Thanks . I like the idea too.
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Ah my friend a long story there. Why did we quit making wildrags? Probably foremost was that the silk we were famous for, the Sand Washed silk had stopped being made. This was a velvety feeling lil heavier silk than normal that was ideal for wildrags. We often heard I've been wearing them my entire life and these are the best I've ever had. So remember that large tsunami some years back that killed all those people? Well it killed all the silkworms too. So now ya have a finite amount of silk worms do you make silk for $75 a yard (interior decorating, drapes etc) or do you make this sandwashed silk that we were getting wholesale and wheeling and dealing for $6 a yard and sometimes less. Imagine Tijuana in Hebrew and Arabic and you got the LA Garment District. It's rampaging capitalism at its finest. So they stopped making the silk we were using and never for some reason started back up. So for the last several years we were really hunting for our material. a roll here and a roll there, 10 yds here, five yards there. We went from reliably having15-20 different colors to scrounging what we could.. Lack of silk was the main reason. Nichole always hated going down there. She just didn't want to. It's DIRTY and dangerous and just plain bad. It was near Skidrow and that was expanding and that was before things got really bad there. I was once, (while in a wheelchair recovering from a surgery), almost attacked by a whacked out homeless guy while sitting in front of one of the shops cause the wheelchair wouldn't fit inside the jumbleness of most of those shops. It was bad enough that my hand was on that Smith Mod 36 in my pocket. We haven't been down there since before Covid but I've seen pics and it's gone from really, really bad to really worse. So we don't make wildrags anymore. We still get calls rather often asking for more of the Sandwashed wildrags.
Yes I do take what I call Special Orders. Often times if you are looking for something specific that's the best way to go. Just give me a call or email or DM here. I like to do several Special Orders in each batch as well as some for In Stock to be sold through our website. Looking for something specific could be months till I get around to it again, ya just never know. On the current batch I had so many Special Orders I broke them up, based on date, into two batches.
That's great that ya got to catch up with an old friend! I too have a good friend that was severely injured in a wreck. He fell and got rolled on. Busted him up pretty bad internally. Glad your friend was able to pull through. This lil brown roan mare had just dropped me on my head right before this pic, I'm still dazed here. Fortunately I did land on my head so no damage done. Two cows were fighting and slammed into that wall behind us. No buck inter but she spooked and spun around 270 degrees . I made 180 degrees and come off. Ya know I'd of told ya the horse didn't live that could turn faster than I can ride. But I found her.
She did it to me three times over a few months. Nichole liked to use her for sorting calves from cows as she was a catty lil thing, Mecum Blue on the topside and Docs Hickory on the bottom:
Traded her straight across with my son Logan, for this bay gelding on the right. Just as athletic but not as explosively over reactive. Its worked out well for the old guy. Lil Sis is now one of the top horses in my son's string.
Ya know we talk a lot about retention in the sheath and I have tortured tested several personally. I can personally attest that when I took these unanticipated aerial dismounts that I lost neither my knife or my pistol!.
That's a nice rag, she did a good job serging that rag! Some buckaroos tie a knot in the horse's tail. This is not just decoration. If a guy were to get rimfired, tying the horse's tail in a knot allows the rope to fall free. Its the same knot as the Buckaroo Square knot only its reversed and backwards if that makes sense. I can't tie it but Logan can and Nichole can if she studies on it for a while.
