The Watering Hour – a leather collection for gardeners
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of leather stamping studies.
A September study – Volume I-C.
The Watering Hour is a small leather collection for people who tend plants where water is scarce. Each stamp begins with something a plant or a gardener actually does, and the words stay that close to the ground.
First, the rain lily. The bulb sits quiet under the soil for months, then answers one deep watering with a sudden bloom – so we drew the bulb waiting below the line and the flower open in the rain above it, with QUIET UNTIL RAIN written underneath.
Looks great when stamped onto the leather.
The keychains carry it too, one in deep green and one in golden tan.
Next, the pruning cut. A good cut makes room, and the plant answers with new growth – we set the shears mid-cut, a new shoot already rising beside the blade, and put MAKE ROOM beneath. On a journal cover the phrase does a second job, because a blank page is room too.
It sits in the lower corner, in deep green and in warm tan.
And finally, the rosette. Seen from above, a succulent is a diagram of thrift, every leaf set to catch water and keep it – so we ringed one with THE MOST OF EVERY DROP and let a single drop close the circle.
It looks genuinely beautiful at full size on the golden tan tray, and small on the corner of the warm gray and chestnut toiletry bags.
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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