Pad Cloth for a Body Roller: Bound Kersey With Wavy Hogskin Pieces (Hasluck, Saddlery, 1904)

"The padcloth (Fig. 28) goes under the body roller, and is about 1 ft. 3 in. by 1 ft. Use the same material as for the sheet." For sheets he names kersey, fawn rugging, princess check, and fancy checked and coloured linen stuff; kersey is used here.

Cut the pad cloth in one piece, about 1 ft 3 in by 1 ft, and round the corners neatly.

Cut hogskin pieces of a wavy pattern, about 2 in wide: one for each end, 7 in long, in the centre, and one on each side of the centre (he gives no length for these; follow Fig. 28). Paste them on the inside, straight with the edges, let them dry, then stitch them in neatly.

Cut the binding cloth 1-1/4 in wide and turn it round the edges just enough to catch the first row of stitching, about 1/4 in from the edge. Draw it down as flat as possible and stitch another row along the inner edge of the binding. Put a strip of cloth about 1 in wide across the centre, its ends passing under the hogskin pieces and the binding.

From **Saddlery**, edited by Paul N. Hasluck, David McKay, 1904 (archive.org saddlery00hasl), chapter IX, "Horse Clothing", padcloth, pp. 70 and 72-73, Fig. 28; every fraction was read on the scan. He gives no length for the two side hogskin pieces. He says the binding work can be done by machine. The quarter sheet, breast cloth and hood of the same suit are not made here. Choosing kersey, the thread, tools and metric figures are ours.