In So Many Words – a leather gift collection of the things we say to each other

Volume I-D: Gift-Fit Independent Study.

A September study.

In So Many Words is a small leather collection of the sentences we say to the people we know well. Five phrases, five objects, each one pressed where its person will find it.

First, we packed a suitcase with travel stickers and drew every sticker as an empty speech bubble – the stories it has yet to collect – between COME BACK above and WITH STORIES below. A send-off for the graduate, or for the friend finally taking the big trip.

The black tag carries the words in gold.

Black-and-white stamp design of a sticker-covered suitcase between the words COME BACK and WITH STORIES.

Black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with a sticker-covered suitcase and the words COME BACK WITH STORIES.

Poppy-red leather luggage tag blind stamped with a sticker-covered suitcase and the words COME BACK WITH STORIES.

Caramel leather luggage tag blind stamped with a sticker-covered suitcase and the words COME BACK WITH STORIES.

Next, we set SAW THIS AND THOUGHT OF YOU in stacked capitals and aimed a printer's pointing hand straight at YOU. It is the sentence the whole gift stands on, and the keychain repeats it every time the keys are picked up.

Black-and-white stamp design of a pointing hand and the words SAW THIS AND THOUGHT OF YOU.

Parisian Blossom leather keychain blind stamped with a pointing hand and the words SAW THIS AND THOUGHT OF YOU.

Blueberry leather keychain blind stamped with a pointing hand and the words SAW THIS AND THOUGHT OF YOU.

Then, a twin-bell alarm clock stopped at five past the hour, and beneath it the morning's oldest negotiation – FIVE MORE MINUTES. We stamped it small in the corner of a honeyed russet kit over deep espresso brown, where the private routine lives.

Black-and-white stamp design of a twin-bell alarm clock and the words FIVE MORE MINUTES.

Indian Summer and Dark Espresso leather dopp kits blind stamped with an alarm clock and the words FIVE MORE MINUTES.

After that, the tray. We put the day's pocket cargo in orbit – house key and car key, coin and folded glasses – around the words YOU MADE IT HOME. Every evening the objects land inside the ring and the sentence comes true.

It looks genuinely beautiful on the golden tan leather.

Black-and-white stamp design of five pocket objects orbiting the words YOU MADE IT HOME.

Arizona leather catchall tray blind stamped with five pocket objects and the words YOU MADE IT HOME.

And finally, the old trick and the better one. We tied a string around a raised finger and set a single line beneath it – OR WRITE IT DOWN – for everyone who swears they will remember. In deep wine and in pale greige.

Black-and-white stamp design of a reminder bow tied around a raised finger above the words OR WRITE IT DOWN.

Sangria leather journal blind stamped with a reminder bow around a raised finger and the words OR WRITE IT DOWN.

Gray Sand leather journal blind stamped with a reminder bow around a raised finger and the words OR WRITE IT DOWN.

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.

If you'd like any of these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.