Product Specifications
| Prod Model: |
20cm - 40cm |
| Markets: |
Eastern Europe,Eastern Asia |
| Type: |
Horse Tail |
| Kind: |
Horse Hair |
Product Description
Wonderful Rare Antique 19th Century Horsehair Sieve made of wood and finely woven horse hair. Held together by old, original nails. Made similarly to a pantry box with a smaller hoop of wood fitted into a larger hoop of wood with the woven horsehair mesh secured in between. A partially braided rope of horsehair attaches the two sections together. The smaller hoop is held together by three nails, two of which have split the wood. This measures approx. 8" in diameter. The larger band is held together by two nails and has a 8 1/4" diameter. Overall height is approx. 4 1/2". Written in pencil to the right of the split area is what looks like 11/R. Condition of the horsehair is very good with one small area near the inner lap of the larger portion which has worn a bit and is missing the ends of the hair. Please see the pictures. The nails appear to be original and have aged the wood around them. They are bent over to hold the wood. See Mary Earle Gould's Early American Wooden Ware book which has a chapter on Sieves. She states: "The earliest type of sieve found in the old New England homes was made of hair...Taken from horses' manes and cows' tails. " Also "Records of Shaker Colonies state that sieve-making became an important industry beginning in 1810 in the colony at New Lebanon, New York. " Shakers sometimes used these for sifting dry paint powders.
Anping ShuangMa Animal by products Factory located in Anping, China, where has more than 400 years history in animal hair processing. It is the biggest distribution center of animal tail hair in North China. There are over 50, 000 people involved in animal tail hair process and more than 1000 workshops. The annual export amount of animal tail hair products of Anping accounts for 40 percent of China and 70 percent of Hebei Province.
Our factory has 34 years history since established in 1978s by my grandfather, we are the third generation to do horse tail hair business. We mainly processes all kinds of horsehair tail, fiddle bow hair, horse mane, horse body hair, horsetail fabrics, goat hair, curled horse hair etc. We have 30 experienced workers; The annual output value is more than 10 million. With high-quality products and good reputation, our products widely sold throughout the country, and directly export to United States, Japan, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Pakistan, India and other countries.
We can provide sewed horse hair for using in man-made horse, Scotland sporran, decoration and so on.
