If the impala turned into a horse and carriage there's all sorts of flashy bits people used to put on to ward off the 'evil eye'.
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Laga - Feb 08, 2011 9:54:48 am PST #17675 of 30002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
sumi - Feb 08, 2011 9:56:36 am PST #17676 of 30002
Art Crawl!!!
P.M. Marc - Feb 08, 2011 10:01:17 am PST #17677 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Chrome/big ass metal decorations at the corners of the bit, ita. Period-appropriate and you could TOTALLY sneak in devil's traps and stuff.
Laga - Feb 08, 2011 10:06:35 am PST #17678 of 30002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Arthur's a cariage horse but I think you could take some liberties with riding tack. Note the forehead ornament.
Ginger - Feb 08, 2011 10:11:40 am PST #17679 of 30002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There would be nothing keeping your character from having a Spanish bridle from Mexico or California: [link] [link]
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sumi - Feb 08, 2011 10:15:05 am PST #17680 of 30002
Art Crawl!!!
Yeah, lots of silver would totally work.
And the horse could have "high chrome" too - but that would have been frowned upon by many in the 19th century.
Beverly - Feb 08, 2011 10:19:09 am PST #17681 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
What the hell kind of bit is that last one? Looks like a torture device--tack by the Spanish Inquisition. Also, now I'm humming Boots of Spanish Leather. Which is a reprieve from "Gelderland! Gelderland. Gelderland, Gelderland, Gelderland!" from A Knight's Tale, prompted by a breed I'd never heard of in one of those links, the Gelderlander.
ita, I completely agree with Ginger--Mexican silver was all over the place on tack and haberdashery. It would not be unusual at all for a silver-mounted bridle to show up on a flashy black horse.
Now. Mare? or not?
§ ita § - Feb 08, 2011 10:40:45 am PST #17682 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ooh, thanks, I hope I can get some of this in.
Yeah, it's a mare. But I'm only drawing to the shoulders, I think. She's in a stall in the scene I'm thinking of illustrating. With her bridle on.
Beverly - Feb 08, 2011 10:59:40 am PST #17683 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
There have been fics set in the west, either timeslip or post-apocalypse, that parallels were drawn from pentagram to US Marshal's star. IJS, it would not be at all out of place to have pentagrams in silver on a bridle. Or Enochian script or runes disguised as ornamental scrollwork. Or, you know, stuff.
sumi - Feb 08, 2011 11:00:54 am PST #17684 of 30002
Art Crawl!!!
I can see them where the bridlepath meets the cheekpieces.