I am a horsewoman first, a chapmaker second.

I ride. Riding gives me a keen awareness of how ranch leggins should fit, feel, wear, and look, and is the essential foundation of my leatherwork.

I pass it on to you in the form of beauty, comfort, quality, and classic lines when I build your chaps, chinks, or armitas. My one desire is that you will feel, work, and look your best when you are together with your horse.

- Denise Stringfellow, Chapmaker

Stringfellow Tailored, LLC

AWARD WINNING WORK

  • 2021 Pendleton Leather Show

    • Chaps: Overall “People’s Choice” : The Beaded Crocus Shotgun Chaps

    • Chinks: 1st Place, Novice Division: The Red Bullhide Chinks

  • 2022 Cattle Baron’s Leather Show

    • Queen Chaps: Overall “People’s Choice” : The Miss Rodeo Oregon 2022 Chaps

  • 2022 Pendleton Leather Show

    • Chaps: 3rd Place, Open Division: The Yellow Jessamine Cross Chinks

  • 2023 Pendleton Leather Show

    • Chaps: 2rd Place, Open Division: The Miss Rodeo Montana Chaps

FEATURES

 

My love of textile construction came from my grandmother, a skilled seamstress who gifted me her devotion and love of crafts. She taught me to sew in my early years; on Saturday nights in front of the Lawrence Welk show on tv, we would crochet, bead, sew, glue and create all sorts of artwork. Combined with all the other elements of my childhood - music, sports, and doodling of all sorts - it’s safe to say creativity and imagination has always been within me. I marked up a lot of Pee Chees.

I started riding horses at age 20, but it would be years later that I began my career in leatherwork. I owe my start to the extraordinarily talented Julie Baugher at JBLD Leather School, and have been blessed to study with her, and other fine Western leatherworkers in the trade for several years.

My shop started in North Bend, Washington state, sitting on our 95-acre family cattle ranch and Christmas Tree farm. I still ride regularly around the ranch, in clinics, and on our new farm in Ellensburg, WA, and anywhere my trailer can take me. When not riding or leatherworking, I enjoy a blessed life with my husband, horses, family and friends, and give thanks always to my savior Jesus Christ, for He is good.

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