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Made for a friend as a birthday gift
Horween vegetable tanned horse-butt exterior
Custom made billfold
Features 5 card slots, 1 ID card slot and 1 coin compartment
Custom short wallet. Using burgundy chromexcel leather from Horween.
Features a polaroid photo holder
Original design by Kuroba Leatherworks. Made from a single piece of 4-5oz leather. Designed to be slim, minimalistic and simple in construction without compromising functionality and security.
Minimalist 4 cm stitching construction
Hidden snap closure. 4 card slots and 1 bill compartment
Simple construction that holds cash and cards securely
Made this as a gift for a friend
Made from 4-5oz and 2-3oz Wickett and Craig vegetable tanned leather
4 card slots, 1 bill compartment and 1 coin compartment
So i got on to making another billfold wallet using horsehide as an exterior, this time designed to hold lots of cards.
Features 1 bill compartment and 8 card slots in total. Measures approximately 9 cm x 11.5 cm
Once again the horsehide used is one rich in “character”, as some will call it. Naturally acquired scars and uneven tones on the leather create a an interesting, somewhat distressed texture, unique to that particular piece of leather.
Closeup on some of the scars
Burnished edges to emphasize the formal and classic style of the wallet.
The leather has been treated with neatsfoot oil and beeswax, worked in by hand to condition and protect. As you might have noticed, the leather has a slightly deeper color tone and has developed a mellow sheen as a result.
Spent the whole weekend working on this. Like the previous billfold, this is made from horsehide for the exterior shell and cowhide for the interiors.
The snap on the coin pouch is a tad off center (oops), hence making the flap a little asymmetrical looking
Horsehide is not widely available. Clean and blemish free ones are even less so as horsehide can only be obtained from horses which have died from natural causes. Hence most of the horsehide available are from old battle scarred horses which do not yield very clean leather.
The ones that I could get my hands on had its fair share of natural scars, blemishes and uneven tones, reflective of the horse’s course of life. A section of the leather which had some interesting color textures due to its imperfections was chosen and cut out for this wallet shell.
1 billfold compartment, 1 coin compartment 4 card slots
A comparison with the wallet that ive been using heavily for the past 2-3 months
Leather used for the exterior shell is cut from the same hide.
The leather has darkened quite dramatically, turning into a color resembling mahogany – dark brown with reddish undertones.
The surface has also become very smooth and polished.
Horsehide exterior, cowhide interior
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