Instead of lining our wallets with some shiny pretty nylon fabric that tears, we glue and sew tough smooth pigskin to the back of the already tough and thick full grain leather.
#Wallet for men skin#
It causes bad sleep in bedding and infertility and skin problems with clothing. Polyester is the best for thread for leather wallets, but bad for almost everything else. It is made from long continuous filaments of Polyester with no breaks in it. Our expensive German thread was engineered for strength and durability. Those fibers release from each other with light friction, heat and UV light and the wallet falls apart. Wallets sewn with low cost low quality nylon thread fall apart quickly because the thread is made from a whole lot of really short fibers wound together to make a long thread.
But if there’s a needle tear in a loose fibered leather wallet, then when the leather dries out in those holes the tears will expand. If that hole is in tight fibered leather, it won’t tear. Most sew at 9 plus stitches in a single inch. We purposely sew our leather wallets at no more stitches than 7 per inch. If the needle holes are too close together, then the leather will tear like perforated paper. That’s like a roofer PAINTING pretty shingles on the decking of your roof instead of laying shingles down.Ī sewing machine is actually a perforation machine and every hole is the beginning of a tear in the wallet. The bottom half of the hide is called split or genuine leather and is painted and shined up to look pretty.
That leather wallet falls apart because it can’t keep the moisture in or out very well and dries out quickly. It’s sold to low quality companies somewhere over the sea whose craftsmen have soft little tear stained hands. The super low priced bottom half of the hide has no grain and the fibers are looser. Grain to leather is what shingles are to a roof. The grain is the top layer of super tough, tight and water resistant fibers that protected the cow and what gives leather its bareknuckle tough reputation. They sell it to companies with thick wristed, calloused handed skilled craftsmen like ours. The very expensive top half of the hide is called full grain because it has the full amount of grain. Now the tannery has two hides to sell to wallet and belt makers. But the hide is sent to the tannery and its thick skin is then split, the top half from the bottom.
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