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  2. Horsehair - Wikipedia

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    A horse's tail. Horsehair is the long hair growing on the manes and tails of horses.It is used for various purposes, including upholstery, brushes, the bows of musical instruments, a hard-wearing fabric called haircloth, and for horsehair plaster, a wallcovering material formerly used in the construction industry and now found only in older buildings.

  3. Buckram - Wikipedia

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    Buckram is a stiff cotton, or occasionally, linen or horse hair cloth with a plain, usually loose, weave, produced in various weights similar to muslin and other plain weave fabrics. [1] The fabric is soaked in a sizing agent such as wheat-starch paste, glue (such as PVA glue), or pyroxylin (gelatinized nitrocellulose, developed around 1910 ...

  4. Glossary of equestrian terms - Wikipedia

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    A wide flat strap made of mohair, reinforced felt, or an equivalent synthetic material used in conjunction with a latigo strap to secure a western saddle onto the back of a horse. [1]: 44 clipping Clipping the hair short on all or part of a horse. Different patterns have different names, such as harness clip, hunter clip etc. [8]: 109 clumper (AU)

  5. Haircloth - Wikipedia

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    Haircloth is commonly understood as a stiff, unsupple fabric made from coarse fibre from camelids, bovines, horses, goats, rabbits, hares and reindeers. [1] However, a softer variation is valued in the textile and fashion industries for their rarity, aesthetics and comfort.

  6. Mane (horse) - Wikipedia

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    On horses, the mane is the hair that grows from the top of the neck of a horse or other equine, reaching from the poll to the withers, and includes the forelock or foretop. [1] [2]: 247 [3]: 311 It is thicker and coarser than the rest of the horse's coat, and naturally grows to roughly cover the neck.

  7. Glossary of North American horse racing - Wikipedia

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    A detailed list of statistics about a race. The chart lists the position of each horse at various points of the race, the margin between horses, plus the odds for the race, and each horse's sex, age, weight carried, owner, and trainer. The chart also describes the purse, race conditions, payouts for various winning bets, times and other data ...

  8. Horse hair raku - Wikipedia

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    Horse hair vase. Horse hair raku is a method of decorating pottery through the application of horsehair and other dry carbonaceous material to the heated ware. The burning carbonaceous material creates smoke patterns and carbon trails on the surface of the heated ware that remain as decoration after the ware cools.

  9. Shell cordovan - Wikipedia

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    Cordovan is an equine material made from the fibrous flat connective tissue (or shell) beneath the hide on the rump of the horse. [1] The material derives its name from the city of Cordoba, Spain , where it was first produced by the Visigoths in the seventh century, [ 2 ] [ dubious – discuss ] and later also by the Moors .