Bootmaker
Stephanie Ferguson
Stephanie Ferguson is a custom bootmaker in Millsap, Texas, who trained under Jack Reed in Burnet before going out on her own. A 2002 Texas Monthly profile called her the only woman then working alone as a bootmaker in Texas, known for flamboyant color and three-dimensional overlays such as hummingbirds, coconuts, flamingos, parrots, and morning glories.
History
Stephanie Ferguson was a custom bootmaker in Millsap, Texas. Joe Nick Patoski’s June 2002 Texas Monthly list describes her as an Ohio native and, at the time, the only woman bootmaker in Texas working alone; she had studied under Jack Reed in Burnet. (By that date, other women, including Deana McGuffin and Lisa Sorrell, were already working as bootmakers elsewhere in the state.)
Her specialties included flamboyant color and overlays — three-dimensional hummingbirds, coconuts, flamingos, parrots, and morning glories — with prices starting at $850 and a turnaround of six to eight months. David Allan Coe is named as a client.
Known for
Three-dimensional overlay work: hummingbirds, parrots, flamingos