Around the Table – a Conway, Arkansas leather collection
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world places.
An August study.
In Conway, Arkansas, small brass toads set into the sidewalk tell you where to walk, and the town's first name was a railway stop. This month we pressed that world into leather, from luggage tags to a catchall tray – a collection we call Around the Table.
First, the namesake. We drew a table from straight above – eight place settings around one shared pie – and ran AROUND THE TABLE along the rim, because that is where every good thing in a town like this begins. We pressed it at full size into the base of a golden tan catchall tray, the dish where keys and rings land by evening.
It looks genuinely beautiful.
Next, we borrowed the town's walking instructions. A small toad, mid-hop, a trail of round brass markers behind it, and FOLLOW THE BRASS underneath.
The black keychain carries the stamp in real gold foil – brass finally doing what brass does. The warm gray one wears it blind, sunk into the leather the way the toads sit in the sidewalk.
Then, travel. CONWAY STATION in slab railway capitals riding a length of track, pressed lengthwise along three luggage tags. Warm tan and deep green wear it blind; the black tag takes the stamp in gold.
The same die lands small in the lower right corner of the toiletry bags, warm tan stacked over deep espresso – a dopp kit going wherever the trains once did.
And finally, FROM SCRATCH. A scallop-edged dough ornament with its string hole still showing, above the two words that govern any kitchen worth its flour. We pressed it into the corner of two journals, one warm red and one pale sand, because a recipe gets written down before it gets passed down.
Looks great when stamped onto the leather.
We made this out of love. Leatherius Woodman is on a mission to create and share artifacts of beauty, craft and love – this study is one of them, and we hope the feeling is mutual. Every image is a render – how we prototype before cutting a die.
If this is your corner of Conway and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.