FERRARI.  The rocking horse

FERRARI.  The rocking horse

Once upon a time not so long ago, a family in Serbia who took their son and daughter on regular walks passed a field with horses would stop and look and wonder. The little girl ‘Lenka’ asked, “daddy one day can we have a pony” and daddy replied, “ one day we will ask uncle Geoffrey and auntie Jackie from England”. 

This is where our story begins. 

Creating a bespoke 'Cherry' Rocking Horse - literally from tree to finished horse

Fifty Thousand Rocking Horses!

Fifty Thousand Rocking Horses!

Ever since the first one was made (over 400 years ago, for Prince Charles) wooden rocking-horses have been a favourite childhood plaything, although by 1976 the traditional craft of making them was all but dead. “I made one,” says Anthony Dew, “and everyone liked it. I thought maybe the craft was ripe for revival.” So Anthony and wife Pat and set out to become rocking-horse makers.