What on earth is falconry furniture?

What on earth is falconry furniture?

Bit of a blip the other day when we were searching for a leather sofa on the internet, when one of the results led to a website all about furniture for falconry. Surely this couldn’t be a site selling bookshelves for Owls or sofas for Peregrine Falcons? Our curiosity got the better of us and we delved in…

 Falconry furniture actually refers to all the equipment used to train and control birds of prey. Each bird wears a bell and has an ID tag too, with a bracelet so long strips of leather called ‘tresses’ can be attached and the leash is then tied to the bracelet using what is called a falconer’s knot. You can even start to train your bird of prey with a ‘dummy bunny’ to get the bird into the swing of chasing rabbits!

 Getting even more sidetracked from our original mission, we then started looking for falconry courses so we could experience all this bird of prey malarkey for ourselves, as it sounds like it could be quite an amazing thing to do. We particularly liked the look of the falconry centre in Suffolk, as you get taught how to tie this famous falconer’s knot and you can take part in a workshop session learning to make things like the jesses and hoods out of leather.

 Now back to the search for our new sofa, which, quite frankly isn’t quite as intriguing as learning about falconry!