Good Company – a stamped leather collection of five loyal animals

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

A September study.

Good Company is a small leather collection of loyal animals – five companions, each pressed onto the product that shares its talent. Every one of them stays useful long after the wrapping is gone.

First, the dog. We packed a suitcase and it sat down on top, ears up, settling the question – COMING TOO runs beside it, lengthwise along the tag, in classic caramel and in pale sea-blue.

The black tag carries the design in gold.

Black-and-white stamp artwork of a dog sitting on a suitcase beside the words Coming Too for the Good Company leather collection.

A black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with the Coming Too dog and suitcase design from the Good Company collection.

A caramel leather luggage tag blind stamped with the Coming Too dog and suitcase design from the Good Company collection.

A pale sea-blue leather luggage tag blind stamped with the Coming Too dog and suitcase design from the Good Company collection.

Next, the homing pigeon, a rolled note tied to its leg, over the words ALWAYS COMES HOME. Keys share the bird's one great talent – the keychain just makes it official. Pressed into navy and into warm red.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Black-and-white stamp artwork of a homing pigeon carrying a tied note above the words Always Comes Home for the Good Company leather collection.

A navy leather keychain blind stamped with the Always Comes Home homing-pigeon design from the Good Company collection.

A poppy-red leather keychain blind stamped with the Always Comes Home homing-pigeon design from the Good Company collection.

Then the raccoon, the one animal that scrubs everything it owns, holding its bar of soap under the family order WASH BEHIND YOUR EARS. It sits in the lower corner of the bag, warm gray stacked over deep espresso.

Black-and-white stamp artwork of a raccoon holding soap above the words Wash Behind Your Ears for the Good Company leather collection.

Country-gray and dark-espresso leather toiletry bags blind stamped with the Wash Behind Your Ears raccoon design from the Good Company collection.

For the catchall tray we posted the magpie, a ring in its beak, standing guard over its little hoard beneath ALL THAT GLITTERS ENDS UP HERE – keys and coins prove the point every evening. In golden tan.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

Black-and-white stamp artwork of a magpie guarding a key, coin and button above the words All That Glitters Ends Up Here for the Good Company leather collection.

A golden-tan leather catchall tray blind stamped with the All That Glitters Ends Up Here magpie design from the Good Company collection.

And finally, the elephant, who forgets nothing. We tied a string around its trunk all the same and set WRITE IT DOWN ANYWAY beneath, because that is what a journal is for. In deep green and in pale warm greige.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

Black-and-white stamp artwork of an elephant with a reminder bow tied around its trunk above the words Write It Down Anyway for the Good Company leather collection.

A forest-green leather journal blind stamped with the Write It Down Anyway elephant design from the Good Company collection.

A pale gray-sand leather journal blind stamped with the Write It Down Anyway elephant design from the Good Company 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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