The Rawhide Creek Collection -- a leather stamping study for Cuero, Texas

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From the Practice Log -- an ongoing series of leather stamping studies. Volume I-A.

A September study.

We designed the Rawhide Creek collection for Cuero, Texas -- a town that tells its own name as Spanish for rawhide -- and pressed it into leather, from luggage tags to journals.

First, the drive itself. On April 1, 1866, some eighteen hundred head walked north for St Joseph from just outside town, so we let the whole line cross the luggage tag -- longhorns in single file with a drover riding rear, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED HEAD above the line, NORTH FROM CUERO 1866 beneath their hooves.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

The black tag carries the drive in gold; the warm tan and the deep green take a blind press.

The black-and-white the long line stamp plate from the Rawhide Creek leather collection of Cuero, Texas.

A black leather luggage tags stamped with the the long line design from the Rawhide Creek collection of Cuero, Texas.

A caramel leather luggage tags stamped with the the long line design from the Rawhide Creek collection of Cuero, Texas.

A forest green leather luggage tags stamped with the the long line design from the Rawhide Creek collection of Cuero, Texas.

Next, the namesake. The name came down from hide-tanning days on Cuero Creek -- a leather story made for a stamp. We set CUERO over the creek's double bend and RAWHIDE beneath it, then pressed the corner of the toiletry bags, warm tan stacked on chestnut.

The black-and-white rawhide creek stamp plate from the Rawhide Creek leather collection of Cuero, Texas.

A caramel sicilian leather dopp kits stamped with the rawhide creek design from the Rawhide Creek collection of Cuero, Texas.

Then, the other drive. Before the trucks came, Cuero walked its turkeys down Main Street to market the same way it walked its cattle, and it still calls itself the Turkey Capital of the World. We gave the fob a tom mid-strut under that claim, with CUERO beneath his feet -- in warm red and golden tan.

Keychains with the strutting tom look just awesome.

The black-and-white turkey capital stamp plate from the Rawhide Creek leather collection of Cuero, Texas.

A poppy red leather keychains stamped with the turkey capital design from the Rawhide Creek collection of Cuero, Texas.

A arizona leather keychains stamped with the turkey capital design from the Rawhide Creek collection of Cuero, Texas.

Then, the tray for the counter by the door. A catchall holds whatever the day pulled from your pockets, so we ringed it in barbed wire and left the gate open at the top -- DON'T FENCE ME IN across the middle, at generous size on the golden tan.

The black-and-white dont fence me in stamp plate from the Rawhide Creek leather collection of Cuero, Texas.

A arizona leather catchall tray stamped with the dont fence me in design from the Rawhide Creek collection of Cuero, Texas.

And finally, the ledger. Every drive lived by its count. The journal's front corner carries TRAIL LEDGER over rows of five-stroke tallies, the last group left short -- the rest of the count happens inside. In deep espresso and a honeyed russet.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

The black-and-white trail ledger stamp plate from the Rawhide Creek leather collection of Cuero, Texas.

A dark espresso leather leather journals stamped with the trail ledger design from the Rawhide Creek collection of Cuero, Texas.

A indian summer leather leather journals stamped with the trail ledger design from the Rawhide Creek collection of Cuero, Texas.

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 anything from the Rawhide Creek collection made real, or anything here changed -- say hello through our contact page.