Try It Again – a leather collection for hands-on curiosity

From the Practice Log – Volume I-B of an ongoing series of leather stamping studies.

A September study.

Try It Again is a small leather collection for people who learn with their hands – the ones who let the ball go, watch closely, and then rebuild the ramp. Five designs about the pleasure of making things move.

First, the collection's namesake. We released a ball at the top of the tag and let the dotted line record the whole trip from ramp to ramp, until it comes to rest – TRY IT AGAIN waits underneath, because one run is never enough.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

Black-and-white Marble Run stamp artwork designed for leather luggage tags in the Try It Again collection.

The black tag carries the gold.

A black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with a bouncing marble path and Try It Again motto from the Try It Again collection.

The warm red and the navy press blind.

A warm red leather luggage tag blind stamped with the Marble Run design from the Try It Again collection.

A navy leather luggage tag blind stamped with a bouncing marble path from the Try It Again collection.

Next, the keychains, made for the pocket where things get dropped. The ball lets go at the top of the fob and the dots stretch apart as it falls – GRAVITY DOES THE REST. Half of every experiment comes free.

Black-and-white Gravity stamp artwork designed for leather keychains in the Try It Again collection.

On the black fob the fall is pressed in gold, a small bright thing entering the night sky.

A black leather keychain stamped in gold with Gravity Does the Rest from the Try It Again collection.

The golden tan fob presses blind.

A golden tan leather keychain blind stamped with the Gravity design from the Try It Again collection.

Then, a kaleidoscope medallion for the toiletry bag. Count anything inside the ring and you will always reach the same number – SIX OF EVERYTHING, which is also a fair inventory of a toiletry bag.

Black-and-white Six of Everything kaleidoscope stamp artwork designed for leather toiletry bags in the Try It Again collection.

It presses blind into the corner of the navy bag on its deep brown base. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Navy and deep brown leather toiletry bags blind stamped with the Six of Everything medallion from the Try It Again collection.

The catchall tray asked for its subject by name. Around LOOSE PARTS we scattered what a curious pocket actually holds – a hex nut, a stray key and the rest – so the tray ends every day doing exactly what it says. Golden tan, blind deboss.

Black-and-white Loose Parts stamp artwork designed for a leather catchall tray in the Try It Again collection.

A golden tan leather catchall tray blind stamped with Loose Parts and six pocket-object symbols from the Try It Again collection.

And finally, the one we liked the most. SHOW YOUR WORK, the schoolroom's oldest commandment, pressed into the corner of the journal that makes obeying it a pleasure – a ruled line beneath the words, and a pencil already lying under it.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

Black-and-white Show Your Work stamp artwork designed for leather journals in the Try It Again collection.

One journal in deep green, one in warm pencil gray.

A deep green leather journal blind stamped with Show Your Work and a pencil from the Try It Again collection.

A warm gray leather journal blind stamped with Show Your Work and a pencil from the Try It Again 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 you'd like any of these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.

P.S.

An alternate black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with the Marble Run design from the Try It Again collection.

An alternate warm red leather luggage tag blind stamped with a bouncing marble path from the Try It Again collection.

An alternate navy leather luggage tag blind stamped with the Try It Again marble path from the Try It Again collection.

An alternate black leather keychain stamped in gold with Gravity Does the Rest from the Try It Again collection.

An alternate golden tan leather keychain blind stamped with the Gravity design from the Try It Again collection.

An alternate navy and deep brown leather toiletry-bag stack with the Six of Everything stamp from the Try It Again collection.

An alternate golden tan leather catchall tray blind stamped with the Loose Parts design from the Try It Again collection.

An alternate deep green leather journal blind stamped with Show Your Work from the Try It Again collection.

An alternate warm gray leather journal blind stamped with Show Your Work from the Try It Again collection.