Don't Be In A Hurry – a Barrington, New Hampshire Leather Collection

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world designs.

An August study.

Barrington, New Hampshire keeps its ponds among the pines and its two old roads crossing where they always have. We spent August pressing the town into leather, and the collection named itself: Don't Be In A Hurry.

First, the town's best advice. We set DON'T BE IN A HURRY over a small woodstove with the kettle just coming to steam, and hung it on the luggage tags, where slow words get to travel.

The Don't Be In A Hurry woodstove stamp design from the Barrington, New Hampshire leather collection.

The golden tan and the deep pine green tags take the stamp blind. The black tag carries it in gold – firelight on stove iron. It looks genuinely beautiful.

Golden tan, deep pine green and black leather luggage tags stamped Don't Be In A Hurry, from the Barrington, New Hampshire collection.

The same stamp sits low in the corner of the toiletry bags, honeyed russet over deep espresso brown, where a morning routine can take the hint.

Honeyed russet and deep espresso leather toiletry bags stamped Don't Be In A Hurry, from the Barrington, New Hampshire collection.

Next, the ponds. A dropped stone sends its rings out toward a shore fringed with white pines, with BARRINGTON riding the bottom of the circle.

The pond-rings stamp design from the Don't Be In A Hurry leather collection of Barrington, New Hampshire.

We pressed it into the golden tan catchall tray at generous size – drop your keys in, and the rings have already spread.

A golden tan leather catchall tray stamped with Barrington pond rings, from the Don't Be In A Hurry collection.

Then the crossing, where the town's two old roads meet, each bending the way old roads do around whatever stood there first. The keychains carry it in warm tan and deep pine green – keys leave by every road and come home to the same crossing.

The crossed-roads stamp design from the Don't Be In A Hurry leather collection of Barrington, New Hampshire.

Keychains with the crossing stamp look just awesome.

Warm tan and deep pine green leather keychains stamped with Barrington's crossed roads, from the Don't Be In A Hurry collection.

And finally, THERE IS ALWAYS MORE. A jug tips and the molasses coils into its pool; the phrase stacks up beside the pour. On a journal cover it stays plainly true – there is always another page.

The There Is Always More molasses stamp design from the Barrington, New Hampshire leather collection.

The journals run deep espresso brown and pale warm greige. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Deep espresso and pale warm gray leather journals stamped There Is Always More, from the Barrington, New Hampshire 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.

If Barrington is your town and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.