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How a Custom Wallet Comes Together: From a Sket...
How does a custom wallet begin? This article follows the making of one custom long wallet, from the customer's first sketch through layout planning, leather selection, and the finished piece.
How a Custom Wallet Comes Together: From a Sket...
How does a custom wallet begin? This article follows the making of one custom long wallet, from the customer's first sketch through layout planning, leather selection, and the finished piece.
Shinki Hikaku vs Horween — Two Characters of Shell
Shinki Hikaku and Horween shell cordovan aren't rivals — they're two different characters. Notes from a maker who has hand-stitched both for over a decade: surface, feel, and how each...
Shinki Hikaku vs Horween — Two Characters of Shell
Shinki Hikaku and Horween shell cordovan aren't rivals — they're two different characters. Notes from a maker who has hand-stitched both for over a decade: surface, feel, and how each...
Ten Years In — A Black Horween Bifold and a Nav...
Two pieces back from the same owner, ten years on — a black Horween bifold and a navy Shinki Hikaku money clip, and how each shell cordovan aged in its...
Ten Years In — A Black Horween Bifold and a Nav...
Two pieces back from the same owner, ten years on — a black Horween bifold and a navy Shinki Hikaku money clip, and how each shell cordovan aged in its...
5–6 Years In — Shinki Hikaku Shell Cordovan
Two black Shinki Hikaku Shell Cordovan bifolds, one from 2016 and one from 2018. Five and six years of daily use, and how the shell and the Buttero lining have...
5–6 Years In — Shinki Hikaku Shell Cordovan
Two black Shinki Hikaku Shell Cordovan bifolds, one from 2016 and one from 2018. Five and six years of daily use, and how the shell and the Buttero lining have...
Eight Years In — Horween and Shinki Hikaku Shel...
A Horween money clip and a Shinki Hikaku card wallet in burgundy, eight years on. How each shell cordovan aged in its own direction — and a fresh hand-stitch to...
Eight Years In — Horween and Shinki Hikaku Shel...
A Horween money clip and a Shinki Hikaku card wallet in burgundy, eight years on. How each shell cordovan aged in its own direction — and a fresh hand-stitch to...
Leather & Colors
Leather and thread options. A reference for your custom order. Shell CordovanShell cordovan is made from the fibrous layer beneath a horse's hindquarters. Each hide produces two small shells, which...
Leather & Colors
Leather and thread options. A reference for your custom order. Shell CordovanShell cordovan is made from the fibrous layer beneath a horse's hindquarters. Each hide produces two small shells, which...