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Leather is the perfect material for saddles. The unique traits it possess allows for a variety of saddle crafting. Including using different types.

The Story Behind Our Saddles With every Texas Saddlery saddle built, there is over 35 years of experience behind it. No other saddles on the market today can say what ours do. A lifetime of innovation, learning, and collaboration all pour into our custom saddles. Why? Because the man that makes them has made more saddles than anyone in the industry, ever.Dale Martin has built saddles his entire life. In over 35 years of building them, no man has learned more himself, or taught more people than he has. Many in the industry consider him to be the “Master”. Having...

Leather Craft ABC's IntroductionLeather, one of mankind's oldest natural resources, is a foremost gift to man from Mother Nature. Without it man might not have survived.The history of leather is closely merged with the progress of mankind. Long before man devised a written alphabet, he communicated through simple drawings or sign language. Many of these "messages" were done on skins of animals which he killed for food. With the skins of animals he was able to clothe and shelter himself. Modern archaeology has uncovered leather articles and artifacts from cultures dating back over 33 centuries and found them to be...