Mayatex quality name in saddle blankets
Phone 512-763-1907
 

“The Edge”

Six easy steps to give your company “the edge” over the competition.

 

Take advantage of hundredweight UPS shipping rates. You can realize nearly 50% savings per blanket in freight costs if you order in quantities whose combined weight exceeds 150 lbs.This would be approximately (35) 1314 Solid color blankets or their equivalent

 

Utilize our new six-lot discount at the very least. Order at least 6 of the same style blanket.

 

If you would like to try new products, utilize the samplers . They are discounted to the 24-lot level or the lowest discount available in our catalog. This could work if you trying out a new horse show location and did not know what the attendees would want to buy.

 

We have additional discount levels not listed in the catalog that start at 100-lot. Quotes will be given upon request.

 

Check out our closeout products that you may purchase at the 100-lot discount level with no minimum quantity required. We move any product that is not going to be carried in the next year's catalog to our closeout list. The decision to close-out a product occurs every fall of the year before launching the next year's catalog in early January and will continue to be deeply discounted until they are gone.

 

We also have second quality blankets (for those with non-discriminating tastes) from time-to-time that are deeply discounted. We can send you a list of these if you wish.

Hand Weaving

Hand weaving is accomplished by interlacing the threads of the weft and the warp on a loom.

A weaver at the loom showing the warp of the Mayatex saddle blancket

The warp (synthetic) is the thread that composes the skeleton of the weaving and cannot be cut without the blanket unraveling. It is the part that is manipulated by the loom with the use of a harness.

 

Weaver at loom showing the weft of a Mayatex saddle blanket.

The weft (wool), on the other hand, composes the body of the weaving and can be trimmed without the integrity of the weaving being affected. In hand weaving, the weft thread is carried by a bobbin that can hold enough thread to produce only a few inches of vertical length before expending its supply of thread.

This "bobbin end" must then be overlapped with another "bobbin end" and the process of weaving can continue until desired length is achieved.

Thick saddle blankets can have as many as 4 plys of yarn twisted together to form one strand of yarn. When these “bobbin-ends” pop up, due to washing or friction against the horse, the world may appear to be coming to an end! However, these may be trimmed off or tucked back under the warp thread.

Felted yarn (single ply) generally produces less hysteria because there is only one strand that will pop up. Felted yarns are generally thicker and more costly and are used primarily for the more expensive custom woven saddle blankets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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