Why we chose soft PU over full grain.

Full-grain leather has a romantic story. It ages. It develops a patina. It carries the scars of the years.

It is also heavy, expensive, and stiff for the first six months. It cracks if you forget it in a hot car. It absorbs the smell of whatever's near it in a suitcase. It needs conditioning. It needs care.

For a small object that lives in a coat pocket and goes through airport security a hundred times a year, those qualities are not virtues. They are friction.

So we chose soft-grain PU leather. It is light. It is soft on day one and on day five hundred. It does not crack. It does not stain easily. It is vegan, which we like — and it is cheaper to make, which is honest to admit.

The cost of choosing it: we cannot tell you the passport holder will age beautifully over decades. The benefit: it disappears into your coat pocket immediately and forever.

For this object, in this category, at this price — we think that is the right trade.

— Daily Homa Studio