Tend & Keep – a leather gift collection of quiet ways to look after someone · Volume I-D

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

A September study – Volume I-D.

Tend & Keep is a small collection about the quiet ways people look after each other – the garden watered before breakfast, the promise to be back by supper. Three designs, each made to be given, and made to stay useful long after the giving.

First, the luggage tags. We set a small bird flying home to its birdhouse and wrote BACK BY SUPPER underneath – the promise every traveler makes, pressed where the traveling happens.

Black-and-white die artwork of a bird flying home to a birdhouse above BACK BY SUPPER for the Tend & Keep leather gift collection.

The black tag carries the birdhouse in gold. Warm red and deep navy press blind. It looks genuinely beautiful.

A black leather luggage tag gold-stamped with the Back by Supper birdhouse design from the Tend & Keep collection.

A poppy-red leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the Back by Supper birdhouse design from the Tend & Keep collection.

A blueberry leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the Back by Supper birdhouse design from the Tend & Keep collection.

The same promise sits in the corner of the toiletry kit – warm tan over deep espresso – the bag that gets packed the night before.

Caramel and dark-espresso leather dopp kits blind-debossed with the Back by Supper birdhouse design from the Tend & Keep collection.

Next, the keychains. The cardinal stays when every other bird has flown south, so we perched one on a bare branch and wrote STAYS ALL WINTER beneath it – for the friend who does.

Black-and-white die artwork of a cardinal on a bare branch above STAYS ALL WINTER for the Tend & Keep leather gift collection.

The warm red fob matches its bird; on deep green the bare branch reads like pine. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

A poppy-red leather keychain blind-debossed with the Stays All Winter cardinal design from the Tend & Keep collection.

A forest-green leather keychain blind-debossed with the Stays All Winter cardinal design from the Tend & Keep collection.

And finally, A LITTLE EVERY DAY. We tipped a watering can over a seedling – how gardens grow, and how journals fill. Pressed into the corner of the cover, it asks for one page at a time – in deep green and in pale greige.

Black-and-white die artwork of a watering can, five drops and a seedling above A LITTLE EVERY DAY for the Tend & Keep leather gift collection.

A forest-green leather wrap journal blind-debossed with the A Little Every Day watering design from the Tend & Keep collection.

A gray-sand leather wrap journal blind-debossed with the A Little Every Day watering design from the Tend & Keep collection.

On the golden tan tray the same thought waits at the end of the day, right where the keys land.

An Arizona-tan leather catchall tray blind-debossed with the A Little Every Day watering design from the Tend & Keep 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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