Between Chapters – a leather stamping study for readers and writers

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world logos.

A September study.

Volume I-D.

Between Chapters is a small leather collection for people who live around books – the reader who promises one more chapter, and the writer who is somewhere inside a draft. Four original stamps, one habit each.

First, we drew an open book the way it looks from far away – a bird in flight – and sent a small flock climbing over the words GOING PLACES. A luggage tag for the reader who packs the paperbacks before the clothes.

Black-and-white die artwork for the Going Places open-book flight stamp

It runs lengthwise along the tag, in pale sea-blue and warm caramel. The black tag carries the design in gold.

Pale sea-blue leather luggage tag stamped Going Places with open-book birds

Warm caramel leather luggage tag stamped Going Places with open-book birds

Black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with Going Places and open-book birds

Next, the promise everyone makes and happily breaks: ONE MORE CHAPTER, under the crescent moon that hears it most often. We pressed it on keychains in deep forest green and pale rose, and into the corner of the toiletry bags – warm caramel over deep espresso – for the reader who travels.

Black-and-white die artwork for the One More Chapter crescent-moon stamp

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Deep forest-green leather keychain stamped One More Chapter beneath a crescent moon

Pale rose leather keychain stamped One More Chapter beneath a crescent moon

Warm caramel and deep espresso leather toiletry bags stamped One More Chapter

Then, the catchall tray became a page. We folded its corner down into a dog-ear and wrote HOLD MY PLACE inside – the tray keeps your evening where you left it, reading glasses and all.

Black-and-white die artwork for the Hold My Place dog-eared page stamp

Golden-tan leather catchall tray stamped Hold My Place inside a dog-eared page

And finally, for the writer. The journal cover says FIRST DRAFT – except a small caret has already slipped in ahead of the first word, inserting VERY. The editing begins before page one does. In deep wine and pale greige.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

Black-and-white die artwork for the edited Very First Draft stamp

Deep wine leather journal stamped Very First Draft with an editor's caret

Pale greige leather journal stamped Very First Draft with an editor's caret

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 you'd like any of these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.