The Fifty-Four Thirty × Leatherius Woodman – a Boulder, Colorado leather collection

From the workshop – an original leather collection drawn from Boulder, Colorado.

An August study.

For Boulder – the Fifty-Four Thirty, five stamps named for the elevation the whole town shares.

First, the cornerstone. A luggage tag exists to tell a bag where it belongs, so we wrote the one address every local answers to – RETURN TO 5430 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL – and set the five tilted slabs of the Flatirons above it. It looks genuinely beautiful.

The RETURN TO 5430 stamp design from the Fifty-Four Thirty leather collection of Boulder, Colorado.

Two of the tags wear the foothills – honeyed russet for the sandstone and deep pine green for the ridgelines. The third is a pale greige, the color of first snow on the slabs.

Honeyed russet, forest green and gray sand leather luggage tags stamped RETURN TO 5430, from the Fifty-Four Thirty collection of Boulder, Colorado.

Next, the journals. On the summits above town a notebook waits in a metal box, and whoever makes it up signs a name and a date. We gave the journal the same standing invitation – a cairn over TRAIL REGISTER, with the line already ruled and an X to show where. It presses into the lower corner of two journals, one ink-dark espresso, one pale parchment greige.

The TRAIL REGISTER cairn stamp design from the Fifty-Four Thirty leather collection of Boulder, Colorado.

Dark espresso and pale gray sand leather journals stamped TRAIL REGISTER, from the Fifty-Four Thirty collection of Boulder, Colorado.

Then, the keychains. Grab the keys and go up the canyon – the oldest instruction in town. The road makes its hairpins between black rock walls and slips out at the top into a notch of sky.

The UP THE CANYON switchback stamp design from the Fifty-Four Thirty leather collection of Boulder, Colorado.

One fob is pale sea-blue for the creek that carved the canyon; the other is honeyed russet for the rock it carved. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Pale sea-blue and honeyed russet leather keychains stamped UP THE CANYON, from the Fifty-Four Thirty collection of Boulder, Colorado.

A ponderosa for the toiletry bags. Locals know the ritual: press your nose into the orange jigsaw of the bark and it smells of vanilla, some swear butterscotch. A fitting mark for the bag that carries your good smells. The stack wears the tree's own arrangement, honeyed russet plates over dark espresso furrows.

The PONDEROSA pine stamp design from the Fifty-Four Thirty leather collection of Boulder, Colorado.

Honeyed russet and dark espresso leather toiletry bags stamped PONDEROSA, from the Fifty-Four Thirty collection of Boulder, Colorado.

And finally, the catchall tray. Boulder Creek keeps still places where the current sets down what it has been carrying – an eddy is where the water rests. A tray is the house's eddy, so we drew the current coming to rest around the word EDDY and pressed it into golden tan, the color of a dry-grass creek bank in late summer.

The EDDY creek-current stamp design from the Fifty-Four Thirty leather collection of Boulder, Colorado.

A golden tan leather catchall tray stamped EDDY, from the Fifty-Four Thirty collection of Boulder, Colorado.

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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