Wood Magazine 108 by Larry Clayton

Author:Larry Clayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wood, Home and hobby woodworker
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
Published: 1998-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

story Under the Christmas Tree. But in the religiously proper time when they became popular, such toys, shown above, were probably reserved for Sunday playtimes following church services.

They rode steeds of stable stock

Hobbyhorses, often nothing more than a stick with a crude head, are detailed in early European paintings and woodcuts. Rocking horses also hark from medieval times. However, these were the wooden

first steeds of young noblemen.

Astride them, they began learning knightly tournament and battle skills. The prototypes were nothing more than two slabs of wood joined in an A-shape atop a platform. But by the 1800s the rocking horse at its finest was delicately carved, painted, fitted with real horse-hair manes and tails, then balanced on two curved rockers. Lesser models, below, might still be slabs with the bodies rendered in painted outline on their flat sides.

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