Long before I started making saddles, I financed my hobby by selling lots of small tack items. Since most of what I knew came from Susan Bensema Young's Guide to Making Model Horse Tack, it's no surprise that a lot of those items were braided. The quirts featured in this long ago post, were some of my hottest sellers. I think I must have sold at least twenty of these in 1999 alone.
Nowadays I rarely get orders for braided items so I was surprised to receive a recent request for a pair of quirts. Even more surprising--so much time had passed since I'd made a quirt that I wasn't sure I remembered how to do it!
Of course that meant I had to experiment a little...
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I read that older post you linked to...fingernail polish! Perfect! Thanks for unknowingly leading me to the solution I've been looking for :D
ReplyDeleteLOVE! I've always wanted to do one of the really complicated quirts with a lot of braiding.. Next time you're near Ky or I'm near CO we'll have to get together and make tack!
ReplyDeleteI have one of your older quirts.....somewhere.... Used it in 2008 on my NAN champ OF speed games entry. It added just the right touch.
ReplyDeleteThese look lovely! I bet if you make more, you can sell them easily!
Thanks, Becca and Vicky! And Heather, you have NO IDEA how much I want that to happen. Seriously.
ReplyDeleteThese are cool! I would love a tack tip on how to do them!
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