REEDY & MAIN – a Greenville leather stamping study, Volume II

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of leather stamping studies.

An August study. Volume II.

Greenville keeps its river and its main street a block apart – the Reedy pouring over its falls under the Liberty Bridge, Main Street running warm and walkable just uphill. We pressed that geography into leather and called the collection REEDY & MAIN.

First, we hung the Liberty Bridge over its falls and set MEET ME AT THE FALLS across the top – a luggage tag exists to name the place you fly back to. The trio runs deep green and warm tan, with a black third.

The black tag takes the words in gold.

The black-and-white MEET ME AT THE FALLS stamp plate for the REEDY & MAIN Greenville leather collection.

Three leather luggage tags stamped with the Liberty Bridge and falls for the REEDY & MAIN collection of Greenville.

Next, one of the nine bronze mice that hide along Main Street sits up under NINE ON MAIN. Families hunt all nine on foot; the keychain is the mouse you get to keep, and the easiest gift in the case. Warm mid-gray for the sidewalk, warm tan for the shelf.

The black-and-white NINE ON MAIN mouse stamp plate for the REEDY & MAIN Greenville leather collection.

Two leather keychains stamped with a Main Street mouse for the REEDY & MAIN collection of Greenville.

Then we dressed a millstone into the golden tan tray, furrowed like the working stone, with THE DAY'S GRIST and GREENVILLE ringing the rim. The Reedy's first job in town was turning a gristmill; this stone now catches whatever the day grinds out of your pockets.

It looks absolutely gorgeous pressed into the golden tan.

The black-and-white THE DAY'S GRIST millstone stamp plate for the REEDY & MAIN Greenville leather collection.

A golden tan leather catchall tray stamped with a millstone for the REEDY & MAIN collection of Greenville.

Greenville's most famous kitchen venture began with sandwiches at a downtown hotel and grew into a mayonnaise empire bottled beside the Reedy, so the journals say IT STARTED WITH A SANDWICH. A journal is where the next venture gets its first line. The pair comes in deep wine and pale greige.

The black-and-white IT STARTED WITH A SANDWICH stamp plate for the REEDY & MAIN Greenville leather collection.

Two leather journals stamped IT STARTED WITH A SANDWICH for the REEDY & MAIN collection of Greenville.

And finally, a waterwheel turns under POWERED BY THE REEDY on the toiletry bags – the river ran the mills long before it ran anyone's morning. Warm tan over deep brown, bread over coffee.

The black-and-white POWERED BY THE REEDY waterwheel stamp plate for the REEDY & MAIN Greenville leather collection.

Two leather toiletry bags stamped with a waterwheel for the REEDY & MAIN collection of Greenville.

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 REEDY & MAIN made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.

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A forest-green leather luggage tag stamped with MEET ME AT THE FALLS from the REEDY & MAIN Greenville collection.

A caramel leather luggage tag stamped with MEET ME AT THE FALLS from the REEDY & MAIN Greenville collection.

A black leather luggage tag gold-stamped with MEET ME AT THE FALLS from the REEDY & MAIN Greenville collection.

A warm gray leather keychain stamped NINE ON MAIN for the REEDY & MAIN Greenville collection.

A caramel leather keychain stamped NINE ON MAIN for the REEDY & MAIN Greenville collection.

A deep wine leather journal stamped IT STARTED WITH A SANDWICH for the REEDY & MAIN Greenville collection.

A pale greige leather journal stamped IT STARTED WITH A SANDWICH for the REEDY & MAIN Greenville collection.