Vintage Merry × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world logos.

An August study.

For Vintage Merry.

First, we designed a little logo for you. It turned out amazing. Here is the name as the marketplace carries it today –

The Vintage Merry name set in plain black marketplace-style type on white.

– and here is what we propose. A signed piece outranks an unsigned one, so we gave Vintage Merry a signature of its own: the name set in a jeweler's cartouche, the little soldered plaque a collector turns a piece over to find, with a sparkle above and below.

A black-and-white maker's-cartouche stamp design created for Vintage Merry.

For the warm-up, we put the new mark on the luggage tags – golden tan for old gold-tone metal, deep wine for jewel-box velvet. The black tag carries the gold.

Black, golden tan, and deep wine leather luggage tags stamped with the Vintage Merry maker's-cartouche mark.

Next, the keychains. A keychain is a charm bracelet that happens to carry keys, so we draped a chain across the die, hung it with charms, and wrote the old counter greeting beneath – CHARMED, I'M SURE.

A black-and-white charm-bracelet stamp design reading Charmed, I'm Sure for Vintage Merry.

The black fob takes it in gold; the pale rose one takes a blind press. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Black and pale rose leather keychains stamped with the Charmed, I'm Sure charm-bracelet design for Vintage Merry.

Then the toiletry bags, black over dark espresso like a presentation case. In the corner we pressed a starburst brooch over the words SMALL TREASURES – a bag that will forgive you for filling it with toothpaste.

A black-and-white starburst brooch stamp design reading Small Treasures for Vintage Merry.

Black and dark espresso leather toiletry bags stamped with the Small Treasures design for Vintage Merry.

The catchall tray is where a necklace spends the night. So the golden tan tray got a strand of pearls at rest, clasp undone, with a line for the hour it keeps – BETWEEN WEARINGS.

A black-and-white resting pearl-strand stamp design reading Between Wearings for Vintage Merry.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

A golden tan leather catchall tray stamped with a resting pearl strand and Between Wearings for Vintage Merry.

And finally, the journals, in deep wine and pale greige – because attribution begins as handwriting. The cover carries a jeweler's glass with a tiny maker's mark just caught in the lens, and two words under it – LOOK CLOSER.

A black-and-white jeweler's magnifying-glass stamp design reading Look Closer for Vintage Merry.

Deep wine and pale greige leather journals stamped with the Look Closer jeweler's-glass design for Vintage Merry.

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 you're Vintage Merry and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.