Roll Call – a leather stamping study about being counted · Volume I-C

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

A September study – Volume I-C.

Roll Call is a small collection about being counted – the raised hand, the stroke that joins the tally. Four original stamps, pressed into leather from the journals to the luggage tags.

First, the oldest answer in the book. We raised a hand over the word PRESENT – the way you answer the roll, and the thing a journal becomes when it changes hands.

Black-and-white PRESENT raised-hand stamp artwork for the Roll Call leather collection.

It looks genuinely beautiful in the deep wine leather, and quieter still in pale greige.

A deep wine leather journal stamped with the raised-hand PRESENT design from the Roll Call collection.

A pale greige leather journal stamped with the raised-hand PRESENT design from the Roll Call collection.

Next, we cut a tally for the keychains. Four strokes were already standing; the fifth – the one that closes the gate – is you. COUNT ME IN underneath.

Black-and-white COUNT ME IN tally stamp artwork for the Roll Call leather collection.

On warm tan the press goes blind; on black the tally goes gold.

A warm tan leather keychain blind stamped with the COUNT ME IN tally from the Roll Call collection.

A black leather keychain gold stamped with the COUNT ME IN tally from the Roll Call collection.

Then we drew the huddle from straight above – hands stacked in the middle, arms coming in like spokes – and set ALL IN under the ring. It presses big in the center of the golden tan tray, where everything lands anyway, and small in the corner of the navy toiletry bags over deep brown.

Black-and-white ALL IN overhead huddle stamp artwork for the Roll Call leather collection.

Looks great when stamped at both sizes.

A golden tan leather catchall tray stamped with the ALL IN huddle from the Roll Call collection.

Navy and deep brown leather toiletry bags stamped with the ALL IN huddle from the Roll Call collection.

And finally, the one we liked the most. A luggage tag keeps its owner's card on the back, so the front comes clean about it: ANSWERS TO THE NAME ON THE BACK, under a little turn-me-over arrow. We ran it lengthwise in navy and in warm red.

Black-and-white ANSWERS TO THE NAME ON THE BACK stamp artwork for the Roll Call leather collection.

The black tag takes it in gold – absolutely gorgeous.

A navy leather luggage tag blind stamped with ANSWERS TO THE NAME ON THE BACK from the Roll Call collection.

A warm red leather luggage tag blind stamped with ANSWERS TO THE NAME ON THE BACK from the Roll Call collection.

A black leather luggage tag gold stamped with ANSWERS TO THE NAME ON THE BACK from the Roll Call collection.

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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