By Nick Pernokas 

Clay Miller was raised by an artistic family in Farmington, New Mexico. He did a few leather projects at a young age, but then became interested in sports at school. Clay’s dad was a racehorse trainer Read more

Andrew Boomer rounds out a high school teaching career with an ever-evolving creative sideline. 

By Lynn Ascrizzi 

It all began with “a cheap, mass-produced pair of spur straps,” said Andrew Boomer of Bluff Dale, Texas, as he began Read more

“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 

“We’re a bunch of rednecks here cuttin’ up dead cow skins,” jokes George Canfield, the self-described “chief bottle washer” at EDC Leather in Springfield, Missouri. Though his self-effacing humor and Ozark-y charm makes for a fun Read more

Family bootmaking business has roots in Lubbock, Texas, and Juárez, Mexico.    

By Lynn Ascrizzi 

“It’s difficult to find bootmakers, or ‘zappateros,’ as we call them. They are disappearing.”  — Iram Cobos 

Since his early teenage years, Ruben Cobos Read more