Worth Remembering – a leather collection for memory keepers

Volume I-B – a September study.

Worth Remembering is a small leather collection for the people who keep memories by hand. Its designs borrow the working devices of the scrapbook table, from the photo corner to the crop mark, and let each object say something true about the hands that carry it.

First, we mounted a photograph still to come – four photo corners holding an empty frame, with the words KEEP THIS standing inside. Whatever the tag travels with becomes the picture. We pressed it on luggage tags in warm tan and in warm red.

The black tag carries the design in gold.

Black-and-white die artwork of a photo-corner frame reading KEEP THIS for the Worth Remembering leather collection.

A caramel leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the KEEP THIS photo-corner design from Worth Remembering.

A poppy-red leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the KEEP THIS photo-corner design from Worth Remembering.

A black leather luggage tag gold-stamped with the KEEP THIS photo-corner design from Worth Remembering.

Next, a mosaic one tile short of done. Eight tiles are set; the ninth hovers just over its gap, about to be placed – THE LAST PIECE. A keychain is exactly that: the piece you pick up last, so the day can begin. It comes in navy and in golden tan.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

Black-and-white die artwork of a nearly completed tile mosaic reading THE LAST PIECE for Worth Remembering.

A blueberry leather keychain blind-debossed with THE LAST PIECE tile mosaic from Worth Remembering.

An arizona leather keychain blind-debossed with THE LAST PIECE tile mosaic from Worth Remembering.

Then we set WORK IN PROGRESS between four crop marks, the way a proof sheet declares a page still open, and stamped it into the corner of the toiletry bags, warm mid-gray over chestnut. A bag that holds someone's tools is always mid-project – and so, happily, is the maker.

Black-and-white die artwork reading WORK IN PROGRESS between crop marks for Worth Remembering.

Country-gray and sicilian leather toiletry bags blind-debossed with WORK IN PROGRESS from Worth Remembering.

For the catchall tray in golden tan, we drew scissors caught mid-cut, the offcuts still falling, and set SAVE THE SCRAPS beneath them. Every maker knows the scrap saved today turns out to be the missing piece next week – the tray is where it waits.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Black-and-white die artwork of scissors, paper scraps and SAVE THE SCRAPS for Worth Remembering.

An arizona leather catchall tray blind-debossed with the SAVE THE SCRAPS scissors design from Worth Remembering.

And finally, the one we liked the most. A small photograph sits mounted at the top; beneath it run the words LEAVE ROOM FOR THE STORY, and under the words waits a single ruled line, left empty. The journals come in deep wine and in deep green, like old album spines.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

Black-and-white die artwork of a photo window, a ruled line and LEAVE ROOM FOR THE STORY for Worth Remembering.

A sangria leather wrap journal blind-debossed with LEAVE ROOM FOR THE STORY from Worth Remembering.

A forest-green leather wrap journal blind-debossed with LEAVE ROOM FOR THE STORY from Worth Remembering.

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.