horse harness is a type of horse tack that allows a horse or other equine to pull various horse-drawn vehicles such as a carriage, wagon or sleigh. Harnesses may also be used to hitch animals to other loads such as a plow or canal boat.

There are two main categories of horse harness, "breaststrap" or "breastcollar" design and the collar and hames design. For light work, such as horse show competition where light carts are used, a harness needs only a breastcollar. It can only be used for lighter hauling, since it places the weight of the load on the sternum of the horse and the nearby windpipe. This is not the heaviest skeletal area; also heavy loads can constrict the windpipe and reduce a horse's air supply.

You Receive a total of thirteen {13} how-to books & catalogs:

:: Harness Making {1904}

:: Harness Repairing {1921}

:: Bits and Bearing-reins with observations on horses and harness {1885}

:: Carriages, Sleighs, Harness {1890}

:: G.S. Ellis, fine harness, saddles, trotting and running horse outfits {1892}

:: Garfield Price List of Harness, etc {1884}

:: Harness as it has been, as it is, and as it should be {1882}

:: Harness and Carriage Journal Almanac {1878}

:: J&F Sells Catalog of harness, saddlery, horse collars and saddles, wholesale dealers in saddlery hardware {1900}

:: Seats and Saddles, bits and bitting, draught and harness {1886}

:: Special harness catalogue, season 1910 and 1911 {1910}

:: The Harness Makers' guide {1907}

:: The harness Makers' illustrated manual {1875}

Learn the craft of proper harness construction and repair with these two well illustrated vintage books on a Gift Quality CD.

Topics Include.......


:: Harness Making (1904) - 168 pages.

:: Harness Makers Tools
:: Harness Makers Material
:: Strap Making & Stitching
:: Looping
:: Cart Harness
:: Cart Collars
:: Cart Saddles, Reigns, etc.
:: Fore Gear & Leader Harness
:: Plough Harness
:: Bits, Spurs, Stirrups & Harness Furniture
:: Van & Cab Harness
:: Index

:: Harness Repairing (1921) - 64 pages.

:: Making a Harness Thread
:: Making a Stitched Splice
:: Attaching a Buckle with a Conway Loop
:: Attaching a Buckle with Rivets and the Riveting Machine
:: Replacing a Hame Clip on a Tug
:: Repairing a Trace or Trace and Tug with Hame Clips and Link
:: Replacing a Broken Hame Staple
:: Use of Buckle Shields
:: Repairing the End of a Trace with a Wrot Concord Clip
:: Attaching Heel Chain to Trace with a Hame Clip
:: Repairing a Trace and Tug with a Trace Square and Two Wrot Concord Clips
:: Splicing a Trace with a Trace Splicer or a Metal Plate
:: Repairing Bottom End of Hame
:: Harness Stitching Clamp to be Used with Metal Vise on Workbench
:: Harness Stitching Clamp to be Used with Farm Shop Workbench Vise
:: Stitching Clamp and Farm Workbench
:: Stitching Horse
:: Saw Horse Stitching Clamp
:: Cleaning and Oiling a Harness
:: Harness Repair Tools and Harness Repair Parts