Chosen Well – a leather collection from the fruit packing line
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies. Volume I-C.
A September study.
A small collection about fruit work – how something good gets picked, and how it gets packed for someone else. We call it Chosen Well: four marks in the plain language of the packing line, pressed into leather.
First, the packer's roundel. We put one pear in an open hand and ringed it with PICKED BY HAND – the mark a good pear earns before it travels, so we pressed it into the thing that travels with you.
It stands upright on the tags in a golden tan and a deep orchard green – the crate wood and tractor enamel of any packing house. It looks genuinely beautiful.
And a third in a warm machinery red.
Next, the keychains. On a sorting line every fruit gets looked at before it ships, so we drew a pear whose stem is the checker's tick, one leaf still on, and set READY underneath. The fruit signed its own inspection.
Two fobs – one still green, one gone warm tan. Ripeness, in leather.
Then the toiletry bags. Good fruit ships in a net sleeve, so this pear wears its own – the diamond mesh drawn round the body, stem and leaf left free – with PACKED WITH CARE beneath. A bag whose whole job is careful packing felt like the mark's natural home.
Pressed blind into the honeyed russet stack over deep espresso. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.
And finally, the one we liked the most. Twelve pears seen from above, drawn as the sorting line sees them in the carton – and one pressed solid, the one that got picked out. CHOSEN WELL. Every fruit gift works this way; so does every good gift.
On the catchall tray the whole carton sits at full size in golden tan – a tray does its own quiet sorting every evening.
On the journals it stamps small in the corner, in pale greige and in deep espresso. Looks absolutely gorgeous 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.
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