Editing Feather (section)

===In religion and culture===
[[File: San Isidro labrador.jpg|thumb|left|[[Mexican featherwork]] painting of [[Isidore the Laborer]] made from duck, hummingbird, and canary feathers. This style of painting, popular during the [[New Spain|Novohispanic]] era, integrates featherwork of pre-Hispanic origin with Christian iconography. 18th century, [[Museo Soumaya]]]]
[[Eagle]] feathers have great cultural and spiritual value to [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] in the [[United States]] and [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] peoples in [[Canada]] as religious objects. In the United States, the religious use of eagle and [[hawk]] feathers is governed by the [[eagle feather law]], a federal law limiting the possession of eagle feathers to certified and enrolled members of federally recognized Native American tribes.

In South America, brews made from the feathers of [[condor]]s are used in traditional medications.<ref>{{Cite journal|first= Steve |last=Froemming|title=Traditional use of the Andean flicker (Colaptes rupicola) as a galactagogue in the Peruvian Andes|journal=Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine| year=2006|volume=2|page=23 |doi=10.1186/1746-4269-2-23|pmid=16677398|pmc=1484469 |doi-access=free }}</ref> In India, feathers of the [[Indian peacock]] have been used in traditional medicine for snakebite, infertility, and coughs.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1= Murari| first1= S.K.|last2= Frey|first2= F.J.|last3= Frey|first3= B.M.|last4= Gowda|first4= T.V.|last5= Vishwanath|first5= B.S.|year=2005|title=Use of ''Pavo cristatus'' feather extract for the better management of snakebites: Neutralization of inflammatory reactions|journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology|volume=99|issue=2|pages=229–237|doi=10.1016/j.jep.2005.02.027|pmid=15894132}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Traditional knowledge on zootherapeutic uses by the Saharia tribe of Rajasthan, India|last1= Mahawar |first1=M. M. | last2=Jaroli |first2=D. P. |journal=Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine|year=2007|volume=3|page=25|doi=10.1186/1746-4269-3-25| pmid= 17547781|pmc=1892771 |doi-access= free }}</ref>

Members of Scotland's [[Clan Campbell]] are known to wear feathers on their bonnets to signify authority within the clan. [[Scottish clan chief|Clan chiefs]] wear three, chieftains<!--How does this differ from clan chief?--> wear two and an [[armiger]] wears one. Any member of the clan who does not meet the criteria is not authorized to wear feathers as part of traditional garb and doing so is considered presumptuous.<ref>{{cite web |title=Scottish Highland Dress: Clan Campbell |url= https://www.ccsna.org/scottish-highland-dress#NO%20FEATHERS%20IN%20YOUR%20CAP |publisher=Clan Campbell Society |access-date=10 November 2020}}</ref>

During the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, there was a booming international trade in plumes for extravagant women's hats and other headgear (including in [[Victorian fashion]]). [[Frank Chapman (ornithologist)|Frank Chapman]] noted in 1886 that feathers of as many as 40 species of birds were used in about three-fourths of the 700 ladies' hats that he observed in New York City.<ref>Doughty, Robin W. ''Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation, A Study in Nature Protection''. University of California Press. Page 197.</ref> For instance, South American [[hummingbird]] feathers were used in the past to dress some of the miniature birds featured in [[singing bird box]]es. This trade caused severe losses to bird populations (for example, [[egret]]s and [[whooping crane]]s). 

Conservationists led campaigns against the use of feathers in hats, contributing to important measures for environmental protection and to changes in fashion. Examples are the creation of the [[Royal Society for the Protection of Birds]] in the UK in 1889, or the passage of the [[Lacey Act]] in USA in 1900,  The ornamental feather market then largely collapsed.<ref>{{cite web| last1= Ehrlich| first1= Paul R.| last2= Dobkin| first2= David S.| last3= Wheye| first3= Darryl| year= 1988| url= http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Plume_Trade.html| title= Plume Trade| publisher= Stanford University| url-status= live| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080930070559/http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Plume_Trade.html| archive-date= 30 September 2008}}</ref><ref>[http://americanhistory.si.edu/feather/ftfa.htm Feather trade] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080623044023/http://americanhistory.si.edu/feather/ftfa.htm |date=23 June 2008 }}, Smithsonian Institution</ref>

More recently, rooster plumage has become a popular trend as a [[hairstyle]] accessory, with feathers formerly used as fishing lures now being used to provide color and style to hair.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2015246435_flyfash.html | work=The Seattle Times | first=Jessie L. | last=Bonner | title=High fashion or bait? Fly ties now hair extensions | date=6 June 2011 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610110027/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2015246435_flyfash.html | archive-date=10 June 2011 }}</ref>

Feather products manufacturing in Europe has declined in the last 60 years, mainly due to competition from Asia.
Feathers have adorned hats at many prestigious events such as weddings and Ladies Day at racecourses (Royal Ascot).