The High Desert Almanac, Volume III - a Garden City, Idaho leather collection
From the Practice Log -- an ongoing series of leather stamping studies.
An August study.
THE HIGH DESERT ALMANAC, Volume III -- five stamps for the gardeners of Garden City, Idaho, pressed into leather.
First, we drew Idaho's state flower the way an old field guide would -- one syringa blossom exactly face-on, a bud at its shoulder, the Latin name set beneath like a plate caption.
It looks genuinely beautiful.
On the trio, the forest green and pale sand tags take a blind press. The black tag carries the flower in gold.
Next, we borrowed the shorthand from a plant tag. FULL SUN LOW WATER is how the trade describes anything that thrives on high desert terms -- rabbitbrush, say, or more than one gardener we can think of. The sun rises at the top of the badge, and a single drop waits at the bottom.
Looks great when stamped onto the leather -- golden tan for the sun, deep green for the leaf.
Then we pressed a sprig of golden currant into the corner of the toiletry bags -- the riverbank shrub that opens the Boise River's year in yellow, leaves and berries and its own small label. The stack runs golden tan over chestnut.
For the catchall tray, we cut the gardener's whole year into one wheel -- twelve months around the rim, the four turns of the work inside, and a single seed at the hub, where every year starts.
And finally, the one we liked the most. The journal cover carries a black cottonwood leaf -- pressed flat, the way leaves end up between the pages -- above the words THE GARDEN REMEMBERS.
Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.
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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