Good Company – a leather stamping study of objects that belong together

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

A September study – Waterfall Volume II.

Good Company – a small collection about the way objects keep each other company. A good room is a conversation between very different things, and each of these five stamps presses one kind of belonging into leather.

First, the thesis. We stood five very different objects on one shelf – a slender floor lamp at one end, a low fern at the other – and set GOOD COMPANY beneath the row. Every silhouette is a different species, and the shelf still reads as one room.

Black-and-white GOOD COMPANY stamp artwork with five different household objects sharing one shelf, Waterfall Volume II.

It travels the three tags – navy and dusty rose, with golden tan between – three leathers keeping the same kind of company.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

A navy Blueberry leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the five-object GOOD COMPANY shelf.

A golden-tan Arizona leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the five-object GOOD COMPANY shelf.

A dusty-rose Parisian Blossom leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the five-object GOOD COMPANY shelf.

Next, we cut a circle into seven pieces, no two alike, and fitted them back together with clean white seams – IT ALL COMES TOGETHER arcs above. A catchall tray is where the day's loose pieces do exactly that.

Black-and-white IT ALL COMES TOGETHER stamp artwork with an assembled disc of fitted pieces, Waterfall Volume II.

On the golden tan of the tray it looks genuinely beautiful.

A golden-tan Arizona leather catchall tray blind-debossed with the IT ALL COMES TOGETHER fitted-disc design.

Then, the pair. A floor lamp leans a few degrees toward a potted plant, and the plant grows a few degrees toward the light – OLD FRIENDS. Keychains in warm tan and in pale sea-blue.

Black-and-white OLD FRIENDS stamp artwork with a floor lamp and potted plant leaning toward one another, Waterfall Volume II.

A warm Caramel leather keychain blind-debossed with the OLD FRIENDS lamp-and-plant design.

A pale sea-blue Turquoise leather keychain blind-debossed with the OLD FRIENDS lamp-and-plant design.

Then, the designer's secret. We drew one S-curve alone at the top, like the first line of a stanza, and beneath it the two objects that carry it – a bentwood chair and a tall pitcher – over the words THINGS THAT RHYME. A journal is where the rhymes get found.

Black-and-white THINGS THAT RHYME stamp artwork with one S-curve echoed by a bentwood chair and pitcher, Waterfall Volume II.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather – one journal in deep green, one in pale warm greige.

A Forest Green leather journal blind-debossed with the THINGS THAT RHYME chair-and-pitcher design.

A pale Gray Sand leather journal blind-debossed with the THINGS THAT RHYME chair-and-pitcher design.

And finally, the traveler. A suitcase seen from above, packed so that every unlike shape fits its neighbor exactly, with PACKS WELL WITH OTHERS beneath. It sits in the corner of the toiletry bags – a warm gray bag over a chestnut one, a stack that keeps its own good company.

Black-and-white PACKS WELL WITH OTHERS stamp artwork with an open case of fitted objects, Waterfall Volume II.

Country Gray and Sicilian Brown leather toiletry bags blind-debossed with PACKS WELL WITH OTHERS.

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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P.S.

An alternate navy Blueberry luggage-tag render of the GOOD COMPANY five-object shelf.

An alternate golden-tan Arizona luggage-tag render of the GOOD COMPANY five-object shelf.

An alternate dusty-rose Parisian Blossom luggage-tag render of the GOOD COMPANY five-object shelf.