Future Heirlooms – a leather collection for objects at the start of their long lives

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies.

A September study – Waterfall Volume II.

A museum is a house of ordinary things that lasted, and every one of them was brand new once. Future Heirlooms is a small collection of original stamps for objects at the start of their long lives – leather goods that plan on being handed down.

First, the flagship. We flipped an hourglass so the sand still sits at the top, and set FUTURE HEIRLOOM beside it, with ESTABLISHED TODAY underneath – every hundred-year-old thing had a day one.

Black-and-white hourglass stamp artwork reading FUTURE HEIRLOOM and ESTABLISHED TODAY for the Future Heirlooms leather collection.

It runs lengthwise along the tags, pressed into warm tan and deep green, and once more into deep wine.

A warm-tan leather luggage tag blind-debossed with a top-loaded hourglass, FUTURE HEIRLOOM, and ESTABLISHED TODAY from the Future Heirlooms collection.

A deep-green leather luggage tag blind-debossed with a top-loaded hourglass, FUTURE HEIRLOOM, and ESTABLISHED TODAY from the Future Heirlooms collection.

A deep-wine leather luggage tag blind-debossed with a top-loaded hourglass, FUTURE HEIRLOOM, and ESTABLISHED TODAY from the Future Heirlooms collection.

On the toiletry bags the same mark sits small in the lower corner, honeyed russet riding over chestnut. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Honeyed-russet and chestnut leather toiletry bags blind-debossed with a top-loaded hourglass, FUTURE HEIRLOOM, and ESTABLISHED TODAY from the Future Heirlooms collection.

Next, the keychains. We drew two hands meeting inside a ring, a key passing between them, under the words HAND TO HAND – the way keys spend their whole lives, and the way heirlooms get made.

Black-and-white circular stamp artwork of two hands passing a key beneath HAND TO HAND for the Future Heirlooms leather collection.

In deep brown and in pale warm greige.

A deep-brown leather keychain blind-debossed with two hands passing a key beneath HAND TO HAND from the Future Heirlooms collection.

A pale warm-greige leather keychain blind-debossed with two hands passing a key beneath HAND TO HAND from the Future Heirlooms collection.

Then the catchall tray. We laid a pocket watch to rest at the center, hands at seven, the day done, and set SAME TIME TOMORROW beneath it – an appointment the tray keeps for decades.

Black-and-white pocket-watch stamp artwork reading SAME TIME TOMORROW for the Future Heirlooms leather collection.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

A golden-tan leather catchall tray blind-debossed with a pocket watch at seven o'clock and SAME TIME TOMORROW from the Future Heirlooms collection.

And finally, the one we liked the most. Printers used to close a finished chapter with a small leaf ornament, so we moved that plate to the front cover, above the words TO BE CONTINUED – a family's story runs on long after the notebook is full.

Black-and-white printer's-leaf stamp artwork reading TO BE CONTINUED for the Future Heirlooms leather collection.

In deep green like an old library binding, and in warm tan. Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

A deep-green leather journal blind-debossed with a printer's leaf and TO BE CONTINUED from the Future Heirlooms collection.

A warm-tan leather journal blind-debossed with a printer's leaf and TO BE CONTINUED from the Future Heirlooms 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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