About us Leaf Lines offers many kinds of skeletonized leaves, and the patterns are varied, complex and beautiful Click here for closeup examples to see. Most of the available leaves can be seen by clicking here. A business card is on each image to show the relative size, but as you can appreciate, the leaves of any particular tree can vary widely. Booker Morey discovered a hand process for making certain tree leaves lacy in 1993. Each leaf is processed individually, by hand and is still done that way. While I was in my engineering/consulting career, I did woodturning as a hobby. As you may know, wood turning really took off as a craft attracting many people of exceptional skills and high artistic talent over the last 25 years. I had good skills, but not the artistry that many of the better turners had. I was looking for a way to differentiate my work from others, and saw some pictures of work by the famous British natural artist, Andy Goldsworthy. He had stitched together a canvas or flag of real leaves, and in the center had drawn a circle. Every leaf and part of leaf inside the circle had been skeletonized, and I was struck by the beautiful patterns the leaf veins made. I thought I could use them in my turnings, if I could figure out how he skeletonized the leaves. I was on a trip at the time, so I thought about it a lot, and finally decided that I knew how to skeletonize the leaves. When returned home and tried it, I failed miserably. That made me upset enough to keep trying until I did find the etching process that I now use. Then I found that people had much more interest in the leaves than the turnings, and it has grown steadily into my new career. I am very grateful that people find the leaves attractive, as I do, and it allows me to pursue the craft as a full time effort. It has been a full time effort for the past thirteen years. Leaf_Detail_Examples.htmlLeaf_Types.htmlHome.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1