Clean and sterilize bird feathers

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Nao

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A couple of years ago I bought quite a lot of bird feathers from China on eBay, which I realised afterwards wasn't the best of ideas but having already bought them I figured I might as well use them. They have been sitting in a plastic shopping bag in a corner with their packages in various degrees of unwrapping since then because I figured I needed to properly sterilise and clean them but didn't really know the best way to go about it and I don't want to catch anything by handling the feathers the wrong way. I did some research a while ago but that didn't really help.

So what do you think? Anybody having any experience with this? Maybe links to reliable sites? Is there a good way to clean and sterilise the feathers or is it a lost cause and I better just throw the whole lot in the trash or the fireplace?
 
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