Well Tended – a leather collection about daily care

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of leather stamping studies.

A September study. Volume II.

Well Tended is a small collection about care that shows – the quiet daily kind that keeps plants green and good objects in service. Five original designs, each pressed into full-grain leather, a material that repays tending better than most.

First, the collection's creed. We tilted a watering can over a two-leaf sprout and set A LITTLE EVERY DAY under the falling drops – the whole secret of anything kept alive, carried on the ring that gets picked up every morning.

Black-and-white watering-can and sprout die artwork with A LITTLE EVERY DAY lettering for the Well Tended leather collection, Volume II.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather – once in warm tan like the flowerpot, once in deep brown like watered earth.

A warm tan leather keychain blind-stamped with a watering can, sprout and A LITTLE EVERY DAY.

A deep brown leather keychain blind-stamped with a watering can, sprout and A LITTLE EVERY DAY.

Next, the luggage tags. On the left a suitcase has just been lifted; on the right a potted plant keeps its composure, though the nearest leaf already leans after the door. Between them stands the traveler's promise – BACK BEFORE THE PLANTS NOTICE.

Black-and-white suitcase and potted-plant die artwork with BACK BEFORE THE PLANTS NOTICE lettering for Well Tended, Volume II.

The deep green and warm tan tags take the blind press. Black carries the gold.

A forest-green leather luggage tag blind-stamped with a suitcase, potted plant and BACK BEFORE THE PLANTS NOTICE.

A warm tan leather luggage tag blind-stamped with a suitcase, potted plant and BACK BEFORE THE PLANTS NOTICE.

A black leather luggage tag gold-stamped with a suitcase, potted plant and BACK BEFORE THE PLANTS NOTICE.

Then the toiletry bags, where the tending turns on the traveler. We crossed a shaving brush and a comb like garden tools and set DAILY UPKEEP beneath – you are the garden too.

Black-and-white crossed shaving-brush and comb die artwork with DAILY UPKEEP lettering for Well Tended, Volume II.

It rides the warm mid-gray bag stacked on chestnut.

Warm gray and chestnut leather toiletry bags blind-stamped with crossed grooming tools and DAILY UPKEEP.

After that, we planted a pencil. It stands point-down in its pot like a cutting, and two young leaves have opened at the top – SEE WHAT GROWS, because a journal is the one pot where whatever you plant comes up in your own hand.

Black-and-white planted-pencil die artwork with SEE WHAT GROWS lettering for the Well Tended leather collection, Volume II.

It looks genuinely beautiful. One journal in deep green, one in pale warm greige.

A forest-green leather journal blind-stamped with a planted pencil and SEE WHAT GROWS.

A pale warm greige leather journal blind-stamped with a planted pencil and SEE WHAT GROWS.

And finally, the evening harvest. We wove a garden basket with a key and a sprig of greens showing above the rim, and arched THE EVENING HARVEST over its handle – on the golden tan tray, whatever the day yielded gets emptied into the basket every night.

Black-and-white garden-trug die artwork with THE EVENING HARVEST lettering for the Well Tended leather collection, Volume II.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

A golden tan leather catchall tray blind-stamped with a garden trug and THE EVENING HARVEST.

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.

P.S.

An alternate forest-green leather luggage-tag render from the Well Tended collection.

A second alternate forest-green leather luggage-tag render from the Well Tended collection.

An alternate warm tan leather luggage-tag render from the Well Tended collection.

A second alternate warm tan leather luggage-tag render from the Well Tended collection.

An alternate black leather luggage-tag render with gold foil from the Well Tended collection.

A second alternate black leather luggage-tag render with gold foil from the Well Tended collection.

An alternate warm tan leather keychain render with a watering can and sprout from Well Tended.

An alternate deep brown leather keychain render with a watering can and sprout from Well Tended.

An alternate warm gray and chestnut leather toiletry-bag render from Well Tended.

An alternate golden tan leather catchall-tray render with a garden trug from Well Tended.

An alternate forest-green leather journal render with a planted pencil from Well Tended.

An alternate pale warm greige leather journal render with a planted pencil from Well Tended.