ISTORY
OF FEATHERMANIA
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ISTORY
OF FEATHERMANIA
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This
site is dedicated to all featherlovers and future feathermaniacs.
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The
history of feathers and the history of human development is
long and interwoven. Feathers have crossed the way of human evolution
ever since the first feather landed on the face of the earth. And it will
go on until the last bird will shed its feathers.
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Feathers have been used as jewelry in almost every culture on earth. Over time humans have made more and more sophisticated use of their ruffled friend´s hair. Feathers have been used in the construction of arrows, magical tools, engrave objects and even writing tools. They have also found their way into many stories and mythologies in the form of winged creatures and beasts. |
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Feathers
can be found everywhere in our daily lives - even in our language. You
can be "as light as a feather" or you can be "tared
and feathered".
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In
German you can even "have feathers" - which means that you are
afraid of something.
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Today
feathers are not only our cats´ favorite toys, they are used as
accessories like fans or hats too. Feathers can be found in our beds and
clothes or round our necks as tame feather boas or wise dreamcatcher.
We give our kids wings made out of feathers to make them look like angles
and we like to wear a feather head-dress during carnival season. And what
would robin hood be without a feather on his cap? Probably just a hood
like all the rest.
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From a zoological point of view feathers are horn objects which correspond with the scales of fish. They are used to protect the animal from wet and cold and of course they are the little extra which makes most of their owners fly. We may have bigger brains, we may be more conscious beings, but we will never fly on our own. For we lack the little colorful extras every sparrow has in its basic equipment - feathers. |
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Touch
the feather to get back to the top
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Origins
of pictures featured on this page which are not self-made or of unknown
origin are referred to on the various subject pages.
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