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

From the “Art Leather Center of the Whole Civilized World” 

by Gene Fowler 

Most entrepreneurs, when considering starting a business, get a common piece of good advice from family and friends. Before putting your own name above the “open” Read more