The Materials
Natural - Vegetable Tanned Cowhide
This leather is a vegetable tanned cowhide, left to its natural, whitest color. It is smooth and firm and will gradually darken with exposure to natural elements like sun, water and oil from the skin. Our Natural colored leather is from a tannery in New England. See our products available in Natural.
Russet - Vegetable Tanned Cowhide
Naturally dyed during the tanning process to a reddish-brown color, Russet leather is smooth and soft and will gradually develop a deep antique patina with exposure to natural elements. This leather is tanned in New England. See our products available in Russet.
Noir - Vegetable Tanned Cowhide
Naturally dyed to a deep black during the tanning process, Noir is a smooth, sophisticated leather that patinas gradually over time. Like the Russet and Natural color cowhide, our Noir leather comes from a 100 year-old tannery in New England. See our products available in Noir.
Sierra - Hot Stuffed Vegetable Tanned Cowhide
A beautiful dark brown veg-tan filled with conditioning oils and waxes for a soft break, or light area, when folded. This extra element of color to Sierra's natural dark hue, provides a rugged touch to a classic wallet. See our products available in Sierra.
Mulberry - Vegetable Tanned Cowhide Dyed with Mulberries
Hand dyed with mulberries picked at our studio, this exceptionally unique leather offers a rare hue to our vegetable tanned collection. Our Mulberry products are similarly scarce.
Corbeau - Vegetable Tanned Cowhide
This black leather is softer and has more texture than our Noir leather. It comes from a New York tannery with a long family tradition of working with leather. See our products available in Corbeau.
Horween Shell Cordovan No 8
Shell cordovan is one of the most famous and prized leathers in the world. For over 100 years, the Horween tannery in Chicago has been tanning the hindquarters of the horse into a soft, durable leather renown for its self-moisturizing oils and beautiful patina that develops over time. See our products in Shell Cordovan No 8.
Black Shell Cordovan
Black Shell Cordovan hails from the same time-honored Horween tanning process as "No 8" - but during the dying stage the horse butt is given a deep black color. See our products in Black Shell Cordovan.
Red Deer
A hunter harvested deerskin vegetable tanned in New York, Red Deer is a soft, full grain deerskin that patinas naturally over time. See accessories in Red Deer.
Deer Split
The double-sueded interior of a natural bark-tanned deerskin, Deer Split is a super soft material that ages gracefully with exposure to the elements. View our accessories in Deer Split.
Deerskin No 1 - Vegetable-Chrome Tanned Deerskin
This deerskin is a limited supply one-off hide used in the Deer Edo limited edition collection of 6 wallets. Hunter harvested, it was tanned using a mixture of vegetable and chrome tanning by an individual tanner in Colorado. The lining in these wallets is a limited supply of hand-woven hemp fabric of the Japanese Edo period. See the Deer Edo collection in the Product Archives.
Deerskin No 2 - Bark Tanned Deerskin
Harvested in Indiana, this deerskin is used in a special limited edition of Devilish Wallets and Judas Pouches. Soft and textured, it will develop a nice patina with use and exposure to natural oils and the elements. The lining in these wallets is a small bolt of Meiji-period (late 19th - early 20th c.) hand-woven, hand-dyed Japanese indigo cotton. See the Deerskin No 2 collection in the Product Archives
Deerskin No 3 - Bark Tanned Deerskin
Naturally bark tanned in Texas, this deerskin was cut into a limited edition of 6 Devilish Wallets. It is super soft and will continue to age with exposure to oils and sunlight. These wallets are lined with two rare Japanese shibori textiles dating to the Meiji period. See the Deerskin No 3 collection in the Product Archives
Deerskin No 4 - Bark Tanned Deerskin
Hunter-harvested in Indiana then naturally bark tanned in Texas, this deerskin made a limited edition of 10 wallets lined with an antique hemp Japanese textile, hand woven and dyed with natural indigo. See the Deerskin No 4 collection in the Product Archives
Deerskin No 5 - Bark Tanned Deerskin
This natural bark-tanned deerskin made a limited edition of 7 Devilish wallets and 5 Judas Pouches - all lined with an antique Japanese cotton plaid. See the Deerskin No 5 collection in the Product Archives
Cabron - Bark Tanned Goatskin
Cabron is a limited supply bark tanned goatskin from an individual tanner in rural Pennsylvania. It's a tough leather with a distinct rugged coloring. At 2/3 oz it's slightly thinner than our cowhide wallets. Cabron will age and darken a little over time, but its natural waterproof properties will resist absorption of most water and oils. See the Cabron products in the Product Archives.
Antique American Fabric
Still bright and colorful after 100 years, these deadstock cotton plaids and prints bring a classic accent to the natural hues of leather. Though colorfast for their time, the dyes in these fabrics are guaranteed to fade beautifully with time and use. These antique American textiles can be found in our bracelets and lining our wallets.
Antique French Fabric
Portraying pastoral scenes, or remenescing an era of Oriental trade, our antique French fabrics date back to the 19th and 18th centuries. We repurpose them into cloth bracelets and linings for our handmade wallets.
Antique Japanese Fabric
Straight from the antiquities market in Japan, these hand-dyed, hand-loomed indigo fabrics date to the Edo and Meiji periods (19th and early 20th century). The small hand loom was a common fixture in Japanese homes, and its strong, short bolts of selvage fabric were usually hand stitched together to create kimonos and futon covers. We use the fabric to add a beautiful proportion of sky to the earth tones of our leather wallets and bracelets.
Antique African Trade Beads
Hailing from an era of 19th c. European trade with Africa, these beads provide a hint of history and color to our beaded bracelets. The glass beads were typically manufactured in Venice, while the metal beads were handmade in Africa. See these bracelets in the Product Archives.
Antique American Bone and Antler Buttons
Usually unearthed in American Civil War-era dig sites or removed from antique clothing, these 19th c. bone and antler buttons have found a new life in Barrett Alley bracelets and the Judas Pouch, adding a splash of antiquity and uniqueness to the leather.