From Scratch – a leather stamping collection of kitchen wisdom

From the Practice Log – Shops Volume II of an ongoing series of original leather stamping studies.

A September study.

From Scratch – a small collection written in kitchen language, for people whose best things are homemade. Five designs, each pressed from its own black-and-white die.

First, the crest of the whole line. We crossed a rolling pin with a wooden spoon and arched MADE FROM SCRATCH over the crossing – true of a good cake, and true of most lives worth admiring.

A black-and-white stamping die with crossed kitchen tools and the words MADE FROM SCRATCH, from the From Scratch leather collection.

The golden tan tray takes it at full size. It looks genuinely beautiful.

An Arizona leather catchall tray blind-debossed with the MADE FROM SCRATCH kitchen-tool design, from the From Scratch collection.

Next, a sign for the door of your life. GONE FOR SECONDS hangs from its nail, tilted the way a just-flipped sign hangs – for the traveler who went back for another helping of the world.

A black-and-white stamping die of a hanging sign with the words GONE FOR SECONDS, from the From Scratch leather collection.

It travels in vivid magenta and in pale sea-blue. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

A fuchsia leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the GONE FOR SECONDS hanging-sign design, from the From Scratch collection.

A pale turquoise leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the GONE FOR SECONDS hanging-sign design, from the From Scratch collection.

The black tag carries the design in gold.

A black leather luggage tag gold-stamped with the GONE FOR SECONDS hanging-sign design, from the From Scratch collection.

Then, the sassiest of the five. A crowned sugar cube under the words SWEET ENOUGH ALREADY – a keychain that declines the sugar on your behalf.

A black-and-white stamping die of a crowned sugar cube with the words SWEET ENOUGH ALREADY, from the From Scratch leather collection.

A fuchsia leather keychain blind-debossed with the SWEET ENOUGH ALREADY crowned-cube design, from the From Scratch collection.

The black fob carries the crown in gold.

A black leather keychain gold-stamped with the SWEET ENOUGH ALREADY crowned-cube design, from the From Scratch collection.

After that, the morning. We set a round loaf on the horizon where the sun should be, its scoring fanned out like rays, and wrote RISE AND SHINE beneath – the bake and the day begin the same way. It presses into the corner of the toiletry bags, warm tan over chestnut.

A black-and-white stamping die of a scored loaf rising like the sun above the words RISE AND SHINE, from the From Scratch collection.

Caramel and Sicilian Brown leather toiletry bags blind-debossed with the RISE AND SHINE loaf design, from the From Scratch collection.

And finally, the journal, where the half-baked belongs. A bowl of dough swelling past its own rim above the words STILL RISING – every idea starts that way, and so does everyone still becoming something. In pale greige, near the color of raw dough, and in pale rose.

A black-and-white stamping die of risen dough in a bowl above the words STILL RISING, from the From Scratch leather collection.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

A Gray Sand leather journal blind-debossed with the STILL RISING bowl-and-dough design, from the From Scratch collection.

A Blush leather journal blind-debossed with the STILL RISING bowl-and-dough design, from the From Scratch collection.

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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