The Permanent Collection – a leather gift line for people who keep what they love

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

A September study.

Volume I-D – the gift study. The best gift says: I noticed what you care about. So we designed The Permanent Collection – five stamps in one leather line, each made for a different kind of keeper.

First, the traveler. We laid a vintage two-blade propeller level across the tag and set CEILING UNLIMITED beneath it – the line in a weather report that means the sky is perfectly clear, as far up as you care to go.

Black and white propeller stamp artwork for the Ceiling Unlimited design in The Permanent Collection leather gift line.

We ran it on warm red and on pale sea-blue. The black tag carries the design in gold. It looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

A black leather luggage tag with a gold propeller and Ceiling Unlimited stamp from The Permanent Collection.

A warm red leather luggage tag with the propeller and Ceiling Unlimited design from The Permanent Collection.

A pale sea-blue leather luggage tag with the propeller and Ceiling Unlimited design from The Permanent Collection.

Next, the baseball person. We drew the ball with its horseshoe seams, every stitch counted, and stamped GAME USED underneath – the phrase collectors reserve for the real thing. A leather keychain earns that title the same way, one pocket and one season at a time.

Black and white baseball stamp artwork for the Game Used design in The Permanent Collection leather gift line.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather – warm glove tan and a chestnut with visible character.

A caramel leather keychain stamped with a baseball and Game Used design from The Permanent Collection.

A chestnut brown leather keychain stamped with a baseball and Game Used design from The Permanent Collection.

Then, the writer. In the lower corner of the journal we set a letterpress imprint reading FIRST EDITION, and beneath the fleuron, OF ONE. Whatever begins on the first page, there will never be a second copy.

Black and white framed title-page stamp artwork for the First Edition of One design in The Permanent Collection leather gift line.

It looks genuinely beautiful – in deep wine and in pale warm greige.

A deep wine leather journal stamped First Edition of One in the lower corner for The Permanent Collection.

A pale warm greige leather journal stamped First Edition of One in the lower corner for The Permanent Collection.

After that, the mark that names the whole line. A small heart kept under a bell jar, above the words PERMANENT COLLECTION – because what you love, you keep. We pressed it into the corner of the toiletry bags, honeyed russet over deep espresso.

Black and white cloche and heart stamp artwork that names The Permanent Collection leather gift line.

Honeyed russet and deep espresso leather toiletry bags stamped with the cloche and heart mark of The Permanent Collection.

And finally, the one that made us grin. A catchall tray in golden tan, stamped RECENT ACQUISITIONS in proper museum wall type. Keys and coins land in it every evening, and the collection grows.

Black and white gallery-label stamp artwork for the Recent Acquisitions design in The Permanent Collection leather gift line.

A golden tan leather catchall tray stamped Recent Acquisitions in gallery-label type for The Permanent 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 this study was made with your shelves in mind and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.