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Keep it away from prolonged heavy rain and rub it occasionally with a leather balm to keep it supple. With a little care it will last for decades and grow more beautiful.

Yes — vegetable-tanned leather softens and darkens gradually as it is handled, developing that rich patina. That is the point of making it this way.

Yes — the leather is cut, stitched and finished by hand, with burnished edges and even stitching. Each wallet is made as a piece to be kept for a long time.

The rich, darker sheen a vegetable-tanned leather develops as it is used and handled over the years. It is not wear — it is the leather maturing, and it is the beauty of the material.

Tuscany has a centuries-old tradition of vegetable tanning, and its leather is prized worldwide for its quality and the honest, hand-made way it is worked.

It is tanning leather slowly with tree bark rather than chemicals. The process takes weeks in Tuscan tanneries and gives the leather its depth, warmth and natural character.