It’s February and that means blue horse heddles! Last year I did a couple of horses that had their slits carved through the painted surface, leaving the slits unpainted. This requires very high concentration as you’re carving the slits, as any mistake will show up as a dent in the paint, but I also love the feeling of the knife cutting through the cured oil paint. It has a sense of performance: A “now-or-never“ moment. I decided to make the full set of horses in this style and I really enjoyed it, even if my first idea that it would be faster to make a set like this because the painting is much faster turned out to be all wrong: When every cut shows, carving is a lot slower. But now, at last, they are done and ready for you!

There are 15 heddles going up for sale in the webshop on February 22, 21.00 Swedish time. Scroll down to the bottom of this blog post to see them in full view with measurements and prices.

These heddles are made of Swedish birch wood, which is light in color and shows up in the slits of the heddles. I have painted them with a linseed oil based artists oil paint in different blue tones, making sure to add a thin layer that doesn’t hide the woods own structure. At the backside of each heddle you’ll find my signature, a little name glyph consisting of my initials, “KN“.

**Hand for scale!**

All heddles in the gallery below have their measurements stated but in case numbers seem abstract, here’s my hand with a bunch of heddles from the set, from the smallest to the largest.

A note on shipping to the USA:
US Shipping is currently available! I will ship via UPS and you can read more about my shipping terms here. The most important thing I want to highlight is that as a US recipient of commercial goods you’ll have to pay additional import fees, which will be charged separately by UPS.

This set consists of 15 heddles that will be released on February 22, 21.00 Swedish time. The heddles will be for sale in the webshop, not here on the blog. This is a preview for you guys, so you can have a look at the heddles before they hit the web shop. Click or tap the images to enhance them and see the heddle measurements! If you are buying heddles from me for the first time you might want to read this blog post in preparation.

Ps. When browsing this blog post on a mobile device the text with the measurement + price info does not appear automatically when you tap a picture to enhance it. After enhancing the picture, look at the bottom right hand corner of the screen where there is a small white dot. Tap that and the info will appear!