This "Rustic" style has a sheath using 24 custom yarns of 96% mohair, 4% wool carefully hitched by hand, one-knot-at-a-time, onto a specially designed no-slip, 100% mohair core. These Roper reins and Mecates are refreshingly comfortable in the hand, exhibit a fine flexibility passing along signals from hand to horse evenly, and breathable for convenient drying. The interlocking knots prevent the core from pushing out between strands!
Please specify up to 3 of the following colors
{1st color will be used most and 3rd color will be used least such as for dash, fleck, or combo pattern. Standard price if we decide the pattern, up-grade fee applies for customer specified pattern}:
White is the only natural color
Standard Earth-tones:
Brown, Sorrel, Honey, Black, Light Copper, Slate Gray
Special Colors:
Turquoise, Blue, Raspberry, Cardinal, Summer Green, Easter Green, Tulip Pink
Ends are finished with Horsehair Tassel or Loop {Tassel/Loop means one of each per end}.
ArtCords is pleased to provide you with the quality you deserve by "placing a comfortable lead in your grasp".
Yarns are prepared and tied by Darin Alexander
Given the hand-processing, no two are exactly the same.
Liz Graves of www.lizgraves.com provided us with the following based on the tied rope she purchased from Darin at the MN Horse Expo 2009:
"Traditionally in my circles we use 22 foot ,rein length being 10 (5 foot doubled) , 1 1/2 -2 foot used for the heel knot tie, leaving a 10 foot lead which is IMO perfect length for ground work done in bosal and plenty for lead length.
I am not surprised the twisted is most commonly asked for as it’s about tradition but I truly after a life time of using twisted Mecates, I like the tied one you did so much better. It’s a new concept for folks and change is hard but if they try it and have any sense of feel they should love them and catch on with the better horseman out there.
This is why, the twisted crimps up (like a garden hose) so much over time, just something we have accepted all these years. We are supposed to remove the Mecate after riding and retie each time we use it but for those of us that train and work strings of horses daily we just don’t have the time for this procedure unless you’re lucky enough to have a staff that can untie your rigs at the end of a day’s string and retie for you each morning to start. So we just put up with the twisting until you cannot stand it anymore as your reins wont hang and drape right. This is not happening with the tied one I have.
The other thing I have found as I have mane hair, tail hair , Yak hair, Llama hair and twisted mohair Mecates here and I love the Mohair, yak and Llama as I don’t HAVE to wear gloves to use them but what I had found with the Mohair twist was it could be kind of temperamental in weather, depending on temp and humidity, it cannot drape well through the rein, in cold damp weather seems to make it as I say misbehave so signals don’t resonate from hand horse evenly. I guess this does not matter for those that pull on reins more, where I work with more subtle signals in hand vibrations so the perfect rein drape is important to me. With your tied mohair Mecate this temperamental-ness is just not happening at all. I also like the what I call body of your tied Mecate so well, I like the term “body” better than “weighted” as we used to say of reins . I don’t use that term any more as folks as usual took it beyond and over defined and it now we see actual weighted reins in turn being to heavy where the horse has to use the tongue in bit use all the time to relive the mouth bars of the horse and in bosal no relief just heavy on the face all the time.
So in turn after many years I have found your Tied Mecate to be the best I’ve encountered so far.
Thanks!!"
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