After fiddling with knots during his college days at Montana State University, Nate Wald has become one of a handful of braiders leading a resurgence in the art of rawhide braiding.

Vince Donley and his wife, Judy, have a custom rawhide braiding business in Sundance, Wyoming, but for many years, he did rawhide braiding for saddle shops in different areas of the state. He ...