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I have been a design draftsman for over thirty years. As I began to approach retirement age, I wanted to find some way to use my experience as a designer to fulfill my retirement years in some meaningful way. Since I was working for a water jet company at the time, I started offering some of my medallion designs to local tile companies with the idea they could sell more tile by offering their customers semi-custom floor medallions. It was a win-win situation all around as the tile companies were able to offer services that cost them nothing while providing their customers with a beautiful medallion in the same materials as the rest of their floor.
While trying to come up with ideas for new designs, I started digging through nearly thirty years of design work files, and searched through stored away dusty boxes. I even pulled out some ancient doodlings to use as I began to put together an interesting collection of drawings. As the collection grew, so did my ideas of how to use the drawings. Recently, I discovered a whole new artistic world in leather crafting, and as I work on developing my skills in leather carving, I continue to work on old drawing, or new ideas to create interesting patterns for leather workers. I hope you will take a look around my web site and perhaps discover some patterns you can use to help you make beautiful items for yourself, your friends, or your customers.
I will continue to work on new ideas and designs just as long as people are interested in my patterns. I enjoy seeing how people have found different ways of using my patterns. If you use one of my patterns, I invite you to show it off and send pictures of your completed projects to me.