Handcrafting shuttlecocks from goose feathers requires patience, skill, and precision. Each feather is carefully selected, shaped, and assembled to ensure durability and perfect flight balance. This ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In Jadurberia village, the shuttlecock capital of India, workers have been making feathered badminton birdies for generations. But the rise of mechanized assembly ...

The equipment: The net, a stringed badminton racket (it’s smaller than a tennis racket) and a shuttlecock, which is half a ball with feathers (or plastic, faux feathers) attached to the top of it.