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Handmade Trovelore Bounding Hare Brooch Pin, a full-gallop Brown Hare in tawny, olive-gold and warm brown textured embroidery and beads. Cotton, felt, sequins and beads. 1.75" x 2.6". Keepsake box included. Made in India. Preorder, arriving October 2026
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Why You'll Love It
A hare at full speed is one of the most purely physical expressions of joy in the natural world.
The Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus) is one of Britain and Europe's most beloved and most mysterious wild animals. It is larger than a rabbit, longer-legged, longer-eared, and significantly faster, capable of reaching 45 miles per hour in a full sprint across open ground. Unlike the rabbit, which retreats underground when threatened, the hare has no burrow. It lives entirely above ground, relying on speed, camouflage, and an extraordinary ability to change direction at full speed to evade predators. A hare at full gallop, body stretched completely flat and low with all four legs simultaneously airborne between strides, is one of the most dynamic and powerful images in the European countryside.
The hare carries one of the richest bodies of folklore of any European animal. In many traditions it is a lunar creature, associated with the moon, with magic, and with the ability to move between worlds. The phrase mad as a March hare refers to the spectacular boxing behavior of hares in early spring, when males and females spar in open fields in a display that observers have watched with delight for centuries. In Celtic tradition the hare was a sacred animal associated with the goddess Eostre, from whose name Easter derives. In many Native American traditions the hare or rabbit is a trickster figure, clever and quick-witted. The hare is an animal that humanity has always found extraordinary, and with good reason.
Trovelore's Bounding Hare Brooch Pin is one of the most naturalistically textured animal pieces in the entire collection. Where most Trovelore pieces use geometric bead patterning to construct their subjects, the Bounding Hare uses a complex mix of embroidery threads in multiple warm brown, tawny, and olive-gold tones to create a genuinely furry, textured surface of real depth. Small seed beads in olive-gold and dark tones are placed among the embroidery threads to catch light and suggest individual hairs catching sunlight, a technique that gives the hare's coat a lifelike shimmer that no single material alone could achieve.
The hare is shown in full horizontal flight, body stretched completely flat and low in the classic full-gallop posture, forelegs reaching forward, hind legs extended back, all four feet off the ground. The ears are laid flat back in the aerodynamic position of a running hare, worked in brown and cream with small beads tracing the inner ear detail. The large round eye is rendered with a dark iris and white highlight that gives it a genuinely alert, living quality. The white chest and underbelly area is worked in pale cream embroidery. The feet show individual toe detail in warm amber-gold beads.
At 1.75" tall by 2.6" wide (3.5 cm x 6.5 cm) this is a dramatically horizontal piece, significantly wider than it is tall, a format that is entirely faithful to the stretched, low, horizontal momentum of a hare at full gallop. The ruler in the product image confirms these dimensions precisely.
It arrives in Trovelore's embossed keepsake box with a story card, ready to wear or give.
This is a preorder item. The August allocation has sold out. We expect our next Trovelore shipment in October 2026 and will ship your order immediately upon arrival.
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The Hare and the Moon
The hare's association with the moon is one of the most ancient and geographically widespread mythological connections in human culture. In Chinese tradition the Jade Rabbit lives on the moon, visible in the dark patches of the lunar surface, pounding the elixir of immortality with a mortar and pestle. In Hindu mythology the hare is associated with Chandra, the moon god. In many African traditions the hare is a messenger of the moon. In Celtic and Anglo-Saxon tradition the hare was sacred to the moon goddess and was not to be hunted. Across Native American traditions the Great Hare or Great Rabbit is a creator figure of enormous power.
The convergence of so many independent cultures on the same association between the hare and the moon is one of the most striking patterns in comparative mythology. The hare is nocturnal, fast, and appears and disappears with the suddenness of moonlight. It lives above ground in the open, visible and invisible simultaneously. It boxes in the early spring light at exactly the moment the moon is transitioning. Whatever the specific cultural expression, the intuition that the hare and the moon are connected is one of humanity's oldest and most widely shared.
The Perfect Gift
The Bounding Hare is one of the most naturally appealing and richly meaningful animal pieces in the Trovelore collection. It works for hare and wildlife enthusiasts, for lovers of British and European countryside culture, for anyone drawn to the hare's extraordinary folklore and mythological significance, for lovers of naturalistic textured animal jewelry rather than geometric beadwork, for Easter and spring gifting, and for anyone who has ever stopped what they were doing because a hare ran across a field in front of them and felt, for a moment, that something genuinely magical had just happened. The complete keepsake presentation means it arrives ready to give.
FAQs
How fast can a Brown Hare run?
The Brown Hare can reach speeds of approximately 45 miles per hour in a full sprint, making it one of the fastest land mammals in Britain and Europe relative to its size. Its speed is its primary defense. Unlike the rabbit, which retreats underground when threatened, the hare has no burrow and relies entirely on outrunning predators across open ground, using sudden direction changes at full speed to break pursuit.
What is the difference between a hare and a rabbit?
Hares are significantly larger than rabbits, with longer legs and longer ears adapted for speed and long-range hearing. Unlike rabbits, hares do not burrow and live entirely above ground. Leverets, baby hares, are born fully furred and open-eyed and are immediately mobile. Baby rabbits are born naked, blind, and helpless in a burrow nest. Hares are also considerably faster and more powerful than rabbits, and carry a much richer body of folklore and mythological significance across European and world traditions.
What does mad as a March hare mean?
The phrase refers to the spectacular boxing behavior of Brown Hares in early spring, typically March, when females and males engage in energetic sparring contests in open fields. For a long time this was assumed to be male competition, but research has shown it is primarily females boxing males away when the females are not ready to mate. The behavior, which involves hares standing on their hind legs and hitting each other rapidly with their forepaws, looks genuinely frantic to human observers and gave rise to the idiom.
Why is the August allocation sold out?
The Bounding Hare proved more popular than anticipated in our August preorder allocation. We have secured additional quantity in our October shipment. Preordering now is the best way to guarantee availability.
How large is this brooch?
The Bounding Hare Brooch Pin measures 1.75" tall by 2.6" wide (3.5 cm x 6.5 cm), a dramatically horizontal piece whose stretched gallop posture is significantly wider than it is tall, capturing the full horizontal momentum of a hare at full speed.
What does it arrive in?
Every Bounding Hare Brooch Pin arrives in Trovelore's embossed keepsake box with a story card. It is ready to gift exactly as it arrives.
What is your return policy on preorder items?
Our standard 14-day return policy applies to this item. Returns are accepted within 14 days of delivery for store credit. If you have questions about the piece before purchasing, please reach out and we will do our best to help.
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