And what materials make the best wallet? Well read on to find out. How are leather wallets made? March 05, By Albert Varkki. Choosing The Right Leather One of the most important steps in the creation of any wallet is choosing the materials. Here at Von Baer , we only use the highest grade of leather known as "full grain leather", which is the best available on the market.
This makes our wallets more durable, and more water resistant that others, allowing it to look as good as new for many years, and retain that fantastic real leather smell. This material is extensively flexible as it can mimic both characteristics of cotton and leather. The materials in use are as random as the designer allows, creating a whole new possibility for exquisite looking wallets.
These materials, in turn, allow for great modification in wallet shape and functionality. This website uses cookies to manage authentication, navigation, and other functions. Accessing our website, you agree that we can use these types of cookies. Types and materials of Wallet Many people underestimate the importance of their wallets.
Settling On Wallet Type Depending on your intended use, you will probably need a specific-sized wallet: Slim Wallets: Over the last couple of years, these have become the popular wallet choices owing to their ease of use. Billfolds: bi-fold wallet is not too big or too small; in fact, it is a perfect size for everyone.
Long Wallets: If you hate having to fold your bills every other time, a long wallet will take care of this permanently. Coin Wallets: A coin wallet is a simple wallet with a coin pouch to store coins and a number of slots to store cards. The most frequently used leather material is: Leather: The leather is one of the most common types of materials that you can see in a wallet.
Cotton: Cotton and fabric is now being used by leading fashion brands for the design of superb, customized wallets as it is entirely possible to add multiple colors, accurately expressing various personalities. Synthetic: There are many types of synthetic material that you can find on the market.
Be the First to Know. Sign up for our Newsletter. Terms of Use. The most important classification is based on the part of animal hide from which the leather is made.
The animal hide is quite thick and unusable as it is. So, to make it more useful, it is split into several layers. The topmost layer is called full grain leather , which has many natural imperfections. The leather obtained from all the other layers below that is termed genuine leather.
Good quality wallets are almost always made from full grain leather. On the other hand, a genuine leather wallet might not last very long. Pic: Aurochs Gravity Bifold Wallet. Question is, how to identify full grain leather wallet? Full grain leather has small dots on the surface. These are the places where the hair was once attached.
Apart from the small dots, full grain leather surface might also have natural imperfections and scars from insect bites.
To identify a full grain wallet, examine the leather surface closely and, if possible, use a magnifying glass. At Aurochs, all our wallets are crafted from full grain leather obtained from one of the finest tanneries of South Asia. Functionality is as important as longevity when choosing a wallet.
You don't want to be stuck with a very good quality wallet for a long time that isn't helping you much with your everyday needs. Designers often tend to struggle with balancing functionality with aesthetics.
Slimmer and more minimalist looking wallets are all the rage these days, but they come with a lot of compromises and not much room for anything. Before you get the perfect wallet to suit your needs, you will have to look into your current one and figure out how many cards, cash, and other items you carry daily.
If you are a minimalist and only carry a few items, your choice of wallet will be different think of a card holder from someone who carries a lot of these. Men's accessories have shifted entirely- the Rolex is now the Apple Watch, the leather loafer in now the Nike Flyknit and the leather briefcase is a lightweight nylon backpack from your favorite outdoor brand.
Pioneer is a part of this modern shift and our goal is that our wallets perfectly fit into this new way. But leather is so timeless. We cannot deny a leather wallet is 'classic' just like Classical music and the Model T and medieval armor -they have their place in history and are nice to refer back to now and again but as a daily commuter I'd prefer a Tesla over a Model T- or a Tesla over a Chevy for that matter.
Objects become antiquated because they lose their utility or relevance when someone better comes along and go from being functional to sentimental. There is a time and place for sentimentality but for a daily tool in your back pocket at all times- a modern, slimmer, stronger, minimalist, waterproof wallet makes sense.
We didn't take a leather wallet pattern and skin it in synthetics. That would be missing the point. We painstakingly developed our own way of manufacturing wallets- starting with innovative fabrics that didn't exist 30 years ago.
With these materials we engineered our own core technology we call FutureForm that fuses our wallets together using less stitching and therefore increased durability. This keeps the wallets thin, yet structured. Every single wallet is patterned and folded and fused in a way that no other wallet has even been before and takes advantage of the materials in a way leather never could.
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