The Long Afternoon – leather studies of Elmira Heights, New York
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of original leather stamping studies.
A September study – Volume I-D.
We call this collection The Long Afternoon – original stamping designs rooted in Elmira Heights, New York, and the slow places around it, pressed onto everything from leather luggage tags to journals.
First, the sailplanes of Harris Hill. We set one riding the ridge lift and pressed the whole philosophy of the sport underneath it – NO ENGINE NO HURRY.
The black tag is the one leather that carries the gold.
On the navy tag the same design runs lengthwise, blind-debossed. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.
And it waits in the corner of the navy toiletry bag – the kit for the trip you finally take slowly.
Next, Eldridge Park. We drew the dragon boat's scalloped head from the park's own water, with the pavilion and its cupola on the far shore behind it.
On the golden tan tray it becomes the dish where the day's pockets get emptied.
And on a warm red tag, the dragon gets to travel. It looks genuinely beautiful.
And finally, the one we liked the most. RAISED IN THE HEIGHTS – a lone tree on a climbing hill, for everyone who grew up here and for everyone still at it.
Keychains with the RAISED IN THE HEIGHTS stamp look just awesome.
On a journal the stamp sits low in the corner, in forest green or gray sand – the retirement gift, the moving-away gift.
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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