The Making Kind – a leather gift collection for people who make things (Volume I-D)

From the Practice Log – Shops Waterfall, Volume I-D.

A September study.

We call this collection The Making Kind – leather gifts for people who make things, and for the givers who love them enough to notice. Each design below is pressed from its own die onto the leather it belongs to, from luggage tag to journal.

First, the luggage tag, for the ones who travel in order to look. We set the words GONE LOOKING over a single long horizon line and left a pencil at its right end, still drawing – wherever this tag is headed, its owner means to see the place properly, and probably to draw it. The black tag carries the words in gold foil; the golden tan and pale greige tags take a blind deboss.

Black-and-white die artwork of a drawn horizon, pencil, and GONE LOOKING for The Making Kind leather gift collection.

A black leather luggage tag gold-stamped with GONE LOOKING and a pencil-drawn horizon from The Making Kind.

An Arizona tan leather luggage tag blind-stamped with GONE LOOKING and a pencil-drawn horizon from The Making Kind.

A Gray Sand leather luggage tag blind-stamped with GONE LOOKING and a pencil-drawn horizon from The Making Kind.

Next, the keychain. A pencil stub stands over KEEP MAKING – a stub is what a pencil becomes when somebody actually uses it, so the shortest pencil in the studio turns into a medal. One fob is golden tan, the color of the pencil itself; the black fob carries the stub in gold. It looks genuinely beautiful.

Black-and-white die artwork of a worn pencil stub above KEEP MAKING for The Making Kind leather gift collection.

An Arizona tan leather keychain blind-stamped with a pencil stub and KEEP MAKING from The Making Kind.

A black leather keychain gold-stamped with a pencil stub and KEEP MAKING from The Making Kind.

Then, the toiletry bag. We crossed a toothbrush and a paintbrush like heraldry above DAILY PRACTICE, because the sink and the easel run on the same discipline – showing up every morning. The stamp sits in the lower corner of a warm gray bag and a deep espresso one, blind debossed. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Black-and-white die artwork of a crossed toothbrush and paintbrush above DAILY PRACTICE for The Making Kind leather gift collection.

A Country Gray leather toiletry bag blind-stamped with crossed brushes and DAILY PRACTICE from The Making Kind.

A Dark Espresso leather toiletry bag blind-stamped with crossed brushes and DAILY PRACTICE from The Making Kind.

After that, the catchall tray, in golden tan. On the base we stamped an empty picture frame with a small gallery plaque reading STILL LIFE – from now on, whatever the pockets surrender each evening hangs as the day's composition.

Black-and-white die artwork of an empty gallery frame and STILL LIFE plaque for The Making Kind leather gift collection.

An Arizona tan leather catchall tray blind-stamped with an empty gallery frame and STILL LIFE from The Making Kind.

And finally, the journal, and the one we liked the most. A loose scatter of dots with a single one circled, above BEGIN ANYWHERE – the blank page stops being a threshold once any dot will do for a start. It comes in deep green and in pale greige. Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

Black-and-white die artwork of a loose dot field with one circled dot above BEGIN ANYWHERE for The Making Kind leather gift collection.

A Forest Green leather journal blind-stamped with a chosen dot and BEGIN ANYWHERE from The Making Kind.

A Gray Sand leather journal blind-stamped with a chosen dot and BEGIN ANYWHERE from The Making Kind.

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