Whirlwind Travel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Whirlwind Travel is a one-advisor shop in Gray, Maine, twenty minutes north of Portland, where Lisa Rideout has been planning family vacations and group cruises for around fourteen years. Her reviews tell of a thirty-four-person group she once sailed to Bermuda. Her name reached our bench the way it appears on her site – set in plain navy type – and plain type presses flat.
So the study began with the question the name itself asks: what does a whirlwind do, out on the water? It fills sails. The mark this study proposes is one gesture: a gust coiling twice at the left, sweeping out and rising into a single taut mainsail. The wind and the voyage in the same stroke, drawn at weights a two-millimetre brass die can hold.
As found
The mark this study proposes
Pressed
The leathers stay on her water: navy blueberry first – the color she already flies – then a pale sea-blue for the “Paradise Awaits” of it, and black, because gold belongs on black.
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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