“Mine has a little blue bird that the product photos did not have. I am obsessed with it. It feels like it was stitched just for me.”
Hand-embroidered in Chiang Mai
Artisan – Chiang Mai artisanal wallet
5 · Based on 38 reviews
$49.00
Free shipping over 100 USD — otherwise 4.90 USD
DHL Express or InPost — tracked, signed, insured
Stitched entirely by hand by Chiang Mai artisans. Your wallet will differ slightly from the photographs — the drift of a bird, the lean of a tree. That difference is the signature of the woman who made it.
From our bench to your door
Where your wallet will be
4 days at the bench
Made and packed
Oct 16 – Oct 20Cut, stitched, burnished, and wrapped by hand. Good things refuse to be rushed.
1–2 days
Handed to the courier
Oct 20 – Oct 22Tracked from the first scan. You get the number the moment it leaves.
within 14 days
At your door
Oct 28 – Oct 30Signed, sealed, and ready to be carried for a lifetime.
In the wild
Carried, not displayed
The story
A harvest scene in thread: villagers in black Hmong dress picking red chilis from embroidered trees, stitched figure by figure onto lilac cotton. It is the kind of storytelling embroidery that takes a Chiang Mai artisan a full working day — and a lifetime of practice.
Zip-around closure with a violet pom-pom pull, cotton-lined interior with card slots and a central zip pocket. Every scene is stitched freehand, so no two Artisan wallets tell the story quite the same way — yours is one of one.
Materials
Hand-embroidered cotton and woven hemp over a structured core. Zip-around closure with a wooden-bead or pom-pom pull. Soft cotton lining with card slots and a central zip pocket.
Dimensions
Approximately 19 x 10 x 2.5 cm. Fits a passport, a phone, and everything a wallet should hold.
Care
Spot-clean gently with a damp cloth. Keep the threads away from rings and rough surfaces. The embroidery softens beautifully with use.
One of one
No two pieces are ever embroidered alike.
Thirty-day returns
No questions, no restocking fee.
Worldwide shipping
Free over 100 USD, tracked and insured.
Fairly made
Bought directly from the artisans, at their price.
Where they come from
A wooden crate in a Chiang Mai stall.
We found these wallets stacked in an old bottle crate on a market side street — dozens of them, no two alike, each one the better part of a day at somebody's needle. We bought the crate. Then we asked the artisans to keep going.
In numbers
Slow by design
18hrs
Of hand stitching
1of 1
Every piece unique
19cm
Fits a passport
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Needle and thread only
How we choose
Read the whole story
Picked one by one, by hand.
Every batch that reaches us is laid out on the rack and chosen piece by piece — for the density of the stitching, the balance of the scene, the colors that sing together. What does not delight us stays in Chiang Mai.
Carried and adored
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Based on 38 reviews
“You can feel every thread. People stop me to ask about it, and I get to say a woman in Chiang Mai made exactly one of these.”
“The chili harvest scene is a tiny artwork. Prettier in person than in any photo — and the pom-pom makes me smile every time.”
