Tumbled & Strung – a leather collection for stone collectors and beadmakers

Tumbled & Strung – Volume I-D. A September study.

A small leather collection for people who collect stones and string beads – five stamped designs about how small treasures are found, carried and eventually made into something worn.

First, the luggage tags. We set a single crystal point, freshly broken from its matrix, under the words CARRY SOMETHING RARE – the tag rides on the bag, and the habit of finding rare things rides along with its owner.

Black-and-white crystal point stamp artwork for the Tumbled & Strung leather collection for stone collectors.

The dusty lavender and pale sea-blue tags take a blind deboss. The black tag carries the design in gold foil, the way gold runs through quartz.

A black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with a crystal point and CARRY SOMETHING RARE from the Tumbled & Strung collection.

A lilac leather luggage tag blind-debossed with a crystal point and CARRY SOMETHING RARE from the Tumbled & Strung collection.

A pale sea-blue leather luggage tag blind-debossed with a crystal point and CARRY SOMETHING RARE from the Tumbled & Strung collection.

Next, the keychains. Keys already live on a ring, so we strung them like beads – one old key knotted into the middle of a strand, with STRUNG BY HAND beneath. Anyone who has spent an evening over a beading board will read it at arm's length.

Black-and-white bead strand and skeleton key stamp artwork for the Tumbled & Strung leather collection for beadmakers.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather – once in lapis navy, once in golden tan.

A lapis-navy leather keychain blind-debossed with beads, a skeleton key and STRUNG BY HAND from the Tumbled & Strung collection.

A golden-tan leather keychain blind-debossed with beads, a skeleton key and STRUNG BY HAND from the Tumbled & Strung collection.

Then the toiletry bags, which spend their lives being thrown into luggage – so we gave them the rock tumbler's one truth: a rough nugget beside a finished oval, over EVERYTHING POLISHED WAS TUMBLED FIRST.

Black-and-white rough and polished stone stamp artwork for the Tumbled & Strung leather collection for stone collectors.

The stack runs honeyed russet over deep espresso, banded like tiger's eye.

Honeyed-russet and dark-espresso leather toiletry bags blind-debossed with EVERYTHING POLISHED WAS TUMBLED FIRST from the Tumbled & Strung collection.

For the catchall tray we tipped a drawstring pouch on its side, spilling the day's finds, and wrote EMPTY YOUR POCKETS beneath – which is exactly what a tray on the dresser is for. It sits in golden tan.

Black-and-white pouch, pocket stones and ring stamp artwork for the Tumbled & Strung leather collection for crystal collectors.

A golden-tan leather catchall tray blind-debossed with a pouch, stones, ring and EMPTY YOUR POCKETS from the Tumbled & Strung collection.

And finally, the one we liked the most. A geode split open – plain rind outside, a hollow lined with crystal teeth – above THE GOOD PART IS INSIDE. True of geodes, and just as true of notebooks.

Black-and-white geode cross-section stamp artwork for the Tumbled & Strung leather collection for stone collectors.

It looks genuinely beautiful, pressed into deep wine and deep green – the garnet and the malachite of the shelf.

A deep-wine leather journal blind-debossed with a geode and THE GOOD PART IS INSIDE from the Tumbled & Strung collection.

A deep-green leather journal blind-debossed with a geode and THE GOOD PART IS INSIDE from the Tumbled & Strung 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 these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.