Worth Keeping – a Provo, Utah leather collection

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From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies rooted in real-world places.

An August study.

WORTH KEEPING is a small leather collection rooted in Provo, Utah – four original stamps about the things a valley teaches you to keep, pressed into everything from journals to luggage tags.

First, the collection's namesake. We drew a bookplate in the old ex libris manner – WORTH KEEPING at its head, and beneath the words one empty ruled line, waiting for a name to be written in by hand.

The Worth Keeping bookplate die from the Worth Keeping leather collection of Provo, Utah.

On the journals it looks genuinely beautiful – deep pine green and deep wine, the colors of a good shelf.

Forest green and sangria leather journals stamped Worth Keeping in the Provo, Utah collection.

Next, the way water leaves this valley. FROM PEAK stands above the Timpanogos ridgeline, and one river line wanders down through the middle of the stamp. TO LAKE closes it beneath the ripples – the design reads downhill, the way the Provo River actually goes.

The From Peak to Lake watershed die from the Worth Keeping leather collection of Provo, Utah.

We pressed it on a pale greige tag for the limestone and a navy tag for the river water. The black tag carries the gold – alpenglow on a dark ridge.

Three leather luggage tags stamped From Peak to Lake in the Worth Keeping collection of Provo, Utah.

Then, the oldest recorded name here. Long before the modern city, this valley carried the Ute name Timpanogos – rock river. The stamp takes the name at its word – river stones with the current breaking around them, and PROVO beneath.

The Rock River die with five stones and three currents from the Worth Keeping leather collection of Provo, Utah.

Keychains in pale sea-blue and stone greige – water and rock. They turned out just awesome.

Two leather keychains blind-debossed with Rock River in the Worth Keeping collection of Provo, Utah.

And finally, for the woolen mills that ran on this river's power from 1872. We stitched a wholecloth quilt block out of running-stitch dashes and set a small star where the stitching gathers. MADE TO BE HANDED DOWN runs beneath it.

The Made to Be Handed Down quilt die from the Worth Keeping leather collection of Provo, Utah.

It sits in the lower corner of the toiletry bags, warm tan over deep espresso.

Caramel and dark espresso leather toiletry bags stamped Made to Be Handed Down in the Provo collection.

And it fills the base of the golden tan catchall tray – the dish where keepable things collect.

An arizona leather catchall tray stamped with the quilt design from the Worth Keeping collection of Provo, Utah.

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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