Stitching Horses:
Use:
The stitching horse is combination stool and hands free clamp that allows the user to hand stitch saddle or harness parts. The clamp is typically activated with a foot pedal. Most are made of wood and many of those are hand made. Deeper jaws are used more for saddle work, shallow jaws for harness work. A good stitching horse has narrower and more pointed jaws to allow better access for stabbing the leather with the awl. There are also accessory clamps that fit onto the horse clamp for specialized work on belt loops or reins.
Toolmaker: Unknown
Inventor: Doering, Herman
- A very unusal metal jaw stitching horse.
- Cast into the jaw is "PAT JULY 27 1892" allthough the date is quite worn.
- I have searched and believe this to be U.S. Patent No. 74704,1 dated May 3, 1892, and the patent holder to be Herman Doering, of Reedsburg, Wisconsin.
- I have no idea why the date on the jaw is different than the patent date found. It may be a date of manufacture or the date they were notified that the patent was issued?
