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Why carousel horses are flat on one side

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Why waste time carving details no one will ever see? Traditional wooden carousel animals are heavily decorated on the side facing the crowd, but the inner-facing side is left almost completely flat and unpainted to save the exhausted carvers endless hours of labor.

Why carousel horses are flat on one side
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