My horse clipart now used as logo for horsehair pottery

From time to time different people contact me about using my horse clip art for different projects. Jaki and Bruce Merrihew of Arizona emailed me asking permission to use my horse head clip art of a horse with flames as a logo design to stamp on their Horsehair pottery.

The horsehair pottery samples you see in the images below were made by Jaki and Bruce Merrihew. The Arabian horse head ceramic piece is a gift to me from them. I photographed it so you could view it.

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Jaki and Bruce used my horse head clip art on the bottoms of the horsehair pottery and I think they were right to feel that my horse and flame clipart would be perfect for this project. They also print the horse clipart as their logo on the gift cards they hang on the pottery items.

Info and History of Horsehair Pottery

Horsehair pottery is a 20th century Native American pottery tradition which seems to have come about by accident.
I read that it was develop because a native potter’s long hair touched and burned on a hot pottery piece as she removed it from the kiln. Where her hair touched the hot clay it crinkled and burned leaving leaving permanent squiggly, dark lines of carbon in the porous clay.

“That’s interesting” she must have thought (artistic types seem to be open to seeing design potential in strange occurrences). She made farther experiments using horsehair (seems she also had common sense too — didn’t want to burn all her hair). She found that the much coarser horsehair left a more striking impression in the pottery than fine human hair. All horsehair pottery has a similar look, but each is quite unique as the horsehair hits and burns on the pottery surface differently each and every time.

Because of its beauty the creation of horse hair pottery has been adopted by other potters both native and non native. Hair from a horse’s mane and/or tail are used and most horse hair pottery is created using white clay for better contrast with the fine dark lines of the burned horsehair. Because the clay is fired at a lower than usual temperature the pottery is porous and cannot be used as a vessel to hold fresh cut flowers in water. Horse hair pottery is wonderful for displaying dried and artificial flower arrangements and plants, and other dry items.

Horse hair pottery is a lovely and unique form of pottery that blends the controlled with the uncontrollable and unpredictable forces of nature.

P.S. If you are looking for horse clip art or a horse logo for your company, site, products, or project check out my site Horse-Logos.com

Free antique horse clip art from years past

Delightful retro horse clip art that your can use for free in horse art projects such as websites, business cards, on and offline newsletters, letterhead / stationery, business ads, etc…

Horse art from an horse book at Archive.org

Visit the Vintage Horse Clip Art image gallery to see and save your favorite ones.

Here are a few of the horse art images…

Check out all 35 Vintage Horse Clip Art images and right click to save your favorites.

Some of the horse images shown above are from the following horse books…

Horse stories and stories of other animals By Thomas Wallace Knox

The horse By William Youatt, Walker Watson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)

Black Beauty By Anna Sewell

The horse By James Irvine Lupton

To find more free to use horse art you might want to check out the links on at Wikipedia:Public domain image resources and do a horse book search at Archive.org.

Old Fashion, Antique, Retro, and Vintage Style Horse Art

Other sites online where you can find this type of horse clip art…

Millermark Creations Free Classic Horse Vintage Horse Clipart! Huge collection of black and white horse art posted on one page. You click on the horse graphic you like and it open larger in a new window where you can right click and save to your computer.

Horse Art Collection horse clip art picture portfolio

Royalty-free Horse Clipart Illustrations

Public Domain Clip Art

Clker.com – Horse

Horse Breeds and Rodeo Vector Art

I also discovered this site with some nice horse art by Emil Kotrba a Czech artist. The art on this site is not free to use clip art but it is wonderful to look at – beautiful black and white lithographs, engraving, and woodcuts. Not as many artist today working in these art mediums creating horse art. I love the “Three Foals”, woodcut near the bottom of the page.

Some of the words you might use to search for more horse clip art…

• horse clip art
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• free horse clip art
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• horse line art
• black and white horse art
• horse clip art images
• vintage horse art
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Copyright Info – U.S. Copyright Office

P.S. Also you might want to check out my Free Horse Clip Art

FREE* Horse clip art graphics for your personal and non-profit sites

*Shareware – the horse clip art is FREE only when you give me a text link back to my site – alove4horses.com when you post the image on your personal or non-profit website or in your HTML email stationery. Get linking information at bottom of page.

If you have any problems downloading the horse clip art graphics… Don’t panic!! Contact Me and I will be glad to assist you, but first read the easy downloading instructions at the bottom of this page. Thanks!

Visit my Horse Logos website for more horse clip art graphics . Some of the horse graphics on this page are there in different sizes, colors, and in web and print quality at very reasonable prices. If you need any of the horse clip art images customized – made a different size, color, or facing a different direction, Contact Me for a price quote.

Instructions for Downloading the clipart images:

Right Click to Download The Horse Clip Art Files

Click on the horse clipart of your choice with your RIGHT mouse button and you will see a menu with some chooses.

In Internet Explorer choose “Save Picture As…” In the Firefox choose, “Save Image As…” and click on it and then a download screen will appear

You should save the clip art horse art image files to your “Desktop” or “Pictures” folder so you can easily find the images again.

Once you have downloaded the horse clipart image, go to where you saved it and you can open and view the image by double clicking the file. FTP the image to your website or use it in your HTML email stationery.

TIP: Image details: like file size, image size, and image name can be found by right-clicking on the saved image and then clicking on “Properties.”

Horse Clip Art Link Back

Put this text in your page: Free Horse Clip Art. Then link that text to my website at: http://alove4horses.com/free-horse-clip-art/

Please do an Internet search if you need to learn how to add HTML coding for links to your web page.

The text link will look something like this… Free Horse Clip Art

Like to see a special horse clip art graphic on this site. Leave me a comment with your suggestions!