The Care Package – a leather collection of parcel-room promises

The Care Package – an original leather collection. Shops Volume I-B.

A September study.

Every parcel room keeps a small tender vocabulary, stenciled on boxes and signed at the end of letters. We took those phrases at their word and pressed them into leather, where a shipping warning becomes a promise you can hold.

First, we redrew the oldest stencil in the freight room so the fragile thing inside is a heart. HANDLE stands above, WITH CARE below, and four plain corner marks hold the label together – a warning kept as a vow.

Black-and-white die artwork of a heart held by stencil corners between HANDLE and WITH CARE for The Care Package leather collection.

It stands upright on the luggage tags. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

A blueberry leather luggage tag blind debossed with HANDLE WITH CARE and a heart from The Care Package collection.

A blush leather luggage tag blind debossed with HANDLE WITH CARE and a heart from The Care Package collection.

A poppy-red leather luggage tag blind debossed with HANDLE WITH CARE and a heart from The Care Package collection.

The same heart rides low in the corner of the toiletry bags, navy over chestnut.

Blueberry and Sicilian brown leather dopp kits blind debossed with HANDLE WITH CARE and a heart from The Care Package collection.

Next, we gave a key a heart for a bow and set FOR KEEPS beneath it. A key is the one gift nobody leaves in a drawer, and this one says so.

Black-and-white die artwork of a heart-bow key above FOR KEEPS for The Care Package leather collection.

On the keychains it turned out just awesome – one in pale sea-blue, one in warm caramel.

A turquoise leather keychain blind debossed with a heart-bow key and FOR KEEPS from The Care Package collection.

A caramel leather keychain blind debossed with a heart-bow key and FOR KEEPS from The Care Package collection.

Then, the way every good letter used to end. A swallow carries an envelope across the cover, and WRITE SOON stands beneath it – a journal is where the writing back begins.

Black-and-white die artwork of a swallow carrying an envelope above WRITE SOON for The Care Package leather collection.

On the journals, dusty lavender and pale greige, the corner stamp reads like a postmark. It looks genuinely beautiful.

A lilac leather journal blind debossed with a swallow, envelope, and WRITE SOON from The Care Package collection.

A gray-sand leather journal blind debossed with a swallow, envelope, and WRITE SOON from The Care Package collection.

And finally, we wove a nest and arched SAFE AND SOUND over it, pressed at generous size into the golden tan catchall tray. Keys and rings land there each evening; the words say what the nest does.

Black-and-white die artwork of a nest with two eggs beneath SAFE AND SOUND for The Care Package leather collection.

An Arizona tan leather catchall tray blind debossed with SAFE AND SOUND and a two-egg nest from The Care Package collection.

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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