The Kept Place × Leatherius Woodman – a leather collection for readers

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

A September study – Volume I-C.

The Kept Place is a small leather collection about the ordinary ways a reading life keeps going – a place held in a book, and room made for the next one. Five original stamps, pressed across luggage tags, journals and the rest of our line.

First, we made the luggage tag itself a bookmark. One long silk ribbon runs the length of the tag, a tassel at one end and a swallowtail cut at the other, with KEEP MY PLACE set into the band – the bookmark's promise, borrowed for the traveler.

Black-and-white bookmark ribbon and KEEP MY PLACE artwork for The Kept Place leather collection.

The black tag carries the words in gold, the way a well-bound spine carries its title.

A black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with a bookmark ribbon and KEEP MY PLACE from The Kept Place collection.

It presses blind into warm red and into navy just as well.

A poppy-red leather luggage tag blind-stamped with a bookmark ribbon and KEEP MY PLACE from The Kept Place collection.

A blueberry leather luggage tag blind-stamped with a bookmark ribbon and KEEP MY PLACE from The Kept Place collection.

Next, the keychains. A book laid face-down on the arm of a chair says the reader will be right back – keys say the same thing. So the fob carries the little roof of a face-down book above the words LEFT OPEN.

Black-and-white face-down book and LEFT OPEN artwork for The Kept Place leather collection.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather, in caramel and in deep green.

A caramel leather keychain blind-stamped with a face-down book and LEFT OPEN from The Kept Place collection.

A forest-green leather keychain blind-stamped with a face-down book and LEFT OPEN from The Kept Place collection.

Then the toiletry bags, for the one reading habit that travels with everything else. A crescent moon over an open book sits small in the lower right corner, with A CHAPTER BEFORE SLEEP beneath – pressed blind into a navy bag stacked over chestnut, navy for the hour itself.

Black-and-white crescent moon, open book, and A CHAPTER BEFORE SLEEP artwork for The Kept Place leather collection.

Blueberry and Sicilian-brown leather toiletry bags blind-stamped with a crescent moon, open book, and A CHAPTER BEFORE SLEEP from The Kept Place collection.

Then the catchall tray, where the whole day gets set down at night. We drew folded reading glasses resting on a closed book, its ribbon still holding the page, and put UNTIL TOMORROW underneath. On the golden tan tray, everything keeps until morning – the page included.

Black-and-white reading glasses, closed book, and UNTIL TOMORROW artwork for The Kept Place leather collection.

An Arizona leather catchall tray blind-stamped with reading glasses, a closed book, and UNTIL TOMORROW from The Kept Place collection.

And finally, the one we liked the most: the journals. A shelf of spines with one gap kept open in the row, and ROOM FOR ONE MORE beneath it – the next book, or the next page, whichever arrives first. It looks genuinely beautiful on a pale warm greige close to the color of paper, and on a deep wine.

Black-and-white bookshelf gap and ROOM FOR ONE MORE artwork for The Kept Place leather collection.

A gray-sand leather journal blind-stamped with a bookshelf gap and ROOM FOR ONE MORE from The Kept Place collection.

A sangria leather journal blind-stamped with a bookshelf gap and ROOM FOR ONE MORE from The Kept Place 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.

If you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.

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An alternate black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with a bookmark ribbon and KEEP MY PLACE from The Kept Place collection.

An alternate poppy-red leather luggage tag blind-stamped with a bookmark ribbon and KEEP MY PLACE from The Kept Place collection.

An alternate blueberry leather luggage tag blind-stamped with a bookmark ribbon and KEEP MY PLACE from The Kept Place collection.