Write Soon – a leather collection for the writing life – Volume I-D

From the Practice Log.

A September study – Volume I-D.

Write Soon is a small collection for people who still write by hand. Five original stamps from the writing life, pressed into leather – journals and luggage tags among them.

First, the send-off. Every good letter ends with the same request, so we set WRITE SOON among the wavy bars of a postmark and put a swallow in the cancel to carry it. It travels lengthwise on the luggage tags, in warm red and deep green. The black tag carries it in gold.

The black-and-white WRITE SOON postmark and swallow stamp plate from the Write Soon leather collection.

A poppy-red leather luggage tag stamped with WRITE SOON and a flying swallow from the Write Soon collection.

A forest-green leather luggage tag stamped with WRITE SOON and a flying swallow from the Write Soon collection.

A black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with WRITE SOON and a flying swallow from the Write Soon collection.

Next, we drew an ampersand the way a pointed pen wants it drawn – heavy where the stroke presses, hairline where it lifts. An ampersand always means two of something, which is what makes it the right keychain to give away. On warm tan it presses as a quiet relief. The black fob takes it in gold.

The black-and-white penman's ampersand stamp plate from the Write Soon leather collection.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

A caramel leather keychain blind-stamped with a penman's ampersand from the Write Soon collection.

A black leather keychain stamped in gold with a penman's ampersand from the Write Soon collection.

Then we hung a sign on the toiletry bags – GONE WRITING, arched over a fountain pen nib in a small round badge, pressed into the lower corner of the warm tan bag over deep brown. For whoever packs more notebooks than clothes.

The black-and-white GONE WRITING fountain-pen-nib stamp plate from the Write Soon leather collection.

Caramel and dark-espresso leather toiletry bags blind-stamped with GONE WRITING from the Write Soon collection.

After that, the catchall tray. We pressed a checklist into its golden tan base, and the last box – GOOD IDEAS – stays open on purpose. Emptying your pockets onto it counts as list making.

The black-and-white KEYS COINS GOOD IDEAS checklist stamp plate from the Write Soon leather collection.

An Arizona-tan leather catchall tray stamped with a KEYS COINS GOOD IDEAS checklist from the Write Soon collection.

And finally, the one we like the most. A journal's first page is the hardest one, so the cover grants absolution in advance – ALL FIRST DRAFTS FORGIVEN, under a single honest inkblot. We pressed it into ink-bottle navy and deep wine.

The black-and-white ALL FIRST DRAFTS FORGIVEN inkblot stamp plate from the Write Soon leather collection.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

A blueberry leather journal stamped with ALL FIRST DRAFTS FORGIVEN from the Write Soon collection.

A sangria leather journal stamped with ALL FIRST DRAFTS FORGIVEN from the Write Soon collection.

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.