If you are a rocking horse lover, you may wish to visit the rocking horse website of the Kensington Rocking Horse Company. Based in the UK and championing and promoting the traditional English rocking horse, The Kensington Rocking Horse Company has a showroom and rocking horse shop in Sussex, south of London, where Victorian-style rocking horses and many other rocking horses can be viewed and bought.
From its rocking horse workshops around England and elsewhere in the UK, Victorian-style rocking horses, hand-carved from fine hardwoods and featuring real horsehair and removable or fixed leather tack are supplied to the UK, the USA, Continental Europe and elsewhere. Georgian-style bow rockers are sometimes chosen for their wonderful elegance, but most customers opt for the greater practicality of the swinger safety stand. The British rocking horse or perhaps more specifically the English rocking horse has deservedly earned a reputation as the finest the world has to offer and is valued, admired and respected around the world. Many people covet an English rocking horse but few are able to have the joy of owning one.
Wooden rocking horses date back a long way, but it was only in the 18th Century that they became available to the English middle classes. Many of these old rocking horses and now re-appearing for restoration and antique rocking horse restorers require particular skills.
A rocking horse is a child's toy, usually shaped like a horse and mounted on rockers similar to a rocking chair.
Predecessors of the rocking horse may be seen in the rocking cradle and the tilting seats used during the Middle Ages for jousting practice. The wheeled hobby horse was also a forerunner of the rocking horse.. The toy in its current form probably did not appear before the 17th century, though some sources suggest that medieval manuscripts including references to carved rocking horses.
From the 19th century onward rocking horses became more commonly considered as child's toy. Mostly built by hobby woodcrafters, and ranging from relatively crude to finely ornamented and the toys of future kings, it was not until the late 19th century that the production became industrialised.[2]
There are two sorts, the one where the horse part sits rigidly attached to a par of curved rockers that are in contact with the ground, and a second sort, where the horse hangs on a rigid frame by iron straps the horse moves only relative to the frame, which does not move.
In 2006, the Guinness Book of World Records certified Katlinel and Les Hartness of California as having the largest hand-carved wooden rocking horse on record. This rocking horse was built in 2000 and is 7 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 1,200 pounds. It can be seen at renaissance faires, faerie festivals, and at private parties and events where up to 3 adults or 4-5 children can ride it together at one time. According to Les and Katlinel, the youngest rider has been six weeks old and the oldest, 94 years.
Schaukelpferd-Liebhaber sind herzlich willkommen, ihr Holz-Schaukelpferd (oder Rocking Horse) bei The Kensington Rocking Horse Company, England auszusuchen. Wenn Sie ein traditionelles, englisches Schaukelpferd aus Holz mögen, klicken Sie auf obigen Link, und Sie finden eine Auswahl englischer Schaukelpferde und vielleicht auch Ihr Lieblings-Schaukelpferdchen.
Hobbelpaard
Hobbelpaard is Dutch for rocking horse and hobbelpaard and antiek hobbelpaard lovers in Holland and the Netherlands will find much to interest and delight them in the selection of hobbelpaarden and antiek hobbelpaarden available for the Netherlands. Rocking horses have a proud history in Holland and although there is little if any rocking horse production there nowadays, interest remains very high and many Dutch parents are delighted to buy a fine English rocking horse for their child.
More of our comments on the rocking horse page of www.angelfire.com/rock3/rockinghorses and rocking horse at www.angelfire.com/rock3/rocking-horse-horse as well as http://rockinghorse14.tripod.com/ and
