Red Rock Reserve, Volume III – a St. George leather stamping collection
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies.
An August study – Volume III.
St. George was cut out of sandstone and sagebrush, and it holds what it cuts. Red Rock Reserve is a collection of five stamps pressed into leather for the people who keep good things – from the luggage tags down to the catchall tray on the dresser.
First, the luggage tags. We drew an old beam balance sitting dead level, a stack of rounds on one pan and a small Utah butte on the other – GOOD WEIGHT, the words a collector uses for a coin that is all there. It runs lengthwise in golden tan and honeyed russet, with a black tag between them.
The black tag carries the balance in gold foil.
Next, the keychains. A keyhole already has the shape of a slot canyon, so we let it become one – cross-bedded walls inside the opening, a slit of sky where the key would turn, named for the real Keyhole Canyon in Zion. One fob in honeyed russet; the black fob takes the canyon in gold.
Looks great when stamped onto the leather.
Then the catchall tray, the place where pockets get emptied. We set a low sun on the mesas, sage at its shoulders, and arched END OF DAY over it – the hour the market settles and everything heavy comes home to one tray.
Then the journals. The sandstone above the Virgin River is a record of dunes that stopped moving long before anyone could read them, so a journal felt like the honest place for it – a bookplate of that cross-bedding with WRITTEN IN STONE set across the band. One journal in pale greige, the color of the upper cliffs, and one in black, where the blind stamp reads as pure shadow.
And finally, the one we liked the most. MINT CONDITION under a grader's gleam, pressed into the black and dark espresso dopp kit – the bag whose whole job is keeping its owner that way.
It looks genuinely beautiful.
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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