By Nick Pernokas 

Daniel S. Preston passed away on the morning of October 14, 2022, in a hotel in Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico. The former owner and editor of ShopTalk! magazine died as he had lived, a solitary man. By Read more

Ten leather companies share how the pandemic affected their lives and businesses 

By Lynn Ascrizzi 

This past fall, we wondered how leather retailers and manufacturers have been weathering the infamous 2020 coronavirus.  

To find out, we talked to a diverse sampling of the owners and operators of 10 leather companies, large and small, who in the recent past have kindly shared know-how, family histories, beautiful product shots and glimpses of Read more

Andy Warhol Went Thataway

New Exhibition Spotlights the Artist’s Love of the Cowboy Way

Andy Warhol, Cowboys and Indians: John Wayne, 1986 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.1998.1.2493.1

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Texas Folklife staffers, left to right: Charlie Lockwood, Ian Hallagan, Eugenio del Bosque Gomez.

The Real Life of Texas Folk

By Gene Fowler 

“It’s practically died off,” said rawhide braider Travis “Rowdy” Pate, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio circa Read more

The Reinventions of Tyler Beard

By Gene Fowler

“As a child,” wrote the late Tyler Beard in his 1999 book, Art of the Boot, “I had to be coaxed out of my Roy Rogers boots nightly.”

“He loved those Read more