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Hello. My name is Gordon Andrus and it is a great pleasure to welcome you to Red Ox Brand Tools.  While you're here I hope you'll check out my In-Line Swivel Knife Sharpener, and the excerpts from my book, "Drawing Floral Patterns for Leather Tooling, with Acanthus Leaves and Scrolls."  I also invite you to check back from time to time and follow my instructional posts, commentary, videos, and other information relative to the leather arts.

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What is Form?

What Is Form?

The English studio potter Michael Cardew expressed an idea, that form is a thing not of the self, separate from the maker, and existing by itself.  This thought has intrigued me since I first encountered it thirty-five years ago.  My musings on this idea have leant direction to my creative life.  The realization — that this search for form need not be crowded by an over emphasis on oneself as creator, artist, and maker — is liberating.  There is freedom in the idea that form is something to seek after, to look for in the world.