The Barbed Beauty Speedy (Medium)

The hand tooled leather barrel bag in its most complete and most uncompromising expression — natural tan and dark brown two-tone hand tooled floral scroll and botanical motifs covering every exterior surface of the barrel form without exception, with brown whipstitch edging, dual buckle strap tabs, and dark brown top handles in the bag that represents Western leather artisanship at its absolute maximum. There is the Western leather bag that has tooled accents, the one that has a tooled panel, the one that has tooled handles — and then there is this, the bag that has tooled everything, the full-coverage two-tone hand tooled leather barrel that does not leave a single exterior surface of the barrel form uncarved, unpainted, or unworked. The natural tan and dark brown two-tone hand tooled floral scroll covers the complete front face, the complete back face, and the complete side panels of this barrel bag in the dense, all-over botanical composition that fills every available surface with the flowing scroll forms, the unfurling leaf motifs, and the daisy rosette accents of Western floral tooling executed without any concession to the difficulty of covering a three-dimensional curved form in edge-to-edge carved leather. The front face is the composition's showpiece — the full rectangular panel covered in the most complex and most densely worked botanical scroll arrangement in the collection, the scroll forms sweeping in long, flowing arcs from multiple origin points across the full panel surface, the individual leaf and frond forms filling every space between the sweeping scroll curves in the all-over coverage that leaves no natural tan leather background visible against the dark brown antiqued depths between the carved forms. The visual effect of the two-tone treatment on the fully covered front panel is the effect of a deep relief sculpture — the natural tan raised forms standing forward from the dark brown shadowed carved depths in a dimensional depth that the eye reads as three-dimensional even on the flat surface of the panel. Brown whipstitch runs along every seam and edge of the bag in the craft-consistent finishing detail that connects the dark handles to the body and the tooled surfaces to each other in the brown color that completes the full two-tone warm palette of the bag. Dual buckle strap tabs at the top of the bag — themselves hand tooled in the matching floral motif — provide the handle attachment in the most authentically Western hardware format, and the dark brown leather top handles complete the carry system in the deep chocolate tone that grounds the warm natural tan of the tooled body. Measures : 11” long x 8” deep