Do you think a saddle blanket this long and richly embellished was only
for Royal Portraits?
The horse cannot move much with all that fabric around its legs/feet.
It would most likely walk. No galloping in this, unless the rider
wanted to take a chance that the horse's legs would get tangled and
they horse and rider would fall mightily- ( half a ton of horse moving
at a fast pace=momentum!)
One reason modern sidesaddle riders "evolved" the skirt to the much
smaller Safety Apron (with matching breeches underneath it) was because
women had been dragged to death when all that fabric of petticoats and
skirts got tangled around the saddle pommels and could not release the
woman from the galloping / jumping/ bucking horse.
Susan
"Slow down. The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel
too fast and you miss all you are traveling for". - "Ride the Dark
Trail" by Louis L'Amour
On Mar 8, 2006, at 2:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With what I have read and seen in paintings during the past few years
of my own research; I've only seen women on horses with that cloth
covering. What a saddle blanket! Now, I do want to add that not all
women riders used this type of cloth covering.
Roscelin
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In both of these paintings, there seems to be a piece of cloth
covering the
horse to its ankles underneath the ladies' gowns. Was this a standard
part of
saddlery, or was it specific to lady riders? (To protect their
skirts, maybe?)
Tea Rose, who has ridden horses exactly twice in her life
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