Walletville Wallet

Walletville wallet

We’re NOT becoming a lifestyle company, we’re not trying to take over the little parts of your life, or in this case, replace the wallet your loved one gave you. Just, if your current wallet is trashed or you just don’t like it, or if you need another one for whatever reason, we are happy to add to your quality of life with this one.  A Japanese friend gave me one 37 years ago—he said it was a traditional Japanese style wallet, but I’ll consult Blue Lug on that—and I lost it after ten years, when I sent it in to a NorCal sewing team to copy. They made them for us, but I never got my original back. When they closed shop or disappeared into the woods (would not surprise me), I put a call out to readers to send me theirs so we could copy it again, and that was five years ago.

Now they’re back. Roman narrowed it a bit so it’d fit in his front pocket, but he didn’t wreck anything by doing so. The fabric is Sunforger, all cotton, made for covering boats in the dock. It’s waterproof, sunresistant, rotproof, and we use it for the tongue-flaps on Sackville saddlesacks and Banana Sacks.

This is an historical fabric. In the 1960s and maybe before, and at least until the early ‘80s, it was used by a Cupertino, CA company called Antelope Camping, who supplied all of the Bay Area Boy Scouts with packs of various sizes and types, from external-frame backpacks to small daypacks. When I was working at REI, mid-‘70s to mid-‘80s, I had access to every friggin’ pack in the world, but something drew me to Antelope, and I got a daypack and a fanny pack. Lost the fanny pack, still have the daypack, and it is a model for strong stitching and simple design. It was made better than any of the daypacks REI sold , and after many tons of years of use and one replaced zipper, it’s still solid and in use.

The wallet has three sleeves (compartments). You can stack credit cards and drivers licenses and medical cards etc, and it’s always easy to pick one out. There’s a sleeve for bills from any country in the world. The long, back sleeves is for coins. They slide to the bottom, and to get one you tilt the wallet up, holding the credit cards in place with your thumb so they don’t get scattered like dry leaves, and the lip at the end catches them handily. Who uses coins anymore? Anyway, you can put other things back there, too. You’ll figure it out. Happy spending!