Small Signs – a leather collection for the gift that needs no occasion

Volume I-C – an original collection from the Practice Log.

A September study.

Small Signs is a collection for the gift that needs no occasion – five short phrases, each married to one small picture, pressed into leather that stays useful long after the wrapping paper is gone.

First, we tied a short string into a bow and set THOUGHT OF YOU beneath it. A bow wraps a present, and a string tied in a loop is the oldest reminder there is – here it does both jobs at once.

Black-and-white bow and THOUGHT OF YOU die artwork for the Small Signs leather collection.

The black tag carries the bow in gold; the gray sand and caramel tags take a blind deboss.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

A black leather luggage tag gold-stamped with a bow and THOUGHT OF YOU from the Small Signs collection.

A gray-sand leather luggage tag blind-stamped with a bow and THOUGHT OF YOU from the Small Signs collection.

A caramel leather luggage tag blind-stamped with a bow and THOUGHT OF YOU from the Small Signs collection.

Next, a page from a wall calendar with every square left empty, and JUST BECAUSE underneath. Some gifts skip the date.

Black-and-white empty calendar and JUST BECAUSE die artwork for the Small Signs leather collection.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather – here on sicilian brown and on pale sea-blue.

A Sicilian-brown leather keychain blind-stamped with an empty calendar and JUST BECAUSE from the Small Signs collection.

A pale sea-blue leather keychain blind-stamped with an empty calendar and JUST BECAUSE from the Small Signs collection.

Then the toiletry bags – a bar of soap making a run for it, bubbles still rising in its wake, over CLEAN GETAWAY. The stack is caramel over dark espresso.

Black-and-white fleeing soap and CLEAN GETAWAY die artwork for the Small Signs leather collection.

Caramel and dark-espresso leather toiletry bags blind-stamped with fleeing soap and CLEAN GETAWAY from the Small Signs collection.

For the journals we drew a pencil worn down to its stub above KEEP GOING. The encouragement is earned – a pencil only gets that short by writing.

Black-and-white pencil stub and KEEP GOING die artwork for the Small Signs leather collection.

A dark-espresso leather journal blind-stamped with a pencil stub and KEEP GOING from the Small Signs collection.

A gray-sand leather journal blind-stamped with a pencil stub and KEEP GOING from the Small Signs collection.

And finally, the catchall tray. A long key at rest under a thin crescent moon, with HOME FOR THE NIGHT beneath – the tray by the door is where the day's pockets get emptied, and where everything waits for morning.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

Black-and-white key, crescent moon and HOME FOR THE NIGHT die artwork for the Small Signs leather collection.

An Arizona-tan leather catchall tray blind-stamped with a key, crescent moon and HOME FOR THE NIGHT from the Small Signs 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.

If you'd like any of these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.