-1919), the inventor of the featherbone corset (which replaced the whalebone corset with turkey bones and secured his fortune), who bought 150 acres of the woods and 250 acres of the dunes.