Stay a While – a leather stamping collection about unhurried company

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world logos.

A September study.

Volume I-B.

Stay a While is a small leather collection about unhurried company – the second cup and the standing game, the note that gets written before the news goes cold. Four original designs, each stamped where the habit lives.

First, we sent an open book flying – its pages spread like wings above COME BACK WITH STORIES. A luggage tag is a send-off that expects a return, and this one asks the trip to pay for itself in the telling. We pressed it on caramel and on deep green, and gave the third tag a deep wine sangria.

Black-and-white die artwork of an open book spreading like wings above COME BACK WITH STORIES for the Stay a While leather collection.

A caramel leather luggage tag blind-debossed with an open book and COME BACK WITH STORIES from the Stay a While collection.

A deep-wine sangria leather luggage tag blind-debossed with an open book and COME BACK WITH STORIES from the Stay a While collection.

A forest-green leather luggage tag blind-debossed with an open book and COME BACK WITH STORIES from the Stay a While collection.

The same die lands small in the corner of the toiletry bags – caramel over chestnut sicilian.

Caramel and Sicilian brown leather toiletry bags blind-debossed with an open book and COME BACK WITH STORIES from the Stay a While collection.

Next, the keychains. A knight stands over YOUR MOVE – handed across the table with the keys, it says exactly what a chess friend needs to hear. The black fob carries the design in gold. The second runs poppy red, blind debossed.

Black-and-white die artwork of a chess knight above YOUR MOVE for the Stay a While leather collection.

A black leather keychain gold-stamped with a chess knight and YOUR MOVE from the Stay a While collection.

A poppy-red leather keychain blind-debossed with a chess knight and YOUR MOVE from the Stay a While collection.

Then the journals. A cup sends its steam up over WRITE IT WHILE IT'S WARM, and the tallest curl levels off into a ruled, waiting line. One journal in honeyed russet, one in deep green.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Black-and-white die artwork of a steaming cup above WRITE IT WHILE IT'S WARM for the Stay a While leather collection.

A honey-russet Indian Summer leather journal blind-debossed with a steaming cup and WRITE IT WHILE IT'S WARM from the Stay a While collection.

A forest-green leather journal blind-debossed with a steaming cup and WRITE IT WHILE IT'S WARM from the Stay a While collection.

And finally, the one we liked the most. A round table seen straight from above, set with two cups and a half-played game; a folded letter waits under the rim. STAY A WHILE arcs along the top, and the golden tan tray carries the whole scene at generous size – everything a pocket holds lands on an open invitation.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

Black-and-white die artwork of a table set with two cups, a chess game and a letter beneath STAY A WHILE for the Stay a While leather collection.

An Arizona tan leather catchall tray blind-debossed with a table scene and STAY A WHILE from the Stay a While 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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