The Analog Hours – a Waterfall Volume II leather stamping study for life off the screen

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

Waterfall Volume II.

A September study.

This is The Analog Hours – original stamp designs for the hours spent off the screen, the game nights and the pages written by hand. We pressed them into leather, from luggage tags to a catchall tray.

First, we let the auto-reply fly for real. A paper airplane climbs out of the last letter of OUT OF OFFICE, its dashed flight path looping behind it – the message every good weekend sends on its way out the door. It runs lengthwise along the tag.

Black-and-white OUT OF OFFICE paper-airplane stamp artwork for The Analog Hours leather collection.

The black tag carries the design in gold.

A black leather luggage tag gold-stamped with the OUT OF OFFICE paper-airplane design.

In pale sea-blue and in warm red, the press is blind and the fold lines catch the light.

A pale sea-blue leather luggage tag blind-stamped with the OUT OF OFFICE paper-airplane design.

A warm red leather luggage tag blind-stamped with the OUT OF OFFICE paper-airplane design.

Next, the keychains. We stamped a small dark field with a puzzle-piece-shaped gap in it and set THE MISSING PIECE beneath – whoever gets handed this one completes the picture.

Black-and-white THE MISSING PIECE puzzle stamp artwork for The Analog Hours leather collection.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather – dusty lavender and warm tan.

A dusty lavender leather keychain stamped with THE MISSING PIECE puzzle design.

A warm tan leather keychain stamped with THE MISSING PIECE puzzle design.

Then, the toiletry bags – the kit that closes the day. We drew a wind-up toy key over the words WIND DOWN, because winding up a toy is how an evening winds down. It presses into the corner of the black bag over deep espresso brown, a quiet shadow relief.

Black-and-white WIND DOWN wind-up key stamp artwork for The Analog Hours leather collection.

Black and dark espresso leather dopp kits blind-stamped with the WIND DOWN design.

Then, a house rule for the table. PHONES SLEEP HERE arcs over a phone with a moon already on its screen – set it in the tray at eight and the whole evening goes analog. Pressed at full size into the golden tan tray.

Black-and-white PHONES SLEEP HERE moon-and-phone stamp artwork for The Analog Hours leather collection.

An arizona leather catchall tray blind-stamped with the PHONES SLEEP HERE design.

And finally, the one we liked the most. An hourglass with most of its sand still upstairs, and TAKE YOUR TIME beneath – the only clock a journal answers to.

Black-and-white TAKE YOUR TIME hourglass stamp artwork for The Analog Hours leather collection.

It looks genuinely beautiful. One journal comes in pale warm greige, the sand's own color, and one in deep wine for the lamp it gets written by.

A gray-sand leather journal blind-stamped with the TAKE YOUR TIME hourglass design.

A sangria leather journal blind-stamped with the TAKE YOUR TIME hourglass design.

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.