The average size of a side of leather is 8-by-3 feet, making it 24-square-feet. It takes two sides of leather to make one saddle.

Spider Teller was raised in Owyhee and worked on ranches around Tonopah and in Idaho. He studied saddle-making in the early 1970s, and over time, his designs have become extremely refined. Spider ...

At the Montana Horseman Saddle Building School near Belgrade, students learn the art of western saddle making. The school is overseen by a master saddle builder, and attracts students from all ...

Saddle making hasn't changed much in more than a century, in part because nobody has been able to improve on traditional materials. Many of the tools that Weldon uses were developed years ago.

HOHHOT, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Sanding pieces of wood, cutting leather, and carving delicate patterns, Qinggltu, 39, makes saddles in his workshop in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia ...