Sugar and Spring Water – a Lititz, Pennsylvania leather collection, Volume II
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of original leather design studies of real places.
A September study – Volume II.
Sugar and Spring Water – a small leather collection rooted in Lititz, Pennsylvania, running from luggage tags to toiletry bags. This volume follows the water.
First, the music. The park's own record has evening concerts by the spring as early as 1778, and on market Thursdays there is live music on that same bank still – so we ruled the channel's ripples into a musical staff and set the notes drifting downstream, a clef standing where the water enters.
It looks genuinely beautiful.
The tune runs lengthwise along the luggage tags – navy for the evening crowd, pale sea-blue for the water itself.
The black tag carries it in gold foil.
Next, we weighed out the standing order – a striped paper bag folded shut, two candies that never made it home – and stamped A QUARTER POUND OF HAPPY around it.
On the keychains it comes in vivid magenta and in pale sea-blue, straight off the candy wall. They look just awesome.
And centered on the golden tan catchall tray, the bag waits where the pocket candy lands at the end of the day.
Then, market day. Thursdays in season the park fills with produce and handcrafted goods – so we raised a striped stall on the journal covers, MARKET DAY over the awning, THURSDAYS AT THE SPRINGS beneath. A journal is where the market list starts.
Looks great when stamped onto the leather – deep green for the park canopy, warm tan for the basket.
And finally, the one we liked the most. Seen from above, the springhead's stone ellipse and its straight channel make a keyhole – so we drew the town's key in sandstone coping and wrote KEPT BY ITS TOWN beneath it, because the park has run on its neighbors' care for generations.
It presses quietly into the corner of the toiletry bags – one in warm stone gray, one in deep espresso. Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.
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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