For more than 30 years, Nancy Martiny has improved her craft of making horse saddles. In a business dominated by men, Martiny has built one based on making saddles that can’t be found anywhere else. Today, the wait for a “Nancy saddle” is six years or more. She makes her saddles for working horses and the cowboys and cowgirls who ride them.
Source: The New York Times, August 1, 2024. Link. (includes video) “My first saddle, it’s going to be here long after I’m gone,” she said. “And I like that. Not that I need my name to be carried on – just that the thing I built was sustainable. It wasn’t something that got used once and thrown away.”