WESTFIELD WHIP - SOME ORIGINAL MATERIALS

This is a piece of baleen ,what whales use to filter out small marine animals. The baleen is cut into small strips and then bundled, small strips of wood that look like quarter round are placed around the baleen, dipped in lacquer and bound until dry.



This is the trough of lacquer that is still used today to seal the whips.



Our young model PJ is holding the start of a whip with a baleen center after it has been bound. Today, fiberglass is used for many of the whip centers.



Goose quills are used to hold the lash on the end of the whip. As the quills are bound they tighten around the lash. To tell you the truth, I am not completely sure if they are used today. The lash looks the same as on most of the whips I saw.



These are horse hair whips and are still made from real horse hair. They are used as fly swatters to swat flys from the front of the horse when the horses real tail swat them in the back. The handles are wood carved to look like bamboo.