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[Workshop Secrets] is a series of videos produced by Connaissance des Arts to highlight craftsmen and their know-how. -------------------- In this episode, we take you to meet the visual artist Nelly Saunier who has been practicing featherwork for over thirty years. Known since ancient times, featherwork is defined as the ancient art of preparing bird feathers and using them in the making of objects or ornaments. Nelly Saunier has brought this technique back into fashion, which she taught for 26 years at the Octave Feuillet school. She has teamed up with creators from the worlds of haute couture, design, cinema, and also fine jewelry and watchmaking, while at the same time creating personal artistic works exhibited around the world. -------------------- Today, centuries-old crafts are becoming rare professions! For ten years, Connaissance des Arts has been defending these often overlooked professions, at the crossroads of the hand and the mind, of artistic craftsmanship and creation. Today, it is necessary to mobilize so that artistic craftsmen are recognized as true creators and that the necessary means are implemented for the transmission and perpetuation of their know-how.