Please join us in Carriage Trade for a unique runway event featuring the ponies of Carriage Trade strutting their stuff on our special cat walk designed just for our horses and ponies.
They will be showcasing 18 looks from the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade. Show starts promptly at 12 noon PT, and lasts about 45 minutes. Join us for a rollicking good time. Look book and show special available.
Here’s an advance preview of the ponies, prepping for their big moment:
Crack team of 4 black Shires pulling the Ale Wagon through the bucolic Carriage Trade country side. Leaders are Armanni and Leo, Wheelers are Tyr and Ko, team driven by Lillie Vella.
The Gypsy Vardo at Carriage Trade's Tack Room
We are pleased to announce the release of the Carriage Trade Interactive Vardo Gypsy Caravan for both Drafter and Light Horse versions of the Water Horse avatar.
Your new caravan includes interactive capabilities designed to assist your roleplay. Please read the following notecard for details about everything that is included with this item.
1. Multiple poses throughout for both horse and human…
2. Changeable textures both inside scene and Camp scene.
3. RP items given by the scene
4. Day-driven lighting on Vardo.
5. Your choice of scenes: Inside, Camp, Both, or None.
6. Fully functional vehicle
Your new Vardo is a fully functional vehicle that can be driven by any of the passengers or horses. To change drivers simply type /1driver <name>.
The Vardo itself includes 2 horse poses (one pulling, one following) and 2 human poses (driver, and rider on back balcony).
Touch the front of the Vardo to put the shafts up or down.
Touch it again to rez your choice of Inside or Camp. Default derezzes any scene that may be displayed. CAUTION: do NOT rez scenes when driving!
Prim counts:
Vardo = 27
Inside scene = 52
Camp = 27
Full display (Vardo + Inside + Camp) = 106 prims
Functionality, Inside
Touch the table or the herb pots to change the textures and colors of the following:
Rug, Drape, Cover, Candle, Herb, and Wood. There are anywhere from 4-6 options for each to allow you to create the inside scene you wish.
Touch the candle to light it or blow it out.
Poses: Rocking Chair (sewing); beds: laying + sitting
Choose between Owner Only, Group, and All access modes.
Functionality, Camp
Touch the Log to receive a sausage to toast on the fire.
Touch the Butterfly to receive a tambourine for your dance!
Touch the Coffee Pot for a cup of coffee.
Touch the crystal ball for your Fortune!
Sit on the pillows to hear your fortune.
Sit on the crystal Ball to tell fortunes.
Sit on the rug to read an ancient book of gypsy spells.
Sit on the rose Log to watch the fire.
Sit on the Butterfly to dance those ancient Romany dances (and don’t forget your tambourine!)
Don’t leave your horses out: they can sit on the trees to stand and lay.
Touch the stump or the tree leaves to change the colors & textures of your camp including the 3 pillows, the rug, the rose bush, and the season of the trees.
Touch the candle to light or blow it out.
Choose between Owner Only, Group, and All access modes.
Visit the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade to purchase your very own Vardo in a choice of 7 colors for both Drafter and Light Horse Water Horse avatar. Each sold separately.
Gypsy Vardo in Use
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Tagged fortune teller, fortune telling, gypsy, paint, pinto, vanner, vardo, wagon
New this week in the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade: single and pair light horse buggies, drafter caleches, and light horse Royale carriages.
Single Light Horse Buggy Shown in Black
The buggies are all finely detailed with built-in reins, functional touch on-off side lamps, and shafts. The buggy has been carefully tuned and handles very well with any light horse, even the most fractious. It will carry a driver and a passenger, and a single horse to pull it. The buggies are available in Black, Grey, Cobalt, Pine, Wine, and Persimmon.
The Pair Light Horse Buggy shown in Cobalt
The pair buggies are all finely detailed with built-in reins, functional touch on-off side lamps, and shafts. The buggy has been carefully tuned and handles very well with any pair of light horses. It will carry a driver and a passenger, and a pair of horses to pull it. The buggies are available in Black, Grey, Cobalt, Pine, Wine, and Persimmon.
The Pair Drafter Caleche Shown in Persimmon
The Drafter Pair Caleche carriage includes built-in reins, functional touch on-off side lamps, and shafts. The caleche is a stylish and elegant vehicle, and handles well with any pair of great horses. It carries a driver plus two passengers and a pair of horses to pull it. The Caleches are available in Black, Grey, Cobalt, Pine, Wine, and Persimmon.
The Single Light Horse Royale Carriage in Black
The Single Light Horse Royale carriage includes built-in reins, functional touch on-off side lamps, and shafts. The Royale is a stylish vehicle suitable for taxi and livery service with easy in and out access for the passengers. It is well-balanced and handles well with any light horse. It carries a driver plus two passengers and a single horse to pull it. The Royale carriages are available in Black, Grey, Cobalt, Pine, Wine, and Persimmon.
Gorgeous Hay Wagons for both Team and Single Driving
We have new hay wagons for the draft horses in both singleton and team configurations in a vendor marked ‘new’ in the Tack Room.
The hay wagons come in Light Wood, Dark Wood, and Weathered Wood, and feature a mound of hat plus a pitchfork in the back! Hay wagons seat two people (the driver plus a passenger). Both versions have been carefully balanced to reduce tipping and rocking.
The team and singleton versions are sold each sold separately.
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A Stylish and elegant cart for all your driving needs
New In the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade: A drafter-sized Step-In Cart in both Singleton and Team orientation.
These step-ins have been developed specifically for the original WH drafter horse. These carts are beautifully detailed and feature scripted sidelamps, an attached buggy whip, reins, and shafts adjusted for either singleton or team driving. In addition, they have been balanced and tuned to deliver a superb driving experience so that even the novice horse or driver can have a smooth experience their first time out.
The team step-in even includes reinds and a buggy whip as well as side lamps!
The Step-Ins use a combination of sculpts and regular prims and careful scripting and texture work to create a showcase cart that is both stylish and functional.
The Step-Ins come in Black, White, Wine, Princess Pink, Hunter, and Navy and seat two passengers, plus one or two horses. Singleton and team carts are sold separately
The Drafter Singleton Step-in is well-balanced and ideal for estate driving.
Please visit Carriage Trade for all of your horse or pony needs!
********About Carriage Trade Pony Carriages********
These products are sold Copy, NO MOD, NO TRANSFER. The reason for this is simple: Our additions to the basic carriage (animations, poses, gestures, and other add-ons) are precisely placed so that they orient the driver, rider, or particle effect precisely. Changing the carriage by trying to do a simple resize for other sized avatars will result in an unhappy experience for the purchaser. We’ve had enough complaints from people trying to resize our carriages (who didn’t realise the reason their driver ended up embedded in the seat or worse was because of the scripting), that we decided to not allow modification to the carriages.
Happy Driving!
Lillie
Shenlei