Meet Me on the Square – a Denton, Texas leather collection

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of leather stamping studies.

An August study.

Denton, Texas runs its whole downtown life around one courthouse square. This August we pressed that square into leather – luggage tags and keychains for the pocket, journals and toiletry bags for the shelf, and one golden tray to catch whatever the day brings home.

First, the streets. Oak runs along the top of the courthouse block, Hickory along the bottom, Elm up one side and Locust down the other – so we built the frame out of the four street names and let the 1896 clock tower stand in the middle, with MEET ME ON THE SQUARE beneath it. The collection takes its name from this one.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

The Meet Me on the Square stamp design for a Denton, Texas leather collection, built around the courthouse clock tower and its four streets.

The tags run vivid magenta and golden tan, with a third in black. The black tag carries the design in gold.

Three leather luggage tags stamped with the courthouse square design from the Meet Me on the Square collection of Denton, Texas.

The catchall tray is golden tan, close kin to the courthouse's own sandstone.

An arizona leather catchall tray stamped with the courthouse design from the Meet Me on the Square collection of Denton, Texas.

Next, the music. This is a town that keeps time twice – once from the clock tower, and every night from its stages – so we drew a staff where the whole note is a clock, hands set at seven, with a fermata holding it as long as the evening wants. DENTON KEEPS TIME.

The Denton Keeps Time music and clock stamp design from the Meet Me on the Square leather collection of Denton, Texas.

We pressed it into the corner of the journals – stage black and pale rose, one for the set list and one for everything else. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Black and blush leather journals stamped with Denton Keeps Time from the Meet Me on the Square collection of Denton, Texas.

And finally, the bricks. Shopping downtown here has a name, hitting the bricks – so we laid a small running-bond wall and cut the phrase into it, one word to a brick, stepping across the courses like footsteps on old pavers.

The Hit the Bricks stamp design from the Meet Me on the Square leather collection of Denton, Texas.

Keychains wear it in brick and mortar – warm red and warm mid-gray. They look just awesome.

Warm red and gray leather keychains stamped Hit the Bricks from the Meet Me on the Square collection of Denton, Texas.

On the toiletry bags the wall goes up in honeyed russet over chestnut, stamped low in the corner where a maker's mark belongs.

Two leather toiletry bags stamped Hit the Bricks from the Meet Me on the Square collection of Denton, Texas.

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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