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Six leather travel articles arranged in the order they are handed over on a trip, photographed from above on a deep green groundThe same six articles after two years of travel, the leather darkened and creased

Leather for the counter

Everything you hand over at a counter, in one fold.

Passport covers, document folios, luggage tags, cable rolls and pouches. Thirty-eight articles, each one stating its leather grade, its tanning, its measured thickness and its empty weight before you buy it.

See all 38 articlesFind yours in three questions

Priced in United States Dollars. Free US shipping over USD 69.

The same six, two years later

Why these four

A trip is four countersand one loose handful.

Everything we make exists because of something that happens at one of them. Nothing here is a bag, a suitcase or a wallet — those are other people’s problems.

  1. 01 — Check-in

    Passport, booking reference, bag tag

    The first counter of the trip, and the one where you are holding the most at once.

  2. 02 — Security

    Boarding pass, ID, everything out of your pockets

    Whatever is loose in a coat pocket ends up in a grey tray. Keep it in one piece of leather instead.

  3. 03 — Gate

    Boarding pass again, sometimes passport again

    One-handed, standing, with a bag on your shoulder. This is what the vertical folio is for.

  4. 04 — Arrival

    Passport, arrival card filled in on the spot, customs form

    The card has to be written before you reach the desk, which is why one cover carries a pen.

Six lines

All 38 articles
Passport Covers — One booklet, or fourOne booklet, or fourPassport Covers7 articles · USD 34–112Document Folios — Up to A5, nothing largerUp to A5, nothing largerDocument Folios7 articles · USD 58–186Luggage Tags — Read from two metresRead from two metresLuggage Tags6 articles · USD 18–56Cable & Tech Rolls — Cables, adapters, the brickCables, adapters, the brickCable & Tech Rolls6 articles · USD 42–128Small Pouches — The loose handfulThe loose handfulSmall Pouches6 articles · USD 24–74Sets — Configured by tripConfigured by tripSets6 articles · USD 68–298
A leather document folio resting closed on a counter in a shaft of side light

Eight seconds at a desk

The whole product exists for one moment.

You reach the counter, the agent asks, and everything has to arrive in their hand at once. That is the moment these are designed around — not the packing, not the queue, not the flight.

The same full-grain passport cover after 0 months of carryThe same full-grain passport cover after 6 months of carryThe same full-grain passport cover after 12 months of carryThe same full-grain passport cover after 24 months of carry

Day one

Article A-07, one hide, four dates

Drag through two years of it

Uncoated vegetable-tanned leather does not stay the colour you bought. We would rather you saw the whole arc before ordering than discovered it in month three.

Pale straw. Square corners, an even surface, no marks. This is how every uncoated article leaves us and it is the only week it will look like this.

What the label says

Grade, tannage, finish —on every article.

Federal labelling rules for leather goods exist because “leather” on its own tells you almost nothing. One of our thirty-eight articles is coated split leather, and its page says so in the first paragraph rather than the fine print.

  • Full-grain, top-grain or split — stated by name, never as just "leather"
  • Vegetable, chrome or combination tannage, and what that means for how it ages
  • Measured thickness in millimetres and empty weight in grams
  • No bonded leather anywhere in the catalogue
Read how we label
Three leather swatches with their cut edges to camera, showing full-grain, top-grain and split structure
Macro of beeswaxed linen saddle stitching through chestnut leather

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Three questions, two minutes

Tell us what you hand over.We will tell you what fits.

Not a style quiz. You tick the things that actually leave your hands at a counter, say how many of you are travelling and where the article has to live, and the Fold Finder answers with one or two articles and what they will not hold.

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Where most people start

Four to begin with

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Sold by the company that used to take your bags at the counter.

The company behind Passfold spent years on the airport side of that counter, handling other people’s luggage in South Florida. Passfold is its retail brand, and it exists because the thing everyone fumbled was never the luggage — it was the handful of documents that had to come out at the same time.

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Hands passing a leather document folio across a counter