Saddle Up 2026 × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Saddle Up 2026 gathers BinSentry’s feed-management customers at the Four Seasons in downtown Houston, September 2–4. BinSentry calls the conference “exclusive,” and the itinerary reads like a host who knows the room is small enough to walk together: the first evening starts on foot, hotel lobby to a VIP party deck at the ballgame a few blocks off, then a full conference day of operations talk and first looks at what the team is building next.
The event mark is why we stopped. An astronaut faces you square in a cowboy hat, BinSentry’s grain-bin shield set on the chest, with SADDLE UP in bold capitals beneath. Houston keeps two working myths, the rancher and the rocket, and this mark folds them into a single figure without apologizing for either. Lines that assured take a stamp well.
The mark, as found
Pressed
We pressed it into a pair of colored leathers, blueberry for the deep navy of the print and country gray for the steel of the spacesuit. The black tag takes the mark in gold.
The walk to the ballpark
Since the whole gathering opens with that walk to the game, the companion honors it: a baseball whose seams loosen into lariat rope, one loop left open, the line reading HOUSTON TEXAS 2026. We tried keeping the seams closed at first, a tidy ball with rope texture, and the drawing sat there politely. It only came alive once the rope was allowed to leave the ball, and we are still deciding whether the open loop reads as a throw or an invitation.
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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