Birchwood Saddle Trees received a £10,000 donation from Walsall Business Support to purchase a bespoke bandsaw, spin riveter and extractor to support the fast growth of the business. With over 30 ...

A man who claims to be the last to derive his income from solely making saddle trees for traditional Australian stockhorse saddles is hanging up the tools. There are a number of people who make ...

CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Christopher Cruise. FAITH LAPIDUS: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Some jobs require little or no creativity. Other jobs are all about ...

Montana saddle makers may work in one of the most tradition-bound industries around, but local craftsmen are as adaptable as anyone to changing markets and tastes. Local saddle makers say there are ...

CHIRENO, TX (KTRE) - A fine saddle starts with a vision, something of the sorts Gerald Mora of Chireno had. "I had a dream that we would have a saddle and leather show," Mora explains. "So I got up in ...

SHERIDAN — On a recent snowy afternoon, Radovan Krkos of Slovakia, better known as “Radd,” was working on a saddle tree in the basement at King’s Saddlery. “The grass is tall in Slovakia right now, ...

The art of saddle making can be traced back hundreds of years and master saddler Kate Hardt is playing her part in keeping these traditional skills alive. Published Mar 30 In her workshop in ...

FORT LUPTON – Barbara Kauffman was a systems manager for a high-tech firm in Boulder County when she decided to buy a new saddle. “My husband spent $80 for a book on saddles and I was so upset he’d ...

BILLINGS — When you run your hands across one of Chas Weldon's custom-made saddles, you're handling a practical, functional work of art that's meant to be used, not propped up in an art gallery or ...

LOVELAND — Rusty May bends over the bare bones of a future horse saddle, unwraps a long strip of leather that has been wrapped around the pommel like a tourniquet, takes up a maple dowel and begins a ...

In Australia, most members of the livestock trade, such as horse ranchers, are equipped with an RFID reader, thanks to the proliferation of radio frequency identification tags embedded in cattle and ...