Nevada Field Marks, Volume III – a Reno, Nevada leather collection by Leatherius Woodman
An August study.
Reno stands where the Sierra front meets the high desert, and Nevada's wild originals live on both sides of that line. For Volume III we pressed a field guide into leather. The collection is called Nevada Field Marks – five badges drawn from the state's own official emblems, made to be known at a glance and collected one at a time. A field mark is the detail by which you recognize a wild thing the moment you see it, and every badge here carries exactly one, with a small III at the base of each ring to mark the volume.
First, the mountain bluebird, Nevada's state bird, perched on a juniper sprig at the heart of the badge. We stamped it on keychains in pale sea-blue – the male bird's own color – and in caramel beside it. It turned out lovely.
Next, the desert bighorn, head on and full curl, the growth ridges ringing its horns the way years ring a tree. We ran the trio of luggage tags in golden tan and deep pine green, and added a black one. The black tag carries the stamp in gold.
Then the Lahontan cutthroat, the old native trout of the Lahontan basin, arced mid-swim with its namesake slash plain beneath the jaw. The toiletry bags stack navy over chestnut, water over riverbed, and take the stamp low in the corner. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.
After that, the bristlecone pine, the state tree, wind-bent and still growing after thousands of years. On this badge alone the border tightens into rings like the grain of the old wood, and the whole emblem sits at the center of the golden tan catchall tray.
And finally, the ichthyosaur, the state fossil, a sea hunter from the warm ocean that covered Nevada 225 million years ago. A fossil is the oldest kind of journal entry, so we pressed the skeleton on the journals – one in warm stone gray, one in deep espresso brown. 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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