LeMieux Watermelon Collection

LeMieux Watermelon Riding Wear and Horse wear

Discount Equestrian proudly presents the LeMieux® Watermelon Collection!

The wonderful Watermelon Collection by prestigious equestrian brand LeMieux® is said to complement coat colours such as piebald, palomino, and chestnut perfectly.

Stunning products available as part of the Watermelon Collection include:

* Luxe Hoodie

* Luxe T-Shirt

* Footsie Socks

* Fly Hood

* Loire Classic Close Contact Square

* Loire Classic GP Square

* Loire Memory Close Contact Square

* Loire Memory Dressage Saddlepad

* Loire Polo Bandages

Origin of the colour (courtesy of nationalgeographic.com):

“The watermelon has long inspired artists, such as Giuseppe Recco's Still Life With Fruit (1634-1695). The first color sketches of the red-fleshed, sweet watermelon in Europe can be found in a medieval medical manuscript, the Tacuinum Sanitatis.

To taste a watermelon is to know ‘what the angels eat’, Mark Twain proclaimed. […]

People have been eating watermelons for millennia. We know this because archaeologists found watermelon seeds, along with the remnants of other fruits, at a 5,000-year-old settlement in Libya.

Seeds, as well as paintings of watermelons, also have been discovered in Egyptian tombs built more than 4,000 years ago, including King Tut’s. One tomb painting, in particular, stands out. The watermelon depicted in the image is not round like the wild fruit. Instead, it has the now-familiar oblong shape, suggesting that it was a cultivated variety. […]

The first color sketches of the red-fleshed, sweet watermelon in Europe can be found in a medieval manuscript, the Tacuinum Sanitatis. Italian nobility in the 14th century commissioned lavishly illustrated copies of this text, which was a guide to healthy living based on an 11th century Arabic manuscript.

The Tacuinum Sanitatis is rich in horticultural imagery. Some of the illustrations depict the distinctive oblong-shaped, green-striped watermelon being harvested and sold, with a few cut open revealing the red interior. One scene depicts a farmer, a cheerful look on his face, as he drinks out of one end of the melon. Finally, a fruit fit for the angels. Today, 100 million tons of watermelon are grown annually worldwide. […]”