Supreme USA Made Carriage Harness

In Amish communities, the pleasure driving harness is used for Saturday shopping trips to town and for driving families to weekly church services and gatherings, for which you would wear dress shoes. So, a fancy “Dress Shoe Harness for the horse”. The plain driving harnesses are made with heavier material for working horses. They are not as fancy, but they are tough like work boots. So, they are the "Work Boot Harness". Amish families rely on horses and harnesses, while others rely on modern pickup trucks. Pleasure driving harnesses are also lighter and more comfortable for the horse(s).

Harness ships directly from an Amish shop in Indiana. Allow 3-4 weeks plus an extra few days for shipping. Custom options may take 4-6 weeks.

Quality Drives Price

You will find cheaper mass-produced “Economy harnesses” made of thinner, imported plastic-coated webbing and imported leather, equipped with lower-quality hardware. Many are quickly assembled with loose stitching. An economy harness may just be fine for an occasional hitch-up; however, serious equine owners dependent on horses for daily use know a quality-made harness is what you pay for. Our Amish shop still makes harnesses the old-fashioned way, one harness at a time, to last a lifetime. They use premium Hermann Oak Leather or original USA BioThane® webbing.

The BioThane® company spends countless hours testing to evaluate adhesion to its hand-selected, USA-made polyester webbing. Imported plastic-coated webbings have high failure rates under tension and become brittle in cold weather. Thickness and grades of harness materials are selected based on the expectations that the harnesses will be used by other Amish families for working horses day in and day out, with lighter-duty harnesses designed for weekend pleasure trips to shopping and church.

Extra time is spent handcrafting each harness with rounded strap ends, and additional stitching pulled tight into the surface to reduce wear points at the stitching. See the standard sewing design picture. The shop uses the highest-quality stainless or solid-brass hardware available, including a USA-made stainless bit.

Each harness is then personally inspected by the owner and assigned a serial number before shipment. You will find that the attention to detail also provides a more comfortable-fitting harness.

BioThane® was developed in 1977 by the Polyurethane Polymer division of BF Goodrich to meet demand for a more flexible, high-performance horse-racing harness. The engineers worked closely with horse owners to create a line of synthetic belting for the tack and harness industry that would be far superior to leather.

BioThane® rinses clean in seconds. Since its inception, BioThane® has become the choice of professional football leagues for helmet chin straps and pad strapping, as well as for other industrial applications, including the US Military, the medical field, and EMS ambulances, due to its superior holding and cleaning capabilities. BioThane® verifies that all the raw materials used in their products are carcinogen-free.

The Amish prefer horse harnesses made of BioThane® because they are waterproof, UV-protected, do not mold or mildew, do not absorb odors, do not dry out or crack, retain their flexibility in cold weather, and are chemical-resistant.

When people depend on horse harnesses as either a full-time occupation or for an occasional outing, they will know harnesses made with BioThane® webbing are low maintenance with no unwanted surprises, even after years of service.

Supreme Leather Carriage Harness is made from Hermann Oak leather from the USA.

Since 1881, the Hermann Oak Leather Company has supplied superb-quality harness leather to American heritage harness makers—a true testament to the Amish way of making only high-quality, long-lasting products. Keep in mind Amish makes their harnesses for daily hard use so they must be made to withstand time under rigorous conditions in all seasons.