Still Good – a leather collection about old things still in service

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

A September study. Volume I-C.

Still Good is a small leather collection about objects that outlast their first owners and keep working – the verdict a good shelf passes on everything it holds. Five stamps, pressed into everything from luggage tags to journals.

First, the design that names the collection. We drew the dealer's string tag an old object wears on its way to a new home, and wrote STILL GOOD across it – so the tag on your luggage carries the verdict, string and all.

The dealer string tag stamp plate for the Still Good collection, prepared for leather luggage tags.

The black tag carries the words in gold.

A black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with the Still Good dealer tag design.

Honeyed russet and warm gray take the same press blind.

A honeyed russet leather luggage tag blind-stamped with the Still Good dealer tag design.

A warm gray leather luggage tag blind-stamped with the Still Good dealer tag design.

Next, the keychains. An old skeleton key stands mid-turn between the words STILL TURNS – and a key ring is the one place a retired key gets to hang beside the ones on duty.

The skeleton key and Still Turns stamp plate for leather keychains in the Still Good collection.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather, in deep brown and in golden tan.

A deep brown leather keychain blind-stamped with the Still Turns skeleton key design.

A golden tan leather keychain blind-stamped with the Still Turns skeleton key design.

Then the toiletry bags. We crossed a shaving brush with a safety razor into a small crest and set WELL KEPT beneath – a thing said of good tools, and of the people who keep them. It sits low in the corner, on warm gray over deep espresso brown.

The crossed shaving brush and razor stamp plate for Still Good leather toiletry bags.

Warm gray and deep brown leather toiletry bags stamped with the Well Kept shaving-tools design.

After that, the catchall tray, the household's honest lost and found. The words sit at the center while the usual suspects circle them – key and coin, watch and thimble, ring and button, and one faceted perfume bottle we met on a shop shelf and kept thinking about.

The seven-object Lost and Found stamp plate for a Still Good leather catchall tray.

It looks genuinely beautiful, pressed deep into the golden tan.

A golden tan leather catchall tray blind-stamped with the Lost and Found ring of familiar objects.

And finally, the journals. In the old trade an object is worth what its record proves, so the cover carries one word, PROVENANCE, beneath a blank ruled line – the first entry is yours to make.

The Provenance word-and-rule stamp plate for Still Good leather journals.

Published in deep wine and in dusty rose.

A deep wine leather journal blind-stamped with Provenance and a blank ruled line.

A dusty rose leather journal blind-stamped with Provenance and a blank ruled line.

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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