Wooden rocking Horses with Personality

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Rocking horses are created for people who want something completely different.

Designers of unique, exclusive wooden horses, do not stick to the conventional markings, painting patterns and design, but try to make out of each wooden rocking horse a 'one of a kind' piece of art: an individual with a personality.

If you are looking for a unique, high quality wooden rocking horse with a close match to your dream-horse or own favourite horse or pony It can be carved and painted the way you want to have it.
There are a lot of possibilities; For example chooses your own color, color of the tail and manes, tack, bit, stirrups or a particular decoration.Even if you want a wooden horse in 'Picasso'-design or a horse what appears to be made out of marble; there are always possibilities!Each wooden horse is created individually and only a few, unique -one of kind- animals are made each year.

In a specialist woodworking handcraft, studio, horses are handled with the atmost care and attention. Every horse is made and tested to the latest EU regulations.Once the horse is ready, you get a unique horse and a fine piece of art!

Painting wooden horses, ancient oil-techniques are some times used. By glazing, a time-consuming and difficult painting technique, the wooden horse becomes very lifelike. After 8 or sometimes even 15 layers of paint the horse is sealed with thinned shellac.
It is this coat which yellows with age and gives old wooden rocking horses their own characteristic. This means that each wooden horse is an individual artistic work and for this reason they are signed and mostly each has a plate with number and year on them

A rocking horse. Memories of childhood come flooding back. There is a magic about a wooden rocking horse which touches something deep inside us. To fall in love with one, it scarcely seems to matter if you are three, forty-three or eighty-three years old.

There is a hint of a bygone age, but a wooden rocking horse is simply timeless! The world class range of the Kensington Rocking Horse Company in the UK has been called the finest selection in the world.
They have a wide choice and superb quality in traditional wooden rocking horses.Their wooden rocking horse makers are hand-picked top UK carvers of 'Victorian' rocking horses and antique rocking horse restorers.
Every one is a skilled and experienced classic wooden rocking horse maker. They create beautiful, friendly hand carved wooden rocking horses in many styles and sizes, including miniatures.

You can buy handmade wooden rocking horses by their top contemporary makers or choose from their antique range of wooden rocking horses.

A Kensington Rocking Horse dressed in haute couture by Jean Paul Gaultier in his inimitable fashion attracted a winning bid of £80,000 when auctioned by Christie's at the recent Russian Rhapsody charity gala in London in aid of the Naked Heart Foundation, the children's charity founded and managed by Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova.

Or a Chester Wooden rocking horse. These magnificent, individually hand made Chester rocking horses are made without compromise and acclaimed as the very finest available. Selected hardwoods, saddler-made tack in Sedgwick leather, flowing manes and tails, deluxe accessories and, above all, superb craftsmanship by Britain's most accomplished wooden rocking horse makers.

If you are interested in fine woodworking and wooden rocking horses. I have listed the following sites for you to view.

http://www.rockinghorsedesign.com/rocking.htm
http://www.qualityrockinghorses.co.uk/
http://www.oldrockinghorses.com/

And until the next woodworking and craft workshop.
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