What is Tapirage?

Tapirage is a technique that is used to change the natural colors of the bird. This technique appeared among South American American, who practiced it for centuries before the arrival of Europeans. Some curious Europeans also accepted Tapirage, and later used it to deceive consumers in terms of real feathers, such as Canary. Museums with artifacts from Central America and the Caribbean sometimes have Tapirage examples, usually integrated into larger works such as feathered tapestries and caps. These secretions apparently have chemical compounds that can cause color change, so when a bird develops fresh feathers, it will be colored yellow, orange or red. It is not entirely disproportionate to assume that the American has taken this on it and decided to do a little experimentation to achieve the desired feathers of feathers for various craft projects, although as early experimenters landed to use toxic secretions from frogs is a bit of a mystery.

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Tapirage process has been described in several contemporary texts, and examples of unusually sprayed feathers in the collections of museums show that it was actually a real practice. In addition to being used to cultivate color feathers for specific projects, it was also apparently used to change the natural colors of birds, so they looked like quite different (and more valuable) species. European canary breeders were sometimes accused of selling birds who were subjected to tapiring, for example, undesirable consumers.

Aftslying about this complicated process for changing the color of the bird would be guided to think why the American simply did not color feathers because they were certainly aware of natural dyes. Tapirage may have provided a more true, long -term dye that actually penetrated the whole feathers, rather than the color of the external. Colors such as yellow and oranges can also be difficult to achieve by usingNatural dyes, so tapirage can be the most reliable technique of dying. Or maybe American has just got experimental.