Brick by Brick × Leatherius Woodman – a Fort Worth, Texas leather collection

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of leather stamping studies.

An August study.

For Fort Worth, Texas – a leather collection we named Brick by Brick, built from the city's west side and pressed one stamp at a time.

First, the Herd. The city keeps seventeen longhorns, one for each decade it had lived when the drive began, and we set all seventeen in single file along the long edge of the luggage tags, with THE SEVENTEEN lettered beneath. Count them.

Two tags walk in deep green and honeyed russet. The black tag carries the herd in gold, and it looks genuinely beautiful.

Black-and-white Seventeen stamp art from the Brick by Brick leather collection of Fort Worth, Texas.

Black leather luggage tag stamped with The Seventeen from the Brick by Brick collection of Fort Worth, Texas.

Next, Twice Daily, for the toiletry bags. The Herd walks at 11:30 and again at 4, and a toiletry bag keeps precisely that schedule – so two clock faces hold the drive times, with a longhorn mid-stride below them. The stamp sits small in the lower right corner of each bag, honeyed russet stacked over dark espresso.

Black-and-white Twice Daily stamp art from the Brick by Brick leather collection of Fort Worth, Texas.

Tan and brown leather dopp kits stamped with Twice Daily from the Brick by Brick collection of Fort Worth, Texas.

Then, the streetcar. Before Camp Bowie Boulevard took its name, a trolley ran west out of the Heights to a Texas lake called Como, and this fob wears its destination board: LAKE COMO. One keychain is pale sea-blue, the water at the end of the line; the other is deep green.

The little trolley looks just awesome pressed into the fobs.

Black-and-white Lake Como streetcar stamp art from the Brick by Brick leather collection of Fort Worth, Texas.

Forest green leather keychain stamped with Lake Como from the Brick by Brick collection of Fort Worth, Texas.

After that, the boulevard. It was paved in the twenties with red Thurber brick, and when smoother pavement came calling in 1976 the neighborhood answered with a sign that said SAVE OUR BRICKS. The city repairs those bricks to this day. We paved the catchall tray in running bond and gave three bricks the words – a tray is where the day's pocketful gets saved.

Black-and-white Save Our Bricks stamp art from the Brick by Brick leather collection of Fort Worth, Texas.

Arizona leather catchall tray stamped with Save Our Bricks from the Brick by Brick collection of Fort Worth, Texas.

And finally, the namesake, for the journals. A journal fills the way the boulevard was paved, each course resting on the one before, so the front corner of each journal carries a little wall going up and BRICK BY BRICK beneath it. One journal is honeyed russet, the other warm gray. Brick, and its mortar.

Black-and-white Brick by Brick stamp art from the Brick by Brick leather collection of Fort Worth, Texas.

Indian Summer leather journal stamped with Brick by Brick for the leather collection of Fort Worth, Texas.

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.

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