He studied saddle-making in the early 1970s, and over time, his designs have become extremely refined. Spider Teller stamps his intricate floral patterns freehand into the soft leather while it is ...

Rusty May makes hand-tooled custom saddles for ranchers, riders and rodeo pros, in addition to other leather items. May is slowly getting back to work after his shop in Loveland was flooded last year.

From the first cut into a sheet of full-grain leather to the final finishing details, every Oliver saddle is assembled, stitched, tooled and completed by the same craftsman – Richard, Bryan, Zeb ...

One of leather artist Jerry Shaw's horse saddles in his work space in McKinney, Texas on August 15, 2012. Shaw does does everything from guitar straps to chairs, but his main focus is horse saddles.

If the saddle was hand-tooled, ... There was always the activity in the garage, with the shipments of rolls of leather or the saddle frames, called trees, being delivered to our house.

Buford's Bona Allen Tannery was long-defunct, but it represented an important piece of history -- founded in 1873, it grew to be the nation's largest producer of hand-tooled saddles, bridles and ...

Of the many items in the rapper’s order, Wilkinson was most excited to make the large leather portfolio. “He wanted it all hand tooled, front and back, with ‘Post’ in the bottom right ...