“If you can dream it, I can make it”

by Gene Fowler 

Mad Leather, Whitefish, MT. Bespoke custom leather apparel by tailor Milen Krastev and his wife, designer, Jenny Swank Krasteva. Photographs by Mandy Mohler of Field Guide Designs

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by Gene Fowler 

Prosser Martin, Del Rio’s Cowboy Outfitter 

“If made of leather, we make it” 

The late Prosser Martin of Del Rio, Texas, first crossed my radar in the 1980s, when I read a book about Dr. Read more

By Bill

Let’s jump back in time about 150 years. A great fire has turned Chicago into a city of ashes. The James Gang had robbed its first train robbery. Cowboys are driving thousands of cattle up from Texas Read more

By Edward Loya 

William “Bill” Henry Knight is widely considered one of the greatest stampers of all time. Due to family obligations, he cut his stamping career short, leaving leatherwork at the height of his craft, at age 40. Read more

By Bill

Visitors to the woods west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, marvel at the grand foliage of magnificent trees including red maple, black walnut and sycamore. For Nick and Leanne Polidore, the founders of Hemlock & Hyde, a booming producer Read more