33 breeds · 82 designs
The real horses, by name.
Each breed as the stud books of 1894 showed it: the horse itself, engraved after a photograph, its name beneath. On heavyweight cotton.
Four ways
On the back, or on the chest.
The plate big on the back, the engraving small on the chest, a coat colour, or Muybridge’s photographs.
Four families
Every kind of horse.
33 breeds, from the Arabian to the Shetland pony, grouped the way breeders group them.
Saddle horses
Bred to be ridden: the light horses, from the Arabian and the Barb to the Thoroughbred.
Trotters and carriage horses
Bred to pull a light carriage fast, at the trot.
Heavy horses
Bred to plough and haul: the biggest horses there are.
Wild and northern horses
The last wild horse, a lost one, and the small hardy horses of the north.
How each one is made.
From the book
Each horse is the one in the book: a real animal, photographed, then engraved, under the name it was shown by.
Restored
Each engraving is lifted from a scan of the page into one ink, line by line. Nothing is redrawn.
To order
No stock. Your piece is printed after you order and shipped free, and checkout shows the estimated delivery dates for your address.
Coat colours
Know your horse’s colour.
Twelve coats, as a breeder names them: one on the chest, or all twelve on the back.
The Colours of the Horse
Twelve coats, as a breeder names them.
Bay Coat
Don’t call it brown.
Chestnut Coat
Don’t call it red.
Liver Chestnut Coat
Don’t call it dark brown.
Black Coat
Black to the roots.
Grey Coat
Don’t call it white.
Flea-Bitten Coat
Don’t call it spotty.
Dun Coat
Don’t call it beige.
Palomino Coat
Don’t call it blonde.
Buckskin Coat
Don’t call it tan.
Blue Roan Coat
Don’t call it grey.
Strawberry Roan Coat
Don’t call it pink.
Cremello Coat
Not white: cream.
See all
13 designs
New breeds, by email.
One email when a new breed joins the book. Nothing else.