Horse Tack Pins and Buttons
Description: For those who understand that some arrivals cannot be outrun, this pale horse rider design carries the calm of an ending already decided. Its hood holds no face to read, only a rider's bone-white grip closed around leather reins, while the horse beneath it wears crimson tack stitched like an old wound that never fully closed. Part of aswIDN Archives, Guardians of the Void collection. The pale horse does not run. It arrives.
Description: Ed Bacon opened his western store, Bacon's Boots & Saddles, in Globe, Arizona back in the early '50s, and while they sold all the typical western apparel and related goods, it was Ed's traditional hand crafted saddles that he was probably best known for. With unparalleled attention to detail, Ed hand-tooled every saddle, hand-stitched every seat and hand-shaped every cantle, all to customer specifications. Ed Bacon was a true artisan, creating a dozen or so custom saddles a year with his son Earl well into the 2010s despite swindling cowboys and working ranches in the area. Handmade saddles like those procured at Bacon's typically outlast the cowboys who own them, and most are handed down through generations like a classic car.
