Where There’s a Mum, There’s a Way 

Breakin’ the Rules Like Proper Brits: 

The Cambridge Satchel Story 

by Gene Fowler 

British mum Julie Deane found herself in a pickle one day back in 2008. Her eight-year-old daughter was being bullied at school and Deane decided to Read more

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Mean Jean Leather 

By Nick Pernokas 

Thirty-six-year-old Lyndsi McGee grew up in central California. In her twenties, she moved to Los Angeles. Perhaps it was the ghost of L.A.’s pop culture, that is so prevalent there, which fueled her love for 1960s Read more

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On the Fringe 

By B. Crawford 

People in Austin, Texas, like to live on the fringe of music, architecture, business and politics. But no one lives more on the fringe of the Austin fashion scene than Kimberly Brown, the founding force behind Read more

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Team Spirit is at the Core of a Year-Old, Growing Family Business 

Missouri company supplies leather and other custom cut parts, like sweatbands. And they offer leatherwork classes.  

By Lynn Ascrizzi  

Sometimes, what is small, nearly invisible and seemingly insignificant, is what holds things all together.  

Such is the case Read more

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Weinaug Leather – Classic Western with an Alien Twang

By B. Crawford

If you bring a knife to a gunfight, at least make sure it has a nice sheath. Tooling a bull on a dead cow is ironic.

These words of leatherworking wisdom come straight from Kingsbury, Texas, Read more

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Revisiting Western Skies Handmade        

Emergence of the Circle

by Gene Fowler 

Throughout the American West and Southwest, the vast cathedral of space that looms and soars above the landscape inspires and humbles all who behold it. In praise of this great natural temple, Read more

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Lost Dutchman Leather Nears Double-Digit Growth 

by Liisa Andreassen 

In September 2020, we ran an article about an up-and-coming entrepreneur Nate Walker, founder of Lost Dutchman Leather. We were excited to catch up with him again and learn all that’s happened since we last Read more

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Lifetime Leather Co. 

By B. Crawford 

ShopTalk! is proud to have supported the age-old skills and resilience of leather craftsmen for the last five years. In this, our yearly anniversary issue, it is only fitting that we reach back into our own Read more

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Duane Ballard Custom Leather 

Easy Rider

by Gene Fowler 

“As long as I get to mess with leather,” jokes artisan Duane Ballard, “I don’t really care what I’m making.” To prove it, he sports tattoos of a swivel knife and a traditional oak Read more

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Carlos Macias: The Lost Buckaroo 

By Nick Pernokas 

Forty-five-year-old Carlos Macias was raised in the small town of Elk Grove, California. This urban setting in a non-horsy family wasn’t the background that most people would think of for a cowboy. Carlos received a nudge Read more

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