The Three Forks Collection – leather goods for Three Rivers, California

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

An August study.

Three Rivers, California – where three forks of the Kaweah come down out of the Sierra and Highway 198 climbs toward the big trees. We designed a small leather collection for the people who stop here, and named it Three Forks.

First, the collection's namesake. Three currents braid into one – and the merged river runs on to underline the name of its own town.

The Three Forks river stamp design for the Three Forks leather collection of Three Rivers, California.

On the luggage tags the design runs lengthwise, in the canyon's own colors – deep forest green and honeyed russet, with a pale sea-blue tag for the water. It looks genuinely beautiful.

Three leather luggage tags stamped with converging Kaweah currents from the Three Forks collection of Three Rivers, California.

Next, the same current crosses the toiletry bags – honeyed russet over deep espresso, bark over forest-floor shadow.

Two leather toiletry bags stamped with the Three Forks river design for Three Rivers, California.

Then the catchall tray in golden tan, with the confluence pressed at its center – the dish by the door for whatever a river day leaves in your pockets.

A golden leather catchall tray stamped with the Three Forks river design of Three Rivers, California.

Next, the journals. A sequoia keeps the slowest journal on earth, one line a year – so we let the sentence EVERY GOOD YEAR LEAVES A RING run the circumference as the outermost ring itself.

The Every Good Year Leaves a Ring sequoia stamp design from the Three Forks leather collection of Three Rivers, California.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather – chestnut and deep green, pressed in the lower corner where a signature would go.

Two leather journals stamped with sequoia growth rings from the Three Forks collection of Three Rivers, California.

And finally, the keychains. CHAINS REQUIRED, set like a winter sign on the road up, with a run of tire chain below – a rule every ring of keys already obeys.

Two leather keychains stamped Chains Required for the Three Forks collection of Three Rivers, California.

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.

If these belong in Three Rivers and you'd like them made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.