{"id":1204,"date":"2010-05-11T09:54:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T14:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/blog\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2010-05-11T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T14:54:18","slug":"saddles-and-sallangs-working-with-leather-fit-for-a-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2010\/05\/saddles-and-sallangs-working-with-leather-fit-for-a-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddles and Sallangs: Working with Leather Fit for a Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishsaddlerepair.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ava Vettenberg<\/a> apprenticed to a Hungarian saddle maker in her twenties. Years later she found herself working\u00a0with\u00a0master saddle maker (and former Olympic\u00a0gold-medalist rider)\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadcoffinsaddles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tad Coffin<\/a>. Now Ava makes her home in Swansea, Massachusetts where she is building a reputation as a skilled saddle maker who\u00a0breathes new life into worn and broken English saddles. It is a skill born of many years of working with leather and horses. &#8220;My master told me that you cannot learn all of this in the time it takes for a candle to burn down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1209\" title=\"Ava Vettenberg pointing to saddle tree needing repair\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ava_saddlerepair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the core of a saddle, underneath the leather padding and synthetic webbing, is a structural unit called\u00a0a saddle tree. In\u00a0Ava&#8217;s words,\u00a0&#8220;It is the heart, the engine, the center, the base, the frame of a saddle.&#8221; A well-built, well-engineered saddle tree needs to be super strong, but also have give.\u00a0A\u00a0saddle, as Ava points out, is really\u00a0&#8220;sporting goods equipment between two living beings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In one corner of Ava&#8217;s shop is a saddle\u00a0needing repair made by\u00a0Herm\u00e9s, the Parisian company known for their haute couture silk scarves. The company\u00a0still hand-stitches their saddles, however most saddle makers today use machines.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1211\" title=\"Ava seated at her &quot;stitching horse&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ava_stitchinghorse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hand stitching leather requires strong hands and two needles. Ava sits at her\u00a0&#8220;stitching horse&#8221; to sew two pieces of leather together, using two needles and an awl. The majority of\u00a0her tools she inherited from her master,\u00a0Ferenc Laszlo.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1213\" title=\"Ava sewing using an awl and two needles\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ava_sewing1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to building and repairing saddles, Ava is a master of the\u00a0Hungarian art of braiding leather into decorative pieces called <em>sallang.<\/em> The Hungarian word translates to\u00a0scrap leather. Originally, horse owners\u00a0attached leather straps\u00a0to the harness as a way for horses to fling away flies.<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a0400 years ago in Europe, these functional leather scaps were developed into\u00a0decorative pieces used to\u00a0dress up the horse for special occasions.\u00a0&#8220;It was naturally a different culture. There was no airplane, there was no car, there was no telephone. And when a\u00a0prominent guest or political person came to the town, how did you go to the railroad station to pick them up? With a beautiful pair of horses, or four in hand &#8212; two in front, two behind.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because the working harness is brown or a natural color, getting dusty or dirty, it&#8217;s fine when you train the horses. We don&#8217;t use decoration. As soon as you dress up your horses for parade, even today, for carriage driving presentation, the Hungarians use these sallang decorations on the harness\u00a0\u00a0One on the forehead, two sideways at the ears and one on the back.&#8221;\u00a0The use of brass ornaments &#8212;\u00a0rosettes, stars,\u00a0buckles &#8212;\u00a0and painted color initials\u00a0represent different barns.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1219\" title=\"Sallang made by Ava Vettenberg\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ava_sallangbrown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1220\" title=\"Sallang decorating bridle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ava_horse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With Ava Vettenburg in our midst, perhaps we will see more horses adorned with sallang and more riders who are truly comfortable in their English saddles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1221\" title=\"Ava showing one of her braided leather sallangs which adorn the back of the horse\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ava_sallangblack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ava Vettenberg apprenticed to a Hungarian saddle maker in her twenties. 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