View & Vine × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
View & Vine is Laura McGlynn’s travel practice in McMinnville, Oregon. She plans food-and-wine journeys through the Willamette Valley and up into nearby Washington, and she plans them from inside: she arrived in 2014 as a wine tourist herself, then moved her life to the valley and spent the years since earning her winery appointments and restaurant tables in person. Her line is “Red or White? It’s all in the details.” We believe her. And her name handed this study its subject before we picked up a tool, because everything in it hangs on the ampersand – one small character asked to hold a view and a vine together.
The site sets the name in plain type today, which is honest and leaves the field open. We recorded it as found before proposing anything; the study starts from that plain fact.
As found
The mark this study proposes
The proposed mark runs lengthwise: VIEW and VINE in steady capitals, joined by an ampersand drawn as a single curling grapevine tendril carrying one small leaf. Our first tendril carried a heavier leaf and read as decoration, so we thinned it until the ampersand stayed a letter that happens to grow. It does on the tag what Laura does on the ground, tying two pleasures into one continuous line.
Pressed
We pressed the study into forest green and warm caramel, the vineyard row and the tasting-room table of her valley. Black carries the mark in gold.
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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