Special Webbing

As many people say, dogs are man's best friend. We also like dogs and we like to take care of them. That's why we use the best materials to design our products for dogs. 

You already know about the quality of the bridle leather. Now it's time to talk about the special webbing, we use to design the Choker, the most beautiful and practical dog lead ever. This webbing is made with 100% cotton, that makes it more comfortable for the dog and nice to use for the owner. 

This webbing is designed in special colours only available from Hardy&Parsons' dog products. Do you like them?

(Black, navy, natural, special khaki, rust, red, saddle brown).

Now, we also have some new webbing which combines different colours. The leads you can see below are made with high visibility colours, so that we can see our dog and it can be seen in the darkness. 

Don't you think it's a good idea? We hope you like them!

Welcome Autumn!

Autumn is here and although some of you might feel summertime sadness there is no reason to be low! Watching movies on the couch, drinking a cup of hot chocolate in good company and enjoying a walk in a park full of tree leaves are some of the most typical things that we like to do when the weather becomes colder and the days shorter.

The countryside is full of beautiful places to walk around and we'd like to share with you some of the best to make sure that you take advantage of your free time this autumn.

Hurst Green to Oxted (Surrey-Kent)

Length: 4.7 miles 

Duration: Three hours

Start: Hurst Green Station

Finish: Oxted Station

Getting there: Two trains per hour (one on Sunday) run from London Victoria to Hurst Green (journey time: 39 minutes – 49 minutes on Sunday). Trains from Oxted also run to Victoria. Drivers should park at Hurst Green and get the train back there from Oxted, one stop down the line.

Walk notes: This is the short version of a satisfying and reasonably gentle walk along the hills of north Kent and Surrey, much of it passing through woodland along the Greensand Way. This walk is especially attractive in autumn, offering a beautiful show of russets, browns and yellows when the leaves turn.

Saunderton via West Wycombe circular (Buckinghamshire)

Length: 10 miles

Duration: Five hours

Start and finish: Saunderton Station

Getting there: Trains run hourly between Marylebone and Saunderton (journey time: 42-51 minutes). For those driving, Saunderton Station car park is free.

Walk notes: This walk combines an easy stroll in the Chilterns through a mixture of woodland and sloping meadows.

Alton circular (Hampshire)

Length: 13.1 miles

Duration: Six hours 30 minutes

Start and finish: Alton Station

Getting there: Two trains per hour run between London Waterloo and Alton (one hourly on Sundays; journey time: about one hour 10 minutes). Alton Station has a pay car park, which costs £3.60 a day. There is also a free car park near Kings Pond or you can park anywhere in the centre of Alton and walk to the station to start.

Walk notes: The quiet corner of Hampshire through which this walk passes seems like the kind of countryside in which nothing much has ever happened. Yet in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century it inspired two famous writers – the naturalist Gilbert White and Jane Austen. 

Don't forget to take with you the Conical Flask! The best way to bring water with you during the walk!

Billboard 20: releases of the week

Mademoiselle C

A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld.

Diana

The last two years of Princess Diana's life: her campaign against land mines and her relationship with surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan.

The Last Fall

The Last Fall tells the story of Kyle Bishop, a journeyman professional football player who retires broke at age twenty-five with no idea what to do next with his life. Forced to move back home and reconnect with his loved ones, Bishop struggles to deal with life's complexities after his professional career is over.

Special products: Conical Flask

Apart from the Tantalus, there is another special product within the Drinks Cabinet section. It is the Conical Flask.

Handmade in England in bridle butt leather, the conical flask consists of a leather case lined in suede and a conical drinking glass flask which fits inside it. 

Designed to be attached to the saddle, it can be opened easily with one hand using a thumb whilst still holding on to the reins with the other. 

Don't you think it's a perfect idea for a perfect product?

Billboard 19: Releases of the week

How to Become a Criminal Mastermind

Freddie, a desperate, naive young man, hires Bainbridge, a ruthless crime coach, to mould him into the perfect criminal.

42

In 1946, Jackie Robinson is a Negro League baseball player who never takes racism lying down. Branch Rickey is a Major League team executive with a bold idea. To that end, Rickey recruits Robinson to break the unspoken color line as the first modern African American Major League player. As both anticipate, this proves a major challenge for Robinson and his family as they endure unrelenting racist hostility on and off the field, from player and fan alike. As Jackie struggles against his nature to endure such abuse without complaint, he finds allies and hope where he least expects it.

In a World...

An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.

Rush

Set against the sexy, glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s. Based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between handsome English playboy James Hunt, and his methodical, brilliant opponent Niki Lauda. The story follows their distinctly different personal styles on and off the track, their loves and the astonishing 1976 season in which both drivers were willing to risk everything to become world champion in a sport with no margin for error: if you make a mistake, you die.

Borrowed Time

The story of two totally contrasting figures who come together in the most hostile of circumstances, only to form an unlikely bond that will help them both find a way out of their respective troubles. It is a bittersweet comedy about growing up and rediscovering youth in parallel, united by the subconscious desire to seek out the missing elements in their lives.

 

The Cosmonaut

What if you got back home... and there was nobody there? In 1975, the first Russian cosmonaut on the Moon is unable to make his way back and is declared missing in Space. However, through ghostly radio messages, he claims to have come back to Earth and found it empty, not a living soul. His unrealistic presence and his voice will little by little destroy the world of his beloved ones.

The Artist and The Model

The Artist and the Model is a meditation on mortality and artistic inspiration. It focuses on the encounter between Merc, a young woman who has left behind a war-torn Spain, and an old French sculptor when she starts to model for him.

Ready to go! Goodwood

Well, we are ready to depart!

Today Maurice Greig head for the south coast. Close to Portsmouth, he'll be in Goodwood,  the world's greatest celebration of car culture event!

From Friday to Sunday The Goodwood Revival will take place, a really magical step back in time, a unique chance to revel in the glamour and allure of motor racing in the romantic time capsule of the world's most authentic motor circuit. 

During this event, fashion and trends of motoring and aviation of the time will be exhibited. Goodwood is one of the most favourite client of Maurice Greig, the owner of Hardy&Parsons and a car lover. That's why he wants to be there supporting and enjoying this vibrating exhibition. 

Maurice Greig invites you to come along to spend a fantastic weekend surrounded by the most beautiful cars. Hopefully it'll be sunny and you'll be able also to enjoy some of the last days of the summer in the nearest coast, Porstmouth. 

See you in Goodwood!

If you need to know how to get there, just click here. 

Special products: Choker

We like special products, designs that are different and unique. We already showed you the Quick Release Belt. Hardy&Parsons is renown for this iconic piece that owes its origins to the firemen of the early 19th Century; as well as, the Drinks Cabinet or Tantalus that combines the skills of a cabinet maker and a master saddler. 

Now it is time for another special product: the Choker.

Handmade in England in bridle butt leather, this piece is special because it combines the classics dog collar and lead in one. One end of the strap has a ring and through that ring goes the rest of the lead. That creates a circle, where the dog places his head. The ring moves, so depending on the animal's pace, the lead will loosen or tighten. The other end of the lead has a handle.

This model is also available in webbing and leather combination. You can see all the detail photos here.

Why not try a new way to walk your dog?

Billboard 18: releases of the week

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth tells the compelling story of an extraordinary woman’s journey from her birth in a paper thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the twentieth Century. Walker made history as the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. A universal story of triumph against all odds not that different from Wlaker’s own. Born, the eight child of sharecroppers, her early life unfolded in the midst of violent racism and poverty during some of the most turbulent years of social/political changes in the U.S. The film offers a penetrating look at the life and art of an artist, a self confessed renegade and human right activist.

Any Day Now

In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he’s never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight a biased legal system to adopt the child they have come to love as their own. 

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.

About Cherry

A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer. 

Hardy&Parsons' Catalogue

Finally Hardy&Parsons' Catalogue is here! After showing you the online catalogue on Pinterest, now we'd like to present you the magazine we've designed.

You'll be able to see all our products with general and detail photos. The catalogue also contains full descriptions of each product, including details about the leather, the colours and the sizes.

Belts, dog collars and leads, key fobs, accessories, wrist bands and drink cabinets. All our products have their own space in this new catalogue that we'll update with every new product we design.

You can check the catalogue below, on this post. It is available also on the main page of the blog, on the top right hand corner. You can see the catalogue below, download it and share it.

We hope you like it!

 

Billboard 17: releases of the week

The Cairngorms in Winter

A celebration of the UK's largest and highest National Park, The Cairngorms in Winter with Chris Townsend takes the viewer on a spectacular 96 minute journey through awe inspiring scenery in the heart of Scotland's mountains.

The Clean Bin Project

Is it possible to live completely waste free? In this multi-award winning, festival favourite, partners Jen and Grant go head-to-head in an effort to see who can swear off consumerism and produce the least refuse. Their light-hearted competition brings some laugh-out-loud moments set against a darker examination of the problem waste. Marine pollution expert Captain Charles Moore describes the pacific garbage patch, an island of plastic twice the size of Texas currently floating in the Pacific Ocean; and Seattle-based artist Chris Jordan shares shocking images that portray the large-scale impacts of our 'throw away' society. The result is a beautifully shot film that speaks to audiences of all ages, inspiring action without being preachy, and providing solid ideas for reducing waste at home.

The Way, Way Back

Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.