About Four Horsemen Leather & Archery
About Us
An Archery Customer and A Master Leather Craftsman In Partnership Bringing You the Ancient Craft of Fine Leatherwork
Chad: Co-Founder, Archer, & Customer
Oleg: Founder, Master Leather Craftsman, & Archer
Premium Custom Hand-Made Leather Products
Four Horsemen Leather is your source for premium quality, custom, hand-made leather archery equipment and gear. We are a North Texas based family owned business focused on the needs of traditional archers and bow hunters.
We provide the finest leather craftsmanship and custom hand-made leather archery Back Quivers, Hip Quivers, Traditional Quivers, Bow Quivers, Armguards, Belts, Bags, Pouches, and customized leather archery gear. We can custom make any leather item you can envision. All of our leather archery products are hand made with ancient leather working skill and artistry.
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The History of The Four Horsemen
Four Horsemen Leather and Archery master craftsmen have been producing fine traditional leather archery equipment and products for many decades. We came to form our business from an initial contact years ago between our most senior master leather craftsman and, me, a customer with a love of traditional archery.
This craftsman and the customer worked together to custom design a complete leather archery set of a traditional hip quiver, back quiver, archery belt, hip bag archery pouch, and a custom archery armguard; everything needed for traditional field archery and horseback archery in quality hand-crafted leather. The final result was so beautiful and impressive, with such unsurpassed artistry and functionality, that the customer and the master leather craftsman went into business together to form Four Horsemen leather & Archery.
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Today, we now bring this level of premium custom hand-made leather archery products to you. We hold quality, attention to detail, catering to our customer's unique needs and preferences, and customer service and satisfaction in our highest regard. We make these our goals and promise to you. Please see our Customer Testimonials to read what our customer say about our products.
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Ancient Disciplines of Leather Craft & Archery
Four Horsemen Leather & Archery artisan craftsmen have decades of experience history with fine leather working and traditional archery. Our Master Leather Artisan Craftsmen are also life time traditional archers themselves, as well. We design elegant archery functionality into every product we hand make leveraging a lifetime of archery experience. We offer our customers the unique union of these two disciplines and bring them together in the hands of our master leather craftsmen. From decades of experience, we make the most versatile, beautiful, and functional traditional archery equipment in the world.
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The Finest European Leathers & Dyes
We source the finest leathers and dyes from Europe and utilize the most advanced leather treatments that enable our leathers to last for a lifetime. We design and custom hand-make all of our products, leveraging ancient master leather craft techniques handed down from generations to our talented artisans including: side and hip quivers, back quivers, field quivers, bow quivers, armguards, archery guards, belts, bags, pouches, and accessories, all completely customized to the measurements, colors, and personalizations of our customers.
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Complete Customization to Your Preference
We customize our archery quivers to every detailed and preference for our customers. We are obsessed with detail and perfection, and the quality shows in our finished works. We also make custom leather armor, knife and sword sheaths, leather masks, and almost anything you can envision crafted from leather.
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We can custom design ay aspect of our hand-made you can imagine, with any artwork, symbols, lore and logos, in amazing detail and in any leather color you wish. And, our prices are unmatched given the artistry and premium quality of our work. You will find no finer hand-made leather craftsmanship than Four Horsemen Leather & Archery.
The Story of Our Master Leather Craftsman
We want to share with you the story our our master leather craftsman and archer. Oleg is a traditional archer and leather craftsman who, since childhood, was inspired by three things: horses, because his grandfather was a forester and had horses; archery, because of the artistry and skill required; and sailing, with one of his first books being “Captain Grant's Children”.
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Oleg was born in Kazakhstan, where there was no ocean to sail upon, no archery school, and no horseback riding school. However, Oleg always enjoyed making things with his own hands and drawing, so he painted visions of the sea and horses, and made toy bows and arrows as a young child. This passion from his youth shows its early inspiration in Oleg’s work today.
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After moving to Belarus, Oleg met his wife Alena. Alena influenced Oleg to become a master leather craftsman, as she made leather jewelry, interior flasks, and vases decorated with leather. Together they form a passionate and skilled team. Oleg entered an institute in Minsk, and started competing in horseback archery competitions and evolved his skill to enter in major horseback archery tournaments in Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Korea, and Turkey. Meeting many skilled archers and craftsmen from different countries, Oleg learned a great deal about different archery techniques combined with the history of archery and traditions of many different cultures, and constantly evolved his own skills in combining traditional archery and horseback archer with leather working craftsmanship.
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Oleg was also heavily influenced by a memory of an old master saddle maker and the leather working process, how the master prepared and tooled the leather. Everything Oleg has done with leather since was subject to this impression. His passion to make even the most complex items from leather with the ease and grace like the old master, how to emboss using the Sheridan technique, how to tool the leather and work the dyes to achieve the perfect color, and the techniques for sewing leather in the same way as that master. Oleg gives all the credit to the talented masters who inspire him with their skill.
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Oleg has made many friends in different countries around the world who share his passion for horseback archery, and he has evolved his skill with every type of traditional bow across cultures. However, he has always stayed true to traditional archery. His experience gained over the years has shown that the skill and sport of archery has no boundaries and no limit to perfection. This forms an area of self-development where you can achieve a level of satisfaction and success each day, and at the same time, your skill is never perfected and there will always be something more to strive for. Perfection is the goal never achieved, only strived for.
For Oleg, his experiences have taught him that traditional archery and leather craft have one important similarity: you can strive for excellence all your life, and with dedication and hard work, you can achieve a level of success each day, but the ideal will always be somewhere ahead in your mind and in your future. This is what inspires Oleg today, and his dedication, talents, artistry and mastery show in his beautiful works.
Each of us are inspired by something ancient and mystifying about archery. It's intangible yet profound. It's connected to us, to our past, to our future, and to the idea that perfection is never obtained, only strived for.
Archery is a passion and that we bring to life with your inspiration. Whatever inspires you to be a better archer, we enable this with creativity and craftsmanship catered specifically to you. There are countless outlets for cheap archery products made in China which fall apart quickly. We provide the opposite.
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Our products last a lifetime. Your inspiration can too.
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Our Custom Hand-Made Products Process
Click here to read more about our hand-made custom leather archery product process and learn more about how we cater every item we make to your unique needs. Our Customer Testimonials speak for themselves and showcase the artistry, beauty and quality we deliver in every item we make.
