The Working Garden, Volume I-C -- a leather stamping collection

Volume I-C – a September independent study.

The Working Garden – a small collection for people who put plants to work. Hammer a flower and it prints; press a die into leather and the mark stays. The two crafts turned out to be cousins, so we drew the first one into the second.

First, the mallet's side of the story. It hangs a breath above the bloom, and underneath runs THIS TOO SHALL PRESS – the old consolation, retooled by whoever is holding the hammer.

Black-and-white stamp plate of a flower-printing mallet above a bloom with the words This Too Shall Press.

Pressed into golden tan and deep green, it lands just right.

Arizona leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the This Too Shall Press design.

Forest Green leather keychain blind-debossed with the This Too Shall Press design.

Next, a fact every dyer keeps close: indigo grows green and carries its blue hidden inside. We drew the sprig in open line and let a single leaflet show what it holds – THE BLUE IS IN THE LEAF.

Black-and-white stamp plate of an indigo sprig with the words The Blue Is in the Leaf.

Naturally, it went onto navy leather, so the leaf sits on the color it was hiding.

Blueberry leather luggage tag blind-debossed with The Blue Is in the Leaf design.

Blueberry leather keychain blind-debossed with The Blue Is in the Leaf design.

On the toiletry kit – navy over chestnut – the sprig sits small in the corner, the way a maker signs cloth.

Blueberry and Sicilian Brown leather dopp kits blind-debossed with The Blue Is in the Leaf design.

Then the naked lady lily. In spring it is just a clutch of plain leaves; it lets them wither, and toward summer's end one bare stem rises and opens its trumpets all at once. THE FLOWER COMES LATER – a good sentence to keep where you write.

Black-and-white stamp plate of a leafless naked lady lily with the words The Flower Comes Later.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

Parisian Blossom leather luggage tag blind-debossed with The Flower Comes Later design.

On the journals it presses into the corner – pale rose for the bloom, deep green for the leaves it gave up.

Blush leather journal blind-debossed with The Flower Comes Later design.

Forest Green leather journal blind-debossed with The Flower Comes Later design.

And finally, the catchall tray, which ends everyone's day the same way. We laid a loose ring of gathered things around WHAT THE DAY GATHERED – and slipped a house key in among the botanicals, since keys are what the tray will catch.

Black-and-white stamp plate of gathered botanicals and a key with the words What the Day Gathered.

Arizona leather catchall tray blind-debossed with the What the Day Gathered design.

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.