Editing Halter (section)

== Designs ==
[[File:Green rope halter 01.JPG|thumb|A rope horse halter]]
[[Image:Border Leicester closeup.jpg|thumb|Sheep wearing a cotton rope halter.]]

Halters may be classified into two broad categories, depending on whether the material used is flat or round.  Materials used include [[leather]], [[rawhide (textile)|rawhide]], [[rope]], and many different fibers, including [[nylon]], [[polyester]], [[cotton]], and [[jute]].  Fibers may be woven into flat webbing or twisted into round rope.  Flat or round dictates the construction method:  flat materials normally are sewn to buckles and rings at attachment points;  round materials are knotted or spliced.  Knotted halters often are made from a single piece of rope. 

The rope halter,<ref name="Visual">{{cite book|author=Cherry Hill|date=2012|isbn=978-1612122434|lang=en|page=61|publisher=Storey Publishing|series=Horsekeeping Skills Library|title=Trailering Your Horse: A Visual Guide to Safe Training and Traveling}}</ref> occasionally called a  "[[cowboy]] halter",<ref name="McFarland">{{cite book |language=en |title=Western horseman's guide to tack & equipment |first=Cynthia |last=McFarland |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |date=2013 |isbn=978-0762795987 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hp_2CANYU5wC&pg=PA11 |pages=8–11}}</ref> is associated with the [[western riding]] tradition, popularized with the wave of interest in [[natural horsemanship]]. It is called an "American halter" in France.<ref name="Fond">{{cite book|author=Laurence Grard Guénard|date=2008|isbn=978-2851807380|language=fr|page=66|publisher=Editions Amphora|title=Les fondamentaux de l'attelage: Galops 1 à 7 |trans-title=Driving fundamentals: gallops 1 to 7}}</ref> or an "ethological halter" {{lang|fr|licol éthologique}}, literally a "halter with knots".<ref name="Braun">{{cite book|author=J. Jack Braunschweig|date=2016|isbn=978-9522737922|language=fr |page=37|publisher=Atramenta |title=Psychologie équine et l'équitation Western: Éducation / Entrainement / Pleasure / Reining / Trail / Cutting / Working Cow, etc. |trans-title=Equine Psychology and Western Riding Education / Training / Pleasure / Reining / Trail / Cutting / Working Cow, etc.}}</ref>  In German, it is called a {{lang|de|knotenhalfter}}.<ref name="Tillisch">{{cite book |language=de |title=Kreative Bodenarbeit: Basisübungen und Erziehung an der Hand |first1=Karin |last1=Tillisch |publisher=Cadmus Publishing |date=2011 |isbn=978-3840460531 |chapter=Knotenhalfter |trans-title=Creative ground work: basic exercises and education in hand |pages=14–15}}</ref>

Show halters may be flat or round, but are generally made of leather or a similar synthetic and are designed to enhance the attractiveness of an animal's head as well as to exert precise control.