Zigeunerzelt » Gypsy Wagons

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The freedom to travel the countryside was central to the Gypsies’ unique lifestyle. The Gypsy wagon we know today – or varda, to use the Romany word – evolved from the horse and bullock-drawn wagons used to haul goods. Around the middle of the 10th century, gypsies started to fashion highly decorated horse drawn homes on wheels, using the canvas covered `barreltop’ style, where canvas was stretched over iron hoops fixed to the trailer floor, (much in vogue for crossing the plains in the Americas, where the wagons were known as `prairie schooners’) or the straight-sided `Reading’ style, which later evolved into the grand homes on wheels favoured by English travelling showmen and fairground families.

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