Compact cork wallet

Two slanted slots, three flat ones, and a cut-out window

Unfolded, the wallet lies in three panels. The left one takes two slots set on a slant, the middle one stacks three across the horizontal, so there are five places for cards in all, before the window on the right flap is even counted. The window itself is a rectangle with softened corners, stitched all the way round. A rounded notch is cut into its outer edge, and a small silver rivet sits just above. If this size feels tight, the longer wallet formats listed alongside it run to multi-pocket designs.

A sand lining with a fine cross-hatch

All three panels are lined in the same sand-coloured cross-hatch, a texture you feel more than you see. The stitching thread matches it exactly, so the seams read as a line rather than a contrast. Folded shut, the wallet shows its build on the edge: printed cork, then a thin sand line of lining, then cork again.

Mandala-printed cork wallet: how the colours are held apart

The whole print rests on one device: black line work. That continuous black outline closes the petals, the rows of saw teeth and the coiled scrolls, and it stops one colour from bleeding into the next. Terracotta takes the large medallions, coral runs through the rows of short strokes, sage and petrol blue fill the smaller shapes wedged between the medallions.

Under the ink the cork still shows, pale flecks and open pores breaking up every flat area of colour. That is what keeps the print from looking like a fabric swatch.

Where the print stops and the fitting begins

The top of the front panel is left out of the print. The cork stays bare there, with a tight diagonal grain, and it gives the fitting something plain to sit against. The silver frame lies flat across it, two tapered arms whose rounded heads butt together at the centre.

The pocket for change hangs off that frame and shares nothing with the card slots. Pull the arms apart and a sand-lined gusset opens between them, pinned at either end. If loose change is all you need to carry, coin purses kept as a separate range close in other ways.

What the wallet is made of, line by line

Across the folded panels the wallet comes to 11x9cm, measured shut. The print carries on over every edge, so the pattern you see on the front is only part of what is there.