The Second Look, Volume I-B – a leather stamping collection about noticing and keeping

A September study. Volume I-B.

This one is about the collector's habit: something catches the eye, and the good ones go home after a second look. We pressed that ritual into leather – five marks, from luggage tags to the tray everything lands on. We call the collection The Second Look.

First, the dot. When a work finds its owner, a gallery sets a small solid dot beside the label – spoken for. We gave luggage the same courtesy: one dot, then the words, running the long way down the tag.

The SPOKEN FOR sold-dot design shown as black-and-white stamp artwork for The Second Look leather collection.

On caramel and pale sea-blue it presses as a blind deboss. The black tag carries the dot and the words in gold.

A black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with the SPOKEN FOR sold-dot design from The Second Look collection.

A pale sea-blue leather luggage tag blind-stamped with the SPOKEN FOR sold-dot design from The Second Look collection.

A warm-tan leather luggage tag blind-stamped with the SPOKEN FOR sold-dot design from The Second Look collection.

Next, the hook. A bare picture hook over an empty stretch of wall means one thing – the piece left with somebody. So the keychain, the thing that takes you home, wears the hook, the ghost of the frame, and TAKEN HOME beneath.

The TAKEN HOME picture-hook design shown as black-and-white stamp artwork for The Second Look leather collection.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather – here on chestnut and on pale greige.

A chestnut leather keychain blind-stamped with the TAKEN HOME picture-hook design from The Second Look collection.

A pale-greige leather keychain blind-stamped with the TAKEN HOME picture-hook design from The Second Look collection.

Then the traveling confession. An open eye above STILL LOOKING, pressed small into the corner of the toiletry bag, because a collector on the road is never quite off duty. The stack pairs warm mid-gray over chestnut.

The STILL LOOKING open-eye design shown as black-and-white stamp artwork for The Second Look leather collection.

Warm-gray and chestnut leather toiletry bags blind-stamped with the STILL LOOKING eye design from The Second Look collection.

For the catchall tray we lettered a wall label: SMALL WORKS, and under the rule, ON LOAN FROM DAILY LIFE. Whatever your pockets carry gets its own little exhibition by the door. It looks genuinely beautiful on the golden tan.

The SMALL WORKS exhibition-label design shown as black-and-white stamp artwork for The Second Look leather collection.

A golden-tan leather catchall tray blind-stamped with the SMALL WORKS exhibition-label design from The Second Look collection.

And finally, the title piece. An empty frame hangs from its nail above THE SECOND LOOK – the journal is where the thing that caught your eye gets written down, so you can go back for it.

The empty-frame title design shown as black-and-white stamp artwork for The Second Look leather collection.

On deep green the frame presses crisp; on black it reads as a quiet shadow relief.

A deep-green leather journal blind-stamped with the empty-frame title design from The Second Look collection.

A black leather journal blind-stamped with the empty-frame title design from The Second Look 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.

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