Walkway to the Sea – a Hyannis, Massachusetts leather collection

An August study.

Between Hyannis Main Street and the harbor runs a five-minute walk paved in a brick wave, past a dozen painted shanties where Cape Cod makers sell what their own hands made. We designed a small leather collection for that walk and named it after the path itself – Walkway to the Sea. Five original stamps, one for each thing a harbor day fills: keys and pockets, luggage and pages.

First, the ferries. Hyannis is where the mainland lets go of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, so the luggage tags carry a little steamer pushing off toward two low islands, with TO THE ISLANDS set over the water it has yet to cross. The trio wears shanty paint, from harbor navy to poppy red with a pale sea-blue between.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Blueberry, pale sea-blue, and poppy-red leather luggage tags stamped with a ferry bound for the islands, from the Walkway to the Sea collection of Hyannis, Massachusetts.

Next, the walk itself. The brick path rolls down to the water in a wave pattern, so we built a cresting wave out of bricks and ringed it with the route's honest promise – FIVE MINUTES TO THE SEA. One fob in honeyed russet for the brick, one in harbor navy for where it lands.

Honeyed russet and blueberry leather keychains stamped with a brick-built wave, from the Walkway to the Sea collection of Hyannis, Massachusetts.

Then the toiletry bags, stamped in the corner with a dock cleat, its line hitched home, and MADE FAST beneath – harbor language for tied down and staying put, which is all anyone asks of a bag mid-journey. Navy over dark espresso, like hull paint over dock timber.

Blueberry and dark espresso leather toiletry bags stamped with a dock cleat and Made Fast, from the Walkway to the Sea collection of Hyannis, Massachusetts.

A catchall tray is the shore where a day washes up. We arched the old gangway call ALL ASHORE over a tide line that has already brought in its small cargo of beach finds. It looks genuinely beautiful pressed into the golden tan.

An Arizona leather catchall tray stamped with a shell, key, coin, and tide line, from the Walkway to the Sea collection of Hyannis, Massachusetts.

And finally, the shanties. Every week new makers open the doors and hang new work, so the journals carry a little gabled shanty with its doors thrown wide on an empty white room, and NEW WORK WEEKLY beneath. A journal keeps the same schedule if you let it. One in weathered warm gray, one in pale sea-blue.

Country-gray and pale sea-blue leather journals stamped with an open artist shanty, from the Walkway to the Sea collection of Hyannis, Massachusetts.

We made this out of love. Leatherius Woodman is on a mission to create and share artifacts of beauty, craft and love – this collection 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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