The Reedy Line × Leatherius Woodman – a Greenville, South Carolina leather collection

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

An August study.

Greenville, South Carolina keeps a waterfall in the middle of its downtown and a century of cotton mills in its memory. We pressed that city into leather and named the collection The Reedy Line – five original stamps, one for each piece in the line.

First, we sent the luggage tags up the Swamp Rabbit Trail, which leaves downtown along the river and ends in a town genuinely named Travelers Rest – the best two words a suitcase ever carried. The rabbit runs the whole way there.

Black-and-white Travelers Rest rabbit and trail stamp artwork for The Reedy Line leather collection of Greenville, South Carolina.

The trio wears deep green and warm tan, with one tag in warm red.

Three leather luggage tags stamped with the Travelers Rest rabbit design from The Reedy Line collection of Greenville, South Carolina.

Next, the keychains. Nine small bronze mice hide along Main Street, and finding them is a downtown sport – so we perched a tenth on the last letter of MAIN ST.

Black-and-white Main Street mouse stamp artwork for The Reedy Line leather collection of Greenville, South Carolina.

On the true black fob the press carries no color at all, and the mouse stays hidden until the light finds it – exactly as a Main Street mouse should. The golden tan fob plays the bronze.

Two leather keychains stamped with the Mice on Main design from The Reedy Line collection of Greenville, South Carolina.

Then we packed the toiletry bags for Paris – Paris Mountain, the lone rounded peak that rises just past the city. The stamp sits small in the lower corner of the bag, the way the mountain sits on the horizon.

Black-and-white Paris Mountain stamp artwork for The Reedy Line leather collection of Greenville, South Carolina.

Pressed blind into navy over deep brown.

Two leather toiletry bags stamped with the Paris Mountain design from The Reedy Line collection of Greenville, South Carolina.

For the journals, we went back to the looms. Greenville ran on thread for a hundred years, and a journal is where a person keeps the thread of their own days – so a weaver's shuttle pays out one long ruled line across the corner of the cover, ready for handwriting.

Black-and-white weaver shuttle stamp artwork for The Reedy Line leather collection of Greenville, South Carolina.

One journal wears pale warm greige, the weaver's own word for undyed cloth; the other a deep wine.

Two leather journals stamped with the Keep the Thread design from The Reedy Line collection of Greenville, South Carolina.

And finally, the one we liked the most. The Liberty Bridge hangs from one side only, so nothing interrupts the view of the falls beneath it – and sooner or later everything downtown lands there, which is also the whole job of a catchall tray.

Black-and-white Liberty Bridge and Reedy River falls stamp artwork for The Reedy Line leather collection of Greenville, South Carolina.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the golden tan.

A golden tan leather catchall tray stamped with Liberty Bridge and the falls from The Reedy Line collection of Greenville, South Carolina.

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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