Hi! Popping over from the H/J and eventing world to ask a question for a friend.
What is the name of the circled decoration?
Thanks in advance!
I always heard them called rosettes. Sold in sets, all color combinations available. Some have flowers with and without the fan pieces. They are to emphasize the curve of the heavy neck, denoting power for work.
Rosettes are used on the tails as well.
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I always heard them referred to as “flowers”
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Name might be a regional difference or someone creating a name for the decorations. I sure never heard them called mane flowers! My draft friends would never look for them under that name.
Whatever name they go by I think they’re cool. I used the pom-pom style on my Clydesdale. 
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Its a mane roll with rosettes.
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I’ve heard & seen them advertised as Picks.
They come in mini size & I’m tempted 
Big Black Horse calls them Flowers
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@2DogsFarm You are just tempted because they are sparkly! Like me, you have a hard time resisting sparkly things. Those would be cuter than heck on Bugs! That photo has both rosette AND mane flower as a description, so any searchers will be able to find them! Ha Ha Good marketing.
We caught a Draft Club Clinic at Disney World in Florida of all places! Somehow we got to a location on the grounds where they had Disney employees showing Draft Club folks how to braid the roll into the manes, then add the rosettes, braid tails to hold the fancy, matching bows. harness the horse with the fancy show harness. You put the harness on your left arm, jump up on the tall bench, put it over the horse head and spread every thing on down horse back. Not sure I could hold up a complete draft harness, let alone jump up on that bench to put it on!!
It was YEARS back, when the Disney Percheron hitch, 8 plus black horses, were winning everything in the Draft show world. Husband got in a bit deeper with the workers by talking shoeing, asking about daily hoof and leg care in Florida. A real backstage tour! Also got to talk about their daily driver horses pulling the trams and how they were cared for. Eye opening on what they had to deal with in leg issues, skin issues in that type climate.
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You got me 
Of course I’d need to outfit him in a wee full collar & hames too.
With the li’l whirligig between them.
& In my Dreamworld, I then show him as:
Honey, I Shrunk the Percheron 
Put to a teeny hitchwagon.
With mini-kegs of beer loaded.
Emblazoned: 2 Dogs Brewery
Oooh! & A mini spotted puppy beside me.
Budweiser Dreams 
I’ve watched the mane rolls done & envied how much easier than the *#@! sewn-in Hunter braids.
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As long as we are deep diving into braid terminology, hunter braids are not sewn in. Fox hunters, eventers, cde, dressage and usually jumpers are sewn in. Hunterland is straight up yarn and fingers. #formerbraider
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Things must have changed since I showed Hunters in the late 80s to early 90s.
Every night of a 3-day show I had to cut out (with a seam ripper) the sewn-in braids I’d paid the braider to do that morning.
Wash, rinse, repeat for the rest of the show.
Back then we cheated & taped in Dressage braids.
Nope, that was yarn back then as well. But yes, they were removed with a seam ripper, just not sewn in.
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I was taught to braid (never got good enough to do my own) by adding a length of yarn into the 3-plait braid, that was then drawn up with a crochet hook, through itself at the base to make the “button” & “sewn” by tying off the yarn at the base of the braid so tight the seam ripper was need to get the braid out.
So, no needle & thread sewing, but that’s what we called the technique.
Kudos to you doing this professionally!
As early as I’d get to the showgrounds, I was never there before the braiders! 
They liked my TB, who had a mane very cooperative to being braided & never fussed while being done.
For my trolldoll mini, I put a running braid in for shows.
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Interesting, I have never heard the technique you describe called sewing. Hunter braids, with yarn, are removed with a seam ripper, but again, I have never heard them called sewn-in braids.
This is what I think of when I hear sewing, actually needle and thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R67khuNdB8
(random internet video)
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I have also braided hunter braids as well as sewn in button braids. I have also never heard of hunter braids called sewn in braids as its just yarn braided in and then a hook to fold up and create a button by knotting it. Seam ripper to remove so you don’t take the mane with it!
I sew my braids similar to the video but I use elastics at the bottom of the braid (for speed) and then sew it up. I’ve stabbed myself a few times with the needle (never the horses so far!) so I go with a dull needle. I also use a seam ripper to remove my sewn in button braids.
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So glad we usually roach our driving horse manes! They are not drafts so we don’t have to be traditional. I just run out of time trying to add braiding to the schedule! No manes show off nice necks, helps them cool faster on Marathon day. Multiples in Vet check reduces cooling time since they never believe the numbers, have to check them twice!! Doesn’t leave much water-pouring time to get numbers down before we need to leave again.
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Nope, that’s not what I paid for.
But, Wow! that’s a sewn-in braid!
