Edition of One – a leather stamping study for one-of-a-kind people
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of leather stamping studies. Volume II.
A September study.
A handmade thing is printed exactly once. We call this collection Edition of One – four marks for the objects and people that exist in a single copy, pressed into leather that gets carried every day.
First, we borrowed the printmaker's pencil. In the corner of every print a small fraction records the edition – how many were made, out of how many. We drew the only fraction with nothing to prove, 1 over 1, and set ONE OF ONE beneath it.
On a luggage tag the mark makes a claim about the carrier. Two of the tags are warm red and pale sea-blue. The third is black, and the black tag carries the design in gold – the deluxe edition.
Looks great when stamped onto the leather.
The same mark sits low in the corner of the toiletry bags, warm tan over deep brown – an edition of one, packed to travel.
Next, the keychains. Every key on the ring was cut as a copy of some other key, so we gave the ring the one mark that has never been duplicated – a thumbprint, with THE ORIGINAL beneath it.
It looks genuinely beautiful – one fob in warm tan, the other in deep navy.
Then the journals. A printed book runs to thousands of copies; a notebook is written once, by one hand. THE ONLY COPY sits in the lower corner like a rare-book plate, because whatever gets written inside will never see a second printing.
Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather – one journal in deep wine, the other in deep brown.
And finally, the catchall tray in golden tan – where the unmatched things wait. We scattered the famous singles across the die, the sock that lost its partner and the button that lost its shirt among them, and wrote the tray's oldest name underneath: ODDS AND ENDS. One lone playing die sits in the scatter too – the only die in this study nobody has to cut.
It looks right at home in the golden tan.
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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