The Second Look – a leather stamping collection for crystal and bead people

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies. Volume I-C.

A September study.

The Second Look – a small leather collection for people who choose stones one at a time. Every design in it rewards the habit that finds a good crystal: looking twice.

First, we drew a field of rough stones and let a single crystal go solid black. ONE IN A HUNDRED – the piece worth carrying home, and the one bag on the carousel that is yours.

The tags come in dusty lavender and pale sea-blue, with a true black third. The black tag carries the design in gold.

Black-and-white ONE IN A HUNDRED rough-stone field leather stamp artwork.

Lilac leather luggage tag blind-stamped ONE IN A HUNDRED.

Pale turquoise leather luggage tag blind-stamped ONE IN A HUNDRED.

Black leather luggage tag stamped ONE IN A HUNDRED in gold.

Next, we wrapped a crystal point in four turns of wire, the way a good pendant keeps its stone without a drop of glue, and set HOLD FAST underneath.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather. One fob comes in deep green; on the black fob the wire presses in gold.

Black-and-white HOLD FAST wire-wrapped crystal leather stamp artwork.

Forest green leather keychain blind-stamped HOLD FAST.

Black leather keychain stamped HOLD FAST in gold.

Then we cut a gem open on paper for the journals. Inside the outline a small crystal garden climbs from the pavilion floor – real inclusions record where a stone grew, and gemologists read them as evidence of growth. A journal keeps the same kind of record, one page at a time.

It looks genuinely beautiful. One journal comes in navy, the other in deep wine.

Black-and-white EVIDENCE OF GROWTH included-gem leather stamp artwork.

Blueberry leather journal blind-stamped EVIDENCE OF GROWTH.

Sangria leather journal blind-stamped EVIDENCE OF GROWTH.

Then the catchall tray, which is where a strand actually lands at the end of a day. We stamped one into the golden tan base – knotted bead by bead, clasp left open, at rest. No words on this one; the strand speaks for itself.

Black-and-white relaxed bead-strand leather stamp artwork.

Arizona leather catchall tray blind-stamped with a relaxed bead strand.

And finally, we put a jeweler's loupe on the toiletry stack, a faceted stone filling the lens and LOOK AGAIN beneath – the whole discipline of choosing, in two words. The bags pair warm stone gray over mottled chestnut, a geode's own logic: plain outside, rich within.

Black-and-white LOOK AGAIN jeweler's-loupe leather stamp artwork.

Country gray and Sicilian brown leather dopp kits blind-stamped LOOK AGAIN.

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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