I’m headed to Texas. So pull up your cuffs and drive friendly!

October 3 — Hug a junk gypsy (Round Top, TX.) October 5 & 6 — Bootmaker Round Up (Wichita Falls TX.) October 8 — Heritage Boots: Signing books & talkin’ boots 3-6pm (Austin, TX.) …you must come!

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I’m headed to Texas. So pull up your cuffs and drive friendly!

October 3 — Hug a junk gypsy (Round Top, TX.)
October 5 & 6 — Bootmaker Round Up (Wichita Falls TX.)
October 8 — Heritage Boots: Signing books & talkin’ boots 3-6pm (Austin, TX.) …you must come!

(AND… by appointment only, just about any Dairy Queen along 281 south of Wichita Falls, Oct 4 & 7.)

Watch this even if you don’t speak Spanish. You’ll hear the word “custom made” part way through. This is a beautiful portrait …full of wrinkles and frays. You are welcome to leave bits and parts of a translation in the comments below. I will be grateful and think you are cool.

I heard in an email [...]]]>

Watch this even if you don’t speak Spanish. You’ll hear the word “custom made” part way through. This is a beautiful portrait …full of wrinkles and frays. You are welcome to leave bits and parts of a translation in the comments below. I will be grateful and think you are cool.

I heard in an email that Sr. Cavazos has retired, and sold his shop to a friend and longtime apprentice.

Cavazos Boots (Nabor’s Boots)
Reyna Nabor, Bootmaker
8301 W Business 83
Harlingen, TX 78552
(956) 792-9918

Yes. These are the boots worn by Ariel (Julianne Hough) in the new Footloose movie. The cowgirl boots are made by Frye. They will sell out quick… maybe even before the movie comes out. After that, you will find many other swell red boots, but not these.

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Yes. These are the boots worn by Ariel (Julianne Hough) in the new Footloose movie. The cowgirl boots are made by Frye. They will sell out quick… maybe even before the movie comes out. After that, you will find many other swell red boots, but not these.

Already sold out in your size? Dying to have them? Check for red Frye boots on ebay.

For all your other Footloose merchandising needs, visit someplace else.

“Hey, hey! What’s this I see? I thought this was a party. LET’S DANCE!”

Vintage Red. Photo by loveandadventure.

…these are good too. I like variegated thread in the summertime.

eBay, you are such a heartbreaker… I’m going to pretend that Sam Shepard outbid me.

Piping

Narrow trim that runs along the boot top and side seams. Sometimes called the side welt.” White piping is popular throughout central Texas…on almost any color boot.

Bootmakers can buy piping in spools from supply companies, but often make their own to match custom designs and fancy materials.

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Piping

Narrow trim that runs along the boot top and side seams. Sometimes called the side welt.” White piping is popular throughout central Texas…on almost any color boot.

Bootmakers can buy piping in spools from supply companies, but often make their own to match custom designs and fancy materials.

Bootmakers will cut a narrow strip of leather, skive (thin) the edges… then lay a cord or string down the middle, giving the trim a smooth rounded shape. On the Dave Wheeler Boot (above) the custom made blue piping is a match to the 10 rows of hand stitching. Beautiful.

On the Rocketbuster boot (left) the piping is nearly disguised in the hotrod pin-striping design. Very cool. The pull is on the inside of the boot. You can see the red piping runs along the top of the boot and down the side seam. Notice how the piping is almost invisible, camouflaged in the narrow inlay and the criscross double-row red stitching.

The right-hand photo shows and old Tex Robin boot. The leather has worn thru and you can see the cotton cord. The piping on this boot matches the boot leather and lets your eyes focus on the stitch pattern. This pair was found at a Texas yard sale, I love how the previous owner left the fray hanging.

If you have a copy of my book. Flip through the pages… look at the piping. Tell me what you think in the comments below.

Top 2 photos by Marty Snortum. Bottom right photo, by me.

Today, I updated my bootmaker map and my big list of bootmakers… with 5 “new” shops.

Al’s Handmade Boots (Houston, TX); Candela Boot Co. (Weimar, TX); Mark James Designs (Rome, GA); R.L. Boyce Handmade Boots (Winthrop, WA) and Tim Alden Custom Boots (Rogue River, OR.) Go visit their websites. Like. Comment. Reshare.

Photo of Alvaro Rivera courtesy of Al’s [...]]]>

Today, I updated my bootmaker map and my big list of bootmakers… with 5 “new” shops.

Al’s Handmade Boots (Houston, TX); Candela Boot Co. (Weimar, TX); Mark James Designs (Rome, GA); R.L. Boyce Handmade Boots (Winthrop, WA) and Tim Alden Custom Boots (Rogue River, OR.) Go visit their websites. Like. Comment. Reshare.

Photo of Alvaro Rivera courtesy of Al’s Handmade Boots.

Vintage Dixon Boots. On eBay, $224.99. Buy them now. NOW!

Very groovy stitch pattern, 6 row-3 color-orange, green and yellow thread stitching. Worthy of reproduction. James Davis writes about Andy & Nobel Dixon here and here. The bootshop was in Wichita Falls… it looks like this pair hasn’t traveled far from home.

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Vintage Dixon Boots. On eBay, $224.99. Buy them now. NOW!

Very groovy stitch pattern, 6 row-3 color-orange, green and yellow thread stitching. Worthy of reproduction. James Davis writes about Andy & Nobel Dixon here and here. The bootshop was in Wichita Falls… it looks like this pair hasn’t traveled far from home.

(See what I mean about the orange-green-yellow stitching? Cool, no?)

Photo courtesy of ebay seller, “Texas Wild Woman Scavenger.”