Carriage Road – a leather stamping collection for Raymond, Washington
From the Practice Log – Volume I-B, an ongoing series of original stamping studies in leather.
A September study.
Carriage Road – a small collection of original stamps pressed into leather for Raymond, Washington, where sixty-some horse-drawn carriages and wagons still stand beside the Willapa. Each design begins as a black and white die and ends pressed into the goods.
First, we sent a stagecoach off at a brisk trot, trunks lashed to the roof, and set MAKING GOOD TIME underneath – the promise every coach ran on, and the one a luggage tag still makes.
The black tag carries the coach in gold foil. Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.
The warm red and the warm tan take it as a blind stamp.
The same coach rides the lower corner of a chestnut toiletry bag.
Next, we built a wheelwright's wheel – twelve tapered spokes on a broad hub – and let the rim carry RAYMOND ON THE WILLAPA. It looks genuinely beautiful.
On the keychains it becomes a badge for a pocket. Black carries the gold; the deep green takes a blind stamp.
And on the golden tan tray the wheel sits at full size, where keys and coins land at the end of the day.
And finally, for the journals – two wagon ruts climbing into timbered hills, over the words THE ROAD REMEMBERS. A journal keeps the same kind of record, one page at a time.
On warm tan the ruts read like a summer road; on deep green they run straight into the timber.
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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