Kept Close × Leatherius Woodman – a leather gift collection of everyday keepsakes

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

A September study – Volume I-D.

Kept Close is a small collection about the things people carry every day, and about the habits a good gift can recognize. Five designs, each one made so a giver can look at a shelf and say – this is you.

First, a keychain for the one who is always the last one out. We hung a single key on its nail above the words LAST ONE OUT – the person every household and every crew quietly relies on to lock the door behind them.

The black-and-white LAST ONE OUT key stamp plate from the Kept Close leather gift collection about everyday roles.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

An arizona tan leather keychain blind-stamped with LAST ONE OUT from the Kept Close gift collection.

A dark espresso leather keychain blind-stamped with LAST ONE OUT from the Kept Close gift collection.

Next, the luggage tags. We tied a drawn string into a bow around the words IF LOST, DEARLY MISSED – a tag that finally admits what luggage tags are for. The black tag carries the words in gold.

The black-and-white IF LOST DEARLY MISSED string-and-bow stamp plate from the Kept Close leather gift collection.

A black leather luggage tag gold-stamped IF LOST DEARLY MISSED from the Kept Close gift collection.

A blueberry leather luggage tag blind-stamped IF LOST DEARLY MISSED from the Kept Close gift collection.

A poppy-red leather luggage tag blind-stamped IF LOST DEARLY MISSED from the Kept Close gift collection.

Then, the catchall tray. THE DAY ENDS HERE stands in the middle, and around it we set a ring of pocket things coming in to land, the way keys and coins find the same spot on the dresser every night.

The black-and-white THE DAY ENDS HERE pocket-things stamp plate from the Kept Close leather gift collection.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the golden tan leather.

An arizona tan leather catchall tray blind-stamped THE DAY ENDS HERE from the Kept Close gift collection.

Then, for the toiletry bags, a swallow over GO AND COME BACK. Swallows cross half the world and still return to the nest they built – which is the entire wish of anyone packing a bag for someone they love. The stack is honeyed russet over deep espresso brown.

The black-and-white GO AND COME BACK swallow stamp plate from the Kept Close leather gift collection.

Indian-summer and dark-espresso leather toiletry bags blind-stamped GO AND COME BACK from the Kept Close gift collection.

And finally, the one we liked the most. A journal for the cook who never quite obeys: a heaped spoon between A PINCH MORE and THAN IT SAYS, because every recipe worth keeping got improved without permission.

The black-and-white A PINCH MORE THAN IT SAYS spoon stamp plate from the Kept Close leather gift collection.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

A gray-sand leather journal blind-stamped A PINCH MORE THAN IT SAYS from the Kept Close gift collection.

A Sicilian-brown leather journal blind-stamped A PINCH MORE THAN IT SAYS from the Kept Close gift 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.

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

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An alternate black leather luggage tag gold-stamped IF LOST DEARLY MISSED from the Kept Close gift collection.

An alternate blueberry leather luggage tag blind-stamped IF LOST DEARLY MISSED from the Kept Close gift collection.

An alternate poppy-red leather luggage tag blind-stamped IF LOST DEARLY MISSED from the Kept Close gift collection.