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Bespoke Cowboy Bootmaker Zephan Parker's Formula to Keep Craft Alive

Bespoke Cowboy Bootmaker Zephan Parker's Formula to Keep Craft Alive17 mrt1 u 15 min

How do we keep craft alive in an over-technological society? Is it via the individual maker? Or more of a collective workshop approach? Houston-based bespoke cowboy bootmaker Zephan Parker has plenty of thoughts on all of it. Zephan used to write graffiti and listen to hip hop while wearing Ralph Lauren. Now he runs a custom bespoke cowboy boot workshop in Houston, Texas. All those things, it turns out, are very connected. I swear. Zephan and I get into plenty on this one...