Each horse is made of a boat-shaped wooden frame, pointed and built up at each end, which is carried on the dancer’s shoulders. As at Padstow, his face is hidden by a mask attached to a tall, pointed hat. The top surface of the horse is covered with ribbons and strips of fabric. A long fabric skirt, painted with rows of multicoloured roundels, hangs down to the ground all round. Each horse is accompanied by a small group of musicians and attendants.

• The man who leads it sometimes breathes into its mouth or nostrils.
• The 2017 CityHorse event, which was held to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the native Finnhorse, included a separate tournament for hobby-horse competitors.
• Also known as the “Doudou”, the Ducasse de Mons is a festival that takes place on Trinity Sunday in the town of Mons and consists of two parts.
• Behind it are two men in threatening postures, one is waving a long stick like the handle of a brush or rake, the other probably a besom broom .
• The Hobby Horse was succeeded by magazines like The Yellow Book and The Savoy.
• Some of the jumps in these tournaments are nearly two meters high and require real skill to clear while carrying a stick-horse.

But one emerging subculture that some are finding particularly confusing is the latest Finnish trend in hobby-horsing; using toy horse heads on sticks to imitate real equestrian events such as dressage and show jumping. It has become so popular that it is starting to spread to other Nordic nations and even further afield. There are now an estimated 10,000 stick-horse enthusiasts in Finland, and the number is steadily rising. Like The Hobby Horse, this painting came to its present collection as a gift of renowned folk art collectors Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch.

Robert Peckham’s “the Hobby Horse”

For some, it’s about making horses rather than riding them, or about photography or making YouTube videos. Using a strong needle, I went through the wooden hole, and pierced the elastic band of the sock, then wrapped my thread around and around the base of the sock, over a thin layer of thunderbird bungalows Tacky glue. I would periodically send my needle over and under the layers of thread so that the connection point from wooden stick to fluffy head was STRONG. For the horse’s nose, I took a thick pinch of the stuffed sock, and stitched it at the base, using matching thread, so that a structured nostril would form. Most arresting is Rosa herself, whose forthright gaze engages us intently and directly—one of the most distinctive aspects of Peckham’s portraits.

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With the “Little Wife” and the “dotted man”, four dancers representing Turks perform a ritual dance in front of each house, to ensure wealth for the family and a good harvest. They must lift their legs as high as possible to ensure tall crops of flax. They wave handkerchieves, as in the English morris dance but originally wielded sabres instead.

A few years earlier , Herman was listed as a “Fancy-Basketmaker,” and in 1861 the Boston Directory his company offered “Baskets and toys.” The show featured nine children’s portraits created for patrons among a newly thriving class of Massachusetts merchants and manufacturers in the mid-1800s. Peckham’s paintings were displayed along with a hide-covered rocking horse similar to the one depicted in The Hobby Horse. This in-depth study features an illustrated essay and chronology that originally appeared in the exhibition’s educational brochure.

Several of these have fireworks attached to their extremities, or are showered with sparks by their attendants, and are a spectacular sight. A more rustic-looking horse of similar basic construction is part of the celebrations of the Carnaval de Lantz, Spain. Called the zaldiko, it forms an essential part of the carnival procession, together with the ziripot, a strange character in an enormous straw-stuffed costume. Another character wears a rather voluminous, tattered, long, dark dress; busily brushing the ground with a besom broom, “she” is reminiscent of the character Besom Bet who appears in some mummers plays.

In Indonesia, flat silhouettes of horses are suspended between the dancers’ legs . The Hobby Horse aimed to champion the philosophy and aims of the Century Guild and was carefully produced under the tutelage of Emery Walker (1851–1933), the renowned printer and typographer at the Chiswick Press. Beautiful mature woman enjoying with closed eyes her brown arabian mare in the free nature. Happy family mother and daughter having fun riding horse inside… “There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ ways to do hobby-horsing,” says Eponi, “and the community itself has a very ‘you do you’ attitude. It can be a competitive sport in a variety of equestrian disciplines, but it can also be very free-form or role play.

While these portraits share many of the earmarks of Peckham’s style, they have a greater sense of immediacy than his more formal works. There is a palpable affection communicated in the likenesses, and the sitter’s faces are relaxed and slightly smiling. Unlike their grander, commissioned works that show children wearing their Sunday best, this pair is painted in plain, everyday dress.

The magazine was titled The Century Guild Hobby Horse during its publication from 1884–1892, but in its final years in 1893 and 1894 it was simply The Hobby Horse. The Hobby Horse served as a way of sharing the views of the Guild and promoted crafted art as opposed to mechanical industry. The Century Guild disbanded once members Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, Herbert Horne and Selwyn Image became busy with their individual work. Though The Hobby Horse managed to exist longer after the Guild fell apart , it ultimately was soon to cease production without the Guild in force.