Set for Company – a leather stamping study for Oneida, New York (Volume I-D)
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of leather stamping studies.
A September study – Volume I-D.
We named the collection Set for Company – for Oneida, New York, the city whose silverware set America's table – and pressed it into leather, from luggage tags to journals.
First, we drew the Mansion House the long way – the 1862 tower and the wings that kept joining on for decades, mansard meeting gable – and set ONEIDA NEW YORK beneath. A house that grew room by room knows something about arrivals, which felt right for a luggage tag.
We pressed it into three leathers the grounds already wear.
Next, the spoon. Oneida's name went around the world on silverware, and a souvenir spoon always carried its city engraved in the bowl – so ours does too.
On the deep wine leather it lies the way silver lies on velvet.
We put the same spoon on the corner of the toiletry bags, warm tan over chestnut. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.
Then the catchall tray. A tray is really a drawer that lives out in the open, so we gave it the specimen drawer – spoon after spoon resting in its slot, each handle a little different. One slot we left empty, for whatever your pockets bring home.
And finally, the Rustic Summer House in the garden, standing since 1864 because its builder let the tree stay and bent the shelter around it. Under the roofline we set BUILT AROUND THE TREE – a fair rule for a journal too. It looks genuinely beautiful, on deep green and on honeyed russet.
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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