Padded collar with Swarovski cristals

Dark havana leather and padding, stainless steel buckle and dee and 49 white Swarovski cristals. It measures 19" 1/2 at middle hole.

De Gogue-Margot

A new version of this piece of tack, this time in conker leather, with stainless steel buckles and rings, nickel-plated brass rollers and Sam Browne's and, last but not least, new beige rope (high toughness PP rope).

Quick-change split reins with balanced end

A pair of new split reins in hazel leather with stainless steel dees. They measure 7' 1/2  x 5/8" (230 cm x 16 mm) and last 17" are balanced by stitching a series of small leads between the leather.

A detail of quick-change billets:

Cotton lunge line

Lunge line made in 5/8" x 4 m cotton rope. The rope was originally white, I dyed it with a simple, organic and durable method, then I stitched the leather tails at both ends.

Postcard from Finland

A friend from Finland sent me this nice summer picture, showing his mare wearing one of my bitless bridles complete with laced reins (this and these).

Warm, bright summer day... good omen for the spring to come!

Two dog collars

So you won't think I'm idle, belly scratching or sleeping...

First one is The Big Classic:

Hazel leather, caramel padding, brass oval buckle. It measures 3/4" x 15" 3/8 at middle hole.

Other one is a re-edition of the smallest rolled collar I've made until now:

Australian nut leather, brass fittings, 1/2" wide at the buckle.

Maremmana bridle with matching reins

Here's mine interpretation of a classical italian standard, the "maremmana" bridle. It's a typical model from Maremma, southern part of Toscana, where it's still used by the italian counterpart of the cowboys, the Butteri.

Sedgwick leather (dark havana) and solid brass buckles with stainless steel tongue, 5/8" wide browband and throatlatch and 3/4" bit billets, reins and noseband (detachable).

A pic of the left side:

Right side view:

The browband is both padded and raised and has the traditional leather emblem, adorned with a line of stitching.
A detail of bit billets. It has a loop just beneath the buckle, where the noseband is inserted:

...and a back detail of it:

I shot a few studio pics of the matching reins, as I always find quite hard to shoot decent ones while photographing the bridle. 2 meters long and 3/4" wide, there are 3 loos on them: the first two are stitched together with reins, the third one (known as "registro", or regulator) is running on the leather and used to adjust a "work lenght":

 

The bit billets:

Detail of second stitched loop and the running "registro":

Country belt with stainless steel hardware

A new version of the country belt:

3/4" wide conker leather, this time coupled with stainless steel roller buckle, dee and hook snap.

Black bridle with Grackle noseband

New black bridle with a grackle noseband, with lambskin lining. Size full,  hook billets, padded and raised browband.

Here's the browband (under Charly's tuft):

And here's a noseband detail:

Spiked collar - size L

Black leather collar with 13 spiked studs, suitable for large size dogs. Nickel-plated brass studs, stainless steel buckle and dee.
1" wide, adjustable from 20" to 24" (51-61 cm).

A bigger version of this one, made last year for Argo.