Worth Keeping – a leather gift collection of small kept things · Volume I-D
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of leather stamping studies.
A September study – Volume I-D.
Worth Keeping is a small collection about the things people hold onto, and the people they hold onto them for. Five stamped designs, each written for the moment a gift proves somebody noticed how you live.
First, the design that named the collection. In a shop of found treasures everything wears a string tag, so we drew one, eyelet and string included, and wrote WORTH KEEPING across it. Pressed into the corner of a journal, it hands the verdict over to whoever fills the pages.
It looks genuinely beautiful – in deep espresso and in pale greige.
Next, the catchall tray. Whatever leaves your pockets at the end of the day lands here, so the base admits it plainly: LOST & FOUND, lettered like an old depot sign, with a skeleton key resting beneath the words.
On the golden tan tray the press reads like a brand burned into an auction crate.
Then the keychains. We put a keyhole with light bursting through it above the words ALMOST HOME – the thought a key actually carries on the last mile of the drive. The black fob carries the design in gold, playing the lamplight. On chestnut it presses blind and quiet.
After that, the luggage tags. We sent a swallow down the length of the tag – the bird that finds the same eaves every spring – flying straight into the words ALWAYS COMES BACK. A promise for the bag, and for whoever it is you drive to the airport.
The black tag carries the swallow in gold. Pale sea-blue and warm caramel press blind. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.
And finally, the toiletry kit, the gift for somebody who is leaving anyway. A small oval seal in the lower corner says TAKE GOOD CARE above a sprig – meaning the contents, and meaning the person. The stack renders in honeyed russet over dark espresso.
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.
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