Heavy horse sized driving bridles

[philg9]

This is a recent comission I completed recently.  Four traditional heavy horse style driving bridles for a team of Shire horses here in the UK.  These are show standard bridles with patent leather winkers and rolled leather winker stays, raised front noseband and brass clincher browbands. It's not often 4 in one order comes in these days, it's usually single or for a pair so was particularly pleased to then hang the 4 up for a photo shoot. I had to crop this picture to down size it to be able to load it here.

The stitchng on the winkers and the face piece front is done at 8 to inch,   the rest is 7 to the inch using traditional waxed linen thread.

Edited April 2, 2020 by philg9

[Scoutmom103]

Those are Beautiful.  Would love to see a pic of them on the Clients team.

 

[Smartee]

Beautiful!  I'd love to see them on the team!

[jcuk]

Really nice work as i have said not enough of this type of work is shown here, i bet the customer will very over the world with those bridles.

 

Thanks for showing

JCUK

[rodneywt1180b]

Beautiful work and I'm another one who would love to see them on the horses.

 

[battlemunky]

Them horses are gonna feel all gussied up! Another great lot of work!

[motocouture]

Gorgeous work!

[philg9]

I will reply to above posts as one rather than individual posts as the same question is asked.  Firstly thankyou for your kind words.  As we are in corona lock down and so far, a lot of the summer horse shows and events have been cancelled,  these bridles will not be seen out on the horses but no doubt the customer may well put the team together at home at some point so if I do get a pic some time this year I will be sure to add it here. The bridles have been collected so I have to wait now to even see them on.  I would imagine bridles of this style are not seen much in the U.S.A. The bridles I see from over the pond are different in the way they are made and fit on the horses.  So for now here is a picture of another of the same style bridle I made as part of a pairs set so you can see what they look like on a horse, this one being a grey Shire horse.  I had to crop it to get it down to size.

Edited April 3, 2020 by philg9

[philg9]

And this picture is one half of the patent leather pairs show set that goes with the above bridle.

[philg9]

This pic show the raised bevelled breeching seat and the box loop tugs and trace carrier parts form the above set waiting to be sewn into the breeching seat.

 

Edited April 3, 2020 by philg9