The Eagle Rock Collection – an Idaho Falls leather stamping study

An August study.

Before 1891, Idaho Falls was Eagle Rock – an eagle's nest on a rock island at the one good crossing of the Snake River. We spent August pressing that story into leather: a five-stamp collection that runs from luggage tags to journals.

First, the crest. We put the eagle back on its rock – short columns of basalt with the river parting around them – and arched EAGLE ROCK above it.

An eagle stands on basalt columns in the Eagle Rock Collection stamp plate for Idaho Falls, Idaho.

It looks genuinely beautiful. A trio of luggage tags – warm red and pale rose, with deep navy for the river.

Three leather luggage tags carry an eagle on basalt from the Eagle Rock Collection of Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Next, the falls – which in this town are a made thing, water taught to step over a basalt ledge the full width of the Snake. We ruled that curtain of water into a round medallion and set THE FALLS beneath it.

The broad Snake River falls fill a round stamp plate in the Eagle Rock Collection of Idaho Falls.

Keychains in navy and pale sea-blue – deep water and spray. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Two leather keychains carry the Snake River falls from the Eagle Rock Collection of Idaho Falls.

Then, Taylor's toll bridge, the 1860s crossing the whole town grew out of. We set it small in the corner of the toiletry bags with TOLL PAID underneath – the kit is packed, you may pass. The stack wears honeyed russet over deep espresso, the colors of downtown brick.

Taylor's early river bridge becomes a stamp plate in the Eagle Rock leather collection of Idaho Falls.

Two leather toiletry bags carry Taylor's bridge in the Eagle Rock Collection of Idaho Falls, Idaho.

A catchall tray works the way a watershed works – whatever the day carried ends up in it. So we let the words run across the golden tan base in the river's own meanders: EVERYTHING FINDS THE RIVER.

Everything Finds the River follows a winding line in this Eagle Rock Collection leather stamp plate.

A golden tan leather catchall tray carries Everything Finds the River from the Eagle Rock Collection of Idaho Falls.

And finally, the one we liked the most. In 1891 the town crossed out its first name and wrote a better one underneath. A journal cover should keep that kind of edit – EAGLE ROCK struck through, IDAHO FALLS below it, and the year the ink dried.

Eagle Rock is struck through above Idaho Falls and 1891 in this leather stamp plate for the Eagle Rock Collection.

Deep wine and pale greige – ink and paper. Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

Two leather journals carry the town's 1891 name change in the Eagle Rock Collection of Idaho Falls.

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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