Write Soon × Leatherius Woodman – a leather collection for the writing life

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

A September study. Volume I-B.

Write Soon is a small collection for people who put words on paper. Each design is pressed from the language of writing itself – postcard lines and printers' marks, made to outlast the errands they name.

First, we dressed the luggage tag as the back of a postcard and set the oldest line in travel writing on it – WISH YOU WERE HERE beside an empty stamp corner, because whoever carries this tag is the one who went. We ran it in warm red and in pale sea-blue. The black tag carries the line in gold.

WISH YOU WERE HERE postcard-back leather stamp artwork

WISH YOU WERE HERE postcard design stamped on a poppy-red leather luggage tag

WISH YOU WERE HERE postcard design stamped on a pale sea-blue leather luggage tag

WISH YOU WERE HERE postcard design stamped in gold on a black leather luggage tag

Next, we borrowed the striped border of the airmail envelope and folded PAR AVION inside it, with a little prop plane already underway. A toiletry bag goes by air; we marked it accordingly, navy over chestnut.

PAR AVION propeller-aircraft and airmail-border leather stamp artwork

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

PAR AVION airmail design stamped on blueberry and Sicilian-brown leather toiletry bags

Then, the way every good letter ends. WRITE SOON, with a nib caught mid-stroke beneath the words as if it had just finished them – keys leave the house, and this is what you say at the door. One keychain in deep green, one in warm tan.

WRITE SOON fountain-pen-nib leather stamp artwork

It looks genuinely beautiful.

WRITE SOON design stamped on a forest-green leather keychain

WRITE SOON design stamped on a caramel leather keychain

After that, we gave the catchall one enormous period and set FULL STOP beneath it. The tray is where the day's sentence ends and the pockets empty – golden tan, pressed deep.

FULL STOP monumental-period leather stamp artwork

FULL STOP design stamped on an Arizona-tan leather catchall tray

And finally, the printers' pointing hand. A manicule has marked the passage worth keeping since before movable type; on the corner of a journal it points at everything still to be written. NOTA BENE – note well. One journal in deep wine, one in pale greige the color of good paper.

NOTA BENE printer's-hand leather stamp artwork

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

NOTA BENE printer's hand stamped on a sangria leather journal

NOTA BENE printer's hand stamped on a gray-sand leather journal

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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