Ancona Oil-Wax - Travel Set

A flat envelope for the things you carry, and a small zip pouch for the things that tangle. Two pieces, one leather, one colour — and the day fits inside them.

The leather is oil-waxed: worked with wax and oil so the surface pulls lighter where it bends and settles darker where it is handled. That is why the same colour looks slightly different on every piece, and why it will not look new for long — in the good way.

Why you'll love it

• It is a set, not a bag. The envelope carries flat: documents, a tablet, a notebook. The pouch takes the charger, the cable, the mouse, the earbuds.
• Nothing rattles loose. Everything that used to roll around the bottom of a rucksack now has one place to live.
• Wrist strap on the pouch. A stitched leather loop and a metal zip — take it alone and leave the rest behind.
• The fold-over closes clean. A single flap, stitched down both sides, with no hardware to scratch a screen.
• Oil-wax ages in your hands. Marks fade in, folds lighten, the colour deepens where you hold it.
• Nine colours, both pieces matched. Cognac and espresso through to ink blue and oxblood.

Product specifications

• Two-piece set: fold-over envelope plus zip accessory pouch
• Pouch: 16 x 8.5 x 4 cm (measured by hand, small variation expected)
• Oil-wax finish leather, stitched edges
• Leather wrist strap on the pouch
• Metal zip pull
• Nine colours, both pieces matched

About real leather

Oil-wax leather is meant to move. Grain, tone and the depth of the wax change from hide to hide, and the first weeks of handling will lighten the folds and darken the palm areas. Those are characteristics of the material, not faults in the piece.

Care

Keep it dry and out of direct sun. Buff marks with a dry cloth — most of them settle in on their own. A neutral leather balm once or twice a year, worked in thinly, is all it ever needs.