Product Description
A collectible and fun little book on America's most fashionable footwear, Cowboy Boots is a close up look at the veritable trunk show of some of the most impressive cowboy boot designs from the most prestigious and famed bootmakers in the world, and is small and handy enough to carry with you when you're shopping for that next pair! From detail shots of stitching, to a focus on the design elements like flowers, steer heads, horses, crosses, initials, hearts, cacti, and horseshoes, there is plenty of quality craftsmanship to ogle over.
A great little idea book to have handy if you're a collector, a fan of the craftsmanship or in the market for a new pair.
Tyler Beard is the foremost expert on cowboy boots. He is the author of Art of the Boot, The Cowboy Boot Book, and 100 Years of Western Wear. He lives on a ranch with his wife, and together they run True West Design. Jim Arndt is nationally recognized photographer, with many books to his credit including Art of the Boot, The Cowboy Boot Book, and 100 Years of Western Wear. His work has been published and exhibited internationally.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #707540 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-09-27
- Released on: 2011-09-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
From the Inside Flap
Cowboy Boots is a tribute to America's most-recognized icon.More than 400 unique and sublime custom-made boots dizzy and dazzle the eye with their dropdead designs. From clean and simple lines to elaborate overlaid, inlaid, pinched, tooled, stitched, embroidered, and bejeweled gems, these boots are way over the top!
Whether you reside deep in the heart of Texas or in the concrete canyons of Manhattan, cowboy boots put your best foot forward.
Tyler Beard is a native Texan, so, naturally, grew up in a boots-and-hat environment. At age three, he received his first pair of red-and-green Christmas boots, a gift from his parents-"the pair that started it all." Tyler and his wife, Teresa, are considered the foremost experts on AmericanWest style. Tyler is the author of Lone Star Living: Texas Homes and Ranches (2003).
JimArndt is a nationally recognized advertising and editorial photographer. He maintains studios in Santa Fe and Minneapolis and shoots for clients such as Wrangler, Chevrolet, and Harley-Davidson. His personal work has also been exhibited in galleries in Santa Fe, Taos, and Austin. He continues to travel the West, working on his personal photos and collecting cowboy boots.
As the world's leading authorities on the cowboy boot, Tyler and Jim have collaborated on The Cowboy Boot Book (1992), 100 Years of WesternWear (1993), and Art of the Boot (1999).
About the Author
Jim Arndt is the author of How to Be a Cowboy and coauthor with Mary Emmerling of Art of the Cross, Art of Turquoise, Art of the Skull and Art of the Heart. He coauthored several Cowboy Boot books. He lives in Santa Fe.
Tyler Beard is the foremost expert on cowboy boots. He is the author of Art of the Boot, The Cowboy Boot Book, and 100 Years of Western Wear. He lives on a ranch with his wife, and together they run True West Design.
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After twenty years of research, it has become clear that there was no "first" pair of cowboy boots. As far back as we know, horsemen through the ages, all over the world, preferred higher-heeled boots. This represented a sign of nobility or a profession on horseback, above the ground, hence the old term well heeled. For millennia, horsemen have relied on protective footwear, including Attila the Hun in the fifth century, the Moors in the eighth, Genghis Khan in the twelfth, the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth, and horsemen throughout nineteenth-century Europe and the Americas. Man, his boots, and the horse have been inexorably linked in history, legend, myth, and our imaginations.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Kirsten B. Burt
This book is so fun! My passion for cowboy boots started several years ago, but it hasn't been till recently that I started paying for the best. This book is better than bad sex for sure! The craftsmanship that goes into some of those books is amazing. Every page is like a new piece of tantalizing candy. I love it so much that I show it off at my restaurant in Seattle for all to enjoy!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Jennifer June
Cowboy Boots picks up where Tyler & Jim's "Art of the Boot" leaves off. This book has more than 51 known makers, and nearly 400 pairs of cowboy boots... all photographed in crisp detail by Jim Arndt. Wow.
Here are just a couple of the very speical pairs:
Page 143. "The Mexican" is a remarkable pair of boots made by the El Paso company called Tres Outlaws. Your eye is naturally drawn to the 22 rare Mexcian coins inlayed across the pair...but what is more astounding is to discover that the tooling pattern on this "matching pair" each completely different on the right and left boot. The difference is difficult to detect because the design is so well balanced. An amazing tribute to the rich history and culture of Mexico.
Page 25. "Ray Jones Boots 1960-1970s with Eagle Inlay." Ray Jones was famous for the "plain" stitched boots he made for working cowboys. These boots show us another side of this maker's skill.
This book's small size lends itself to endless page flipping. After 3 years, I'm still inspired by the boots I find inside.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By j.arndt
TYLER AND I THINK THAT THIS IS ONE 'KICKIN' BOOK !!!
A GREAT COMPANION TO OUR OTHER BOOKS, 'THE COWBOY BOOT BOOK', ART OF THE BOOT', AND 'ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WESTERN WEAR'. ENJOY!
TYLER AND JIM
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