The Three Stoops – a Brooklyn leather study from Cobble Hill to Park Slope
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world logos.
An August study.
This one is rooted in Brooklyn – in the walkable stretch that runs from Cobble Hill's stoops up to the old Greenpoint waterfront, with Park Slope holding the far corner against its park. We call the collection The Three Stoops, and we pressed what those streets handed us into leather, luggage tags first and the rest of the shelf behind them.
First, the design that names the collection. We measured the borough by its stairs and drew three stoops of three different heights, from the squat four-step to the long six-step climb, under the words THE THREE STOOPS.
It looks genuinely beautiful. The trio wears the territory – brownstone chestnut and waterfront navy, with a pale limestone greige to finish.
Next, the oldest fact on the map. Cobble Hill is named for a hill that is gone – the fortified mound was cut down during the Revolution – so we drew the rowhouses solid and left the hill floating above them as a dashed line, present the way remembered things are. COBLESHILL is the old spelling. A journal does the same work, keeping what the street has already forgotten.
Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather – one journal in deep espresso brown, one in pale greige, the brownstone and the limestone the blocks are actually built from.
Then, up to the waterfront. Greenpoint once made heavy rope and fine porcelain within a few blocks of each other, and we liked the pairing too much to leave it – a rope ring cradling one small teacup, GREENPOINT overhead.
It sits in the corner of the toiletry bags, navy over deep espresso – river water over pier timber. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.
After that, the local instruction we kept meeting: walk down Smith and come up Court. We bent that walk into a loop, arrows keeping the traffic honest, and put it on the thing that rides your keys around the same orbit – one fob in warm tan, one in street-tree green.
And finally, the phrase that fits every good gift this part of Brooklyn has ever wrapped: everything you never knew you needed. A small hand points down at the words, and the words sit in a golden tan catchall tray – the dish by the door that ends up holding exactly those things. This one is our favorite.
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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