The Thousandth Use × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study of well-used everyday objects

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of leather stamping studies.

A September study – Volume I-C.

The Thousandth Use is a small collection about the objects a hand returns to every day, and about how leather keeps score of that returning. Four designs, each one an observation you could keep.

First, the fact every key ring proves: one key does most of the work. We hung four keys from one ring and drew the busiest of them worn bright, with THE ONE THAT WORKS beneath.

The One That Works key-ring stamp die plate

Looks great when stamped onto the leather – warm caramel first, deep forest green after it.

The One That Works stamped into a caramel leather keychain

The One That Works stamped into a forest green leather keychain

Next, where everything lands at the end of the day. We scattered an evening's pocketful across the die and set SAME TIME TOMORROW underneath – the catchall tray's whole job, said out loud.

Same Time Tomorrow pocket-objects stamp die plate

Same Time Tomorrow stamped into an arizona leather catchall tray

The same stamp keeps the same appointment every morning on the dopp kit, here in honeyed russet over chestnut sicilian brown.

Same Time Tomorrow stamped into indian summer and sicilian brown leather dopp kits

Then, the journals. A beautiful notebook runs exactly one risk – staying too nice to write in. We pressed a pencil sharpened down to its last inch into the corner, with THIS ONE GETS USED, so the cover settles the question before page one.

This One Gets Used pencil-stub stamp die plate

Deep wine sangria and pale gray sand. Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

This One Gets Used stamped into a sangria leather journal

This One Gets Used stamped into a gray sand leather journal

And finally, the one we liked the most. An old trunk papered over with travel labels, and one label left blank – ROOM FOR ONE MORE.

Room For One More steamer-trunk stamp die plate

The black tag carries the design in gold.

Room For One More in gold foil on a black leather luggage tag

Sicilian brown and forest green take it as a blind deboss.

Room For One More stamped into a sicilian brown leather luggage tag

Room For One More stamped into a forest green leather luggage tag

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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