The Quiet Menagerie – a leather gift collection of animal temperaments, Volume I-D
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of leather stamping studies.
A September study – Volume I-D.
The Quiet Menagerie is a small collection of leather gifts stamped with cold-blooded character – a tortoise in no hurry, a python that keeps things close, a crocodile below a still surface and a frog that misses nothing. Five original stamps, one temperament per product, each meant for the person it names.
First, for the traveler who has never once run for a gate. We set a giant tortoise mid-stride beside IN NO HURRY, scutes and creased neck and all, so the luggage tag takes its owner's side at the carousel.
Black carries the tortoise in gold foil; golden tan and warm gray take the blind press.
Next, a ball python wound into its full defensive circle, head tucked safe at the center, above KEEP CLOSE – which is the entire job description of a keychain. Looks great when stamped onto the leather, once in deep green and once in warm caramel tan.
Then, the crocodile – or only the part of one that shows. A heavy-browed eye and the tip of the snout ride a single waterline, an armored trail of scutes behind them and STILL WATERS beneath. It presses into the lower corner of the toiletry bags, deep navy over dark espresso.
Then, we opened a passionflower flat across the golden tan tray – dozens of small parts held in one calm circle – and set EVERY LITTLE THING under the bloom. The tray does the same work every evening, gathering keys and whatever else the day picked up. It looks genuinely beautiful.
And finally, the one we liked the most. A tree frog hooks its toe pads over the top of NOTICE EVERYTHING and peers out with those enormous eyes – the field mark of the one who spots what everyone else walks past, pressed into the journal's lower corner. Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather, in deep green and in pale gray sand.
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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