Known By Heart – a leather gift collection in the giver's voice, Volume I-D

From the Practice Log – Shops Waterfall, Volume I-D: an independent gift study.

A September study.

Known By Heart is a small collection of leather gifts that speak in the giver's voice. Each design says the thing you would want to say while handing the gift over – pressed into luggage tags, keychains and the rest of a five-product line.

First, the luggage tag for the one who is always leaving. We set COME BACK WITH STORIES in a single line along the tag's length, with a swallow gliding in ahead of the words and its flight path sweeping under them like one long underline – a send-off that asks for a better souvenir than a postcard.

It looks genuinely beautiful. The black tag carries the words in gold; the caramel and the deep forest green take the blind press.

The COME BACK WITH STORIES swallow-and-flight-line design from Known By Heart, shown as black die art on white.

A black leather luggage tag gold-stamped with a swallow and COME BACK WITH STORIES.

A caramel leather luggage tag blind-stamped with a swallow and COME BACK WITH STORIES.

A forest-green leather luggage tag blind-stamped with a swallow and COME BACK WITH STORIES.

Next, the keychain for a first car or a first front door. We cut a solid keyhole and left YOURS NOW open inside it in white letters – the fob wears the keyhole, and the key on the ring does the rest. Warm poppy red for the celebration, navy for the quiet handover.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

The YOURS NOW keyhole design from Known By Heart, shown as black die art on white.

A poppy-red leather keychain blind-stamped with the YOURS NOW keyhole.

A navy blueberry leather keychain blind-stamped with the YOURS NOW keyhole.

Then, the toiletry bag for the man nobody can shop for. PACKED WITH CARE arcs over a shaving brush and a razor, crossed and tied together with a small bow of string where they meet – pressed small into the bag's lower corner, discovered in private, which is how the words are meant. The stack pairs a honeyed russet bag with a deep espresso one.

The PACKED WITH CARE brush-and-razor roundel from Known By Heart, shown as black die art on white.

An Indian Summer amber leather toiletry bag blind-stamped with the PACKED WITH CARE roundel.

A dark espresso leather toiletry bag blind-stamped with the PACKED WITH CARE roundel.

Then, the catchall tray for the end of the day. EMPTY YOUR POCKETS arcs across the top of the circle, STAY A WHILE answers from the bottom, and between them a ring of drawn pocket things – a house key, a wristwatch and so on – circles a center we left empty on purpose. The real pocket contents land there every evening, on golden tan leather.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

The EMPTY YOUR POCKETS and STAY A WHILE pocket-object ring from Known By Heart, shown as black die art on white.

A golden-tan Arizona leather catchall tray blind-stamped with EMPTY YOUR POCKETS and six pocket objects.

And finally, the journal for the one who writes everything down, and for the one who keeps meaning to. A string tied in a bow around a raised finger – the oldest reminder there is – stands above SO YOU WON'T FORGET in the front panel's lower corner. One journal in chestnut, one in navy.

The SO YOU WON'T FORGET string-on-a-finger design from Known By Heart, shown as black die art on white.

A chestnut Sicilian-brown leather journal blind-stamped with SO YOU WON'T FORGET.

A navy blueberry leather journal blind-stamped with SO YOU WON'T FORGET.

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.