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SAVE $3 $40.95 on our Special Havan single buckle weanling turnout halters
Buy 6 or more and save $6 each $37.95
In the hands of the Kentucky craftsman (those hands which knew and had always known the secret patient language of leather and awl and the old ways handed down from father to son in the long unbroken chain of making things that would endure) there came into being this thing, this weanling turnout halter wrought in the deep Havana brown that spoke of earth and tobacco barns and the old stables where generations of horsemen had stood in the half-light of dawn, and it was fashioned not with the hurried indifference of the factory machine but with that slow deliberate care which understood that the young horse—that trembling uncertain creature barely weaned from its dam and standing now on its own four legs for the first time in the pasture where it would learn what it meant to be free and yet bound, wild and yet tamed—required something both strong and gentle, the single buckle closing with a certainty that was neither harsh nor yielding but existed in that place between the two where craftsmanship becomes communion.
And at forty dollars and ninety-five cents (or less, if a man were to buy six of them as though the very act of purchasing in quantity somehow acknowledged the endless cycle of colts being born and weaned and turned out into those same fields where their ancestors had run) it represented not merely utility but that peculiarly American understanding that what endures must be both serviceable and true, made by hands that understood leather the way a poet understands words—knowing that each piece carries within it the memory of the living thing it once was.
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