Who is Gayle Winde?
Diverse creative endeavors spanning from Seattle to Nashville encompass Gayle Winde's art and design career. With artistic flair and her personalized leather inlay approach, her work has gained worldwide recognition for its multi-dimensional imagery. Earlier creative years were dedicated to designing and creating wearable art at her gallery in Seattle's legendary Pike Place Market. Opportunity came along in 2003, leading to specialized creative work within the music industry, designing customized leather guitar and bass straps, harmonica bandoliers, and mandolin straps. Gayle's innovative work continues to flourish and expand with the addition of leather mixed media. From 2020 to the present, Gayle has been attending the renowned Art2Life Creative Visionary Program and the Art2Life Art Academy, founded by California's Fine Artist, Nicholas Wilton. Her new mixed media work has been happening behind the scenes and will soon be found on the website. Art such as collaged leather paintings, amazing leather masks, and sculpted 3-D leather assemblage art, to both enjoy and purchase.
Gayle Winde's distinctive art is rich in color, texture, originality, and authenticity. Her innovative work is meticulously created by hand, utilizing years of experience, knowledge, and skill. Believing in the joy and power of creativity continues to open doors to exciting creative adventures! This dedication to excellence in her craft lends itself to excitement for the future!
A Bit of History
Gayle's work has been featured in Seattle's tourist publications, various online art sites, the Pacific Northwest's "Sunset Magazine", and well-known guitar shows. Her beautiful guitar straps are worn by musicians around the world such as Bluesman Coco Montoya, the amazing slide guitarist Roy Rogers, the fantstic bassman Lawerence Hightower, the bass player for Sons of Leon, Nashville's own music star, Phillip Sweet, from the band "Little Big Town" as seen on the 2018 Grammys, and the great musician and songwriter Steve Cropper, at the White House for President Obama's "Soul Night Gala". A few of the many great musicians over the years. With her extensive design experience and unique ideas, Gayle Winde has created an outstanding collection of artisanal guitar straps. Her love for her art, her artisan craft, and music became the natural fusion of elements that led her to where she is to date.
Our Strap Design
Our guitar straps carry a great reputation within today's musicians' marketplace. The purpose of this excellent design was to provide outstanding comfort, functionality, and style options for musicians. Gayle's careful observation of standard straps worn by performing musicians led to her research and development of a comfortable and functional guitar strap that still offered style and beauty. Three standard strap design flaws became evident through her research: "inadequate fit", "poor balance with the instrument", and "lack of beautiful styles". After reaching out to musicians directly and inquiring what they would need and want in a good strap, she began to work with them, creating a functional and comfortable strap design. Through this process, the "Perfect Guitar Strap Wish List" emerged. By utilizing this valuable information and incorporating her years of design experience, important key elements were integrated into Gayle's exclusive design. Strap performance was improved, providing needed ergonomic comfort and proper balance and weight distribution for the guitar itself. Prototypes were developed and refined until a final draft was accomplished. From here, beautiful leather and various strap styles developed, and the rest is history. Today, our straps continue to evolve in ongoing originality of styles and beauty, providing ultimate comfort. Gayle Winde guitar straps can be summed up as "outstanding in comfort, distinctive in beauty, and luxurious in artisan quality."
Looking Ahead
Years of dedication and artistic vision have established Gayle Winde's credibility as a true artisan with an incredible collection of work. We hope you'll experience the caliber of our amazing guitar straps, putting to test this outstanding design. Every great guitar needs an amazing strap, and we are confident you'll find ours to be of the finest in the industry. The unwavering commitment toward excellence and artisan skill applied to every handcrafted strap is certainly a welcome change in our world of mass-produced merchandise! At Gayle Winde, fine craftsmanship revisits the importance of creating with integrity, quality, and pride ... this is our mantra!
Where Distinction, Beauty, and Comfort, Merge
