Making a featherie was a tedious and time-consuming process. The feathers were boiled and softened before they were stuffed into the leather pouch. A standard featherie used a gentleman's top hat full of feathers. A featherie, or feathery, is a hand-sewn round leather pouch stuffed with chicken or goose feathers and coated with paint, usually white in color. Then or later, the featherie ball was developed and introduced.
It is equally, if not more likely, that leather balls filled with cows' hair were used, imported from the Netherlands from at least 1486 onward. Though they were no doubt used for other similar contemporary stick and ball games, made from hardwoods such as beech and box trees, there is no definite evidence that they were used in golf in Scotland.
It is commonly believed that hard wooden, round balls were the first balls used for golf between the 14th through the 17th centuries.
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