The Second Look – a leather collection for people who love stones

Volume I-B – an original leather collection.

A September study.

Somewhere in every drawer of specimens there is one stone that looks back. We designed this collection around the moment of choosing it – and called it The Second Look, because each design here rewards one.

First, we drew a whole field of stones in plain outline and let a single faceted gem stand solid among them, beneath the arc OF ALL THE STONES IN THE WORLD. It is the collector's moment of finding the one, and it is also a sentence you can hand to someone you love.

Black-and-white OF ALL THE STONES IN THE WORLD mixed-stone leather stamp artwork for The Second Look collection.

Pressed into the corner of a journal – one in deep wine, one in dusty lavender – it looks genuinely beautiful.

Sangria leather journal blind-stamped OF ALL THE STONES IN THE WORLD with one faceted gem among found stones.

Lilac leather journal blind-stamped OF ALL THE STONES IN THE WORLD with one faceted gem among found stones.

The same stamp rides the lower corner of the toiletry bags, a warm stone gray over deep espresso brown.

Country-gray and dark-espresso leather toiletry bags blind-stamped OF ALL THE STONES IN THE WORLD.

Next, we set a single tourmaline crystal upright on the luggage tags, striated down its whole length and stepped at the crown the way the real ones grow, above the words A MILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING.

Black-and-white upright tourmaline crystal and A MILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING leather stamp artwork.

We pressed it blind on a deep wine tag and on a deep green one. The black tag carries the design in gold foil.

Sangria leather luggage tag blind-stamped with a crystal and A MILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING.

Forest-green leather luggage tag blind-stamped with a crystal and A MILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING.

Black leather luggage tag gold-stamped with a crystal and A MILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING.

Then, we drew a gem face-up, the way a cutter judges it – an eight-sided table with facets radiating out to the girdle – and wrote LOOK CLOSER beneath. It reads as a badge across the room and as geometry in the hand.

Black-and-white face-up faceted stone and LOOK CLOSER leather stamp artwork.

One fob is pale sea-blue. On the black fob the press is gold foil, and keychains with this stamp look just awesome.

Pale sea-blue leather keychain blind-stamped with a faceted stone and LOOK CLOSER.

Black leather keychain gold-stamped with a faceted stone and LOOK CLOSER.

And finally, we scattered a pocketful of just-tipped-out finds around the words EMPTY YOUR POCKETS, for the catchall tray where the day's haul lands, rings included.

Black-and-white pocket finds and EMPTY YOUR POCKETS leather stamp artwork.

Looks great when stamped onto the golden tan leather.

Arizona leather catchall tray blind-stamped with pocket finds and EMPTY YOUR POCKETS.

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.