Tag Archives: bespoke

I inseamed four boots today and two yesterday. Also, I’m going to be very sore this evening.

Pretty turquoise alligator boots and a weird Smurf hand

On the bench today

This is the first pair of cowboy boots I ever owned. Jay let me design a pair of boots for myself while I was working for him; I did the boot tops and then Jay and Woody finished them. I … Continue reading →

My new deck of playing cards is available now! I worked on these for months and I’m happy with them. (They’re the reason I didn’t get a cowboy boot calendar done for 2025, sorry.)

These butterflies were an absolute pleasure to stitch. Here’s an excerpt from a presentation about cowboy boots explaining why butterflies were and are such a popular theme for cowboy boots: “One reason for the prevalence of flowers, butterflies, and occasionally … Continue reading →

I’m making a reproduction of an old Dixon boot, and as I was stitching this top band I was thinking of Andy Dixon, the designer for Dixon Boots, and wondering if he’d think I’d done a good job and hire … Continue reading →

My mentor Jay Griffith told me that boot makers used to save the cut-out pieces from an inlaid boot and use them to create an overlaid design on another pair of boots. Anyone need a pair of cowboy boots with … Continue reading →

Corrected the issue on the second brown boot this morning and got it on the last, and also lasted this pair of turquoise alligator boots