To Be Continued – a leather collection for readers and makers

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world logos.

A September study.

Volume I-C.

To Be Continued is a small leather collection about unfinished business of the best kind – the page kept for later, the row promised before bed. Five original stamps, pressed across a small family of goods, from luggage tags to journals.

First, we borrowed the lending card from the back pocket of a library book and gave it a luggage tag's actual job. Under RETURN TO OWNER run the ruled lines of a much-stamped ledger, and the bottom entry is already filled in – HOME.

Black-and-white RETURN TO OWNER lending-card stamp artwork from the To Be Continued leather collection for readers.

The black tag carries the design in gold, the way a title sits on a dark spine. Warm red and pale greige take it blind, straight into the leather.

A black leather luggage tag gold-stamped with the RETURN TO OWNER lending-card design from the To Be Continued collection.

A poppy-red leather luggage tag blind-stamped with the RETURN TO OWNER lending-card design from the To Be Continued collection.

A gray-sand leather luggage tag blind-stamped with the RETURN TO OWNER lending-card design from the To Be Continued collection.

Next, the keychain. A ball of yarn with its loose end climbing toward the ring, so the hardware finishes what the strand begins – and beneath it, the knitter's honest bedtime bargain, ONE MORE ROW. We pressed it in pale sea-blue and in deep green.

Black-and-white ONE MORE ROW yarn-ball stamp artwork from the To Be Continued leather collection for makers.

A pale sea-blue leather keychain blind-stamped with the ONE MORE ROW yarn-ball design from the To Be Continued collection.

A forest-green leather keychain blind-stamped with the ONE MORE ROW yarn-ball design from the To Be Continued collection.

Then the shape every reader makes and every spine mourns – a paperback parked face-down, holding its place while its owner steps away. BACK IN A MINUTE, says the toiletry bag from the edge of the sink.

Black-and-white BACK IN A MINUTE face-down-book stamp artwork from the To Be Continued leather collection for readers.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Caramel and dark-espresso leather toiletry bags blind-stamped with the BACK IN A MINUTE book design from the To Be Continued collection.

We lettered LOST AND FOUND onto a little bureau sign and let the usual suspects orbit it – a door key, a stray button and so on. The tray underneath does the finding.

Black-and-white LOST AND FOUND stamp artwork with small household objects from the To Be Continued leather collection.

An arizona tan leather catchall tray blind-stamped with the LOST AND FOUND design from the To Be Continued collection.

And finally, the one we liked the most. TO BE CONTINUED in a bookman's capitals, the ribbon already hanging beside the words – the only honest way to close a day's page. We bound it in deep wine and in deep green.

Black-and-white TO BE CONTINUED bookmark-ribbon stamp artwork from the namesake leather collection for readers.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

A sangria leather journal blind-stamped with the bookmark-ribbon design from the To Be Continued collection.

A forest-green leather journal blind-stamped with the bookmark-ribbon design from the To Be Continued 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.

If these belong on your shelf and you'd like them made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.