The Walk Home – a leather collection for Hillcrest, Little Rock, Arkansas
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of leather stamping studies.
An August study.
The Walk Home is a small leather collection drawn from Hillcrest, the streetcar-built neighborhood on the high ground of Little Rock, Arkansas. Three stamps about coming home, pressed into luggage tags and journals, keychains and toiletry kits, with one golden catchall tray for everything to land in.
First, we drew a box turtle whose shell is an old Craftsman house – gable and chimney above, a little porch roof over its head – with one line beneath: HOME GOES WHERE YOU GO. A turtle takes its whole house along, which is exactly what luggage is for.
The trio of tags runs pale sea-blue and deep canopy green, with a warm tan between them. Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.
The toiletry kits wear the same turtle in caramel over chestnut – the tones of old porch wood on Kavanaugh.
Next, a porch lantern with one moth still circling, and the words LEAVE THE LIGHT ON. It belongs on a keychain – the light stays on for whoever carries the key.
The black fob carries the lantern in gold; its pale sea-blue partner takes a plain deep press.
On the journals the same lantern keeps watch from the corner – one cover in dusk navy, one in honeyed russet, like lamplight.
And finally, the streetcar. Kavanaugh follows the old electric car line that first climbed the hill in 1903, so we drew the car at its last stop, the wire ending just ahead of it – END OF THE LINE. A catchall tray is where pockets end their day, and this one says so.
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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