Colibri. Our Smallest Wallet Yet
- tauruscamp
- Jun 17
- 2 min read
This is our thinking behind a single-piece leather card wallet.
Colibrí is the Spanish word for hummingbird. It is small, light, and incredibly efficient, every part of it is shaped for effortless motion. That felt like the right name for a wallet that carries all essentials and disappears into a pocket: light, quick, and made for daily use.
One piece, folded wisely.
Made from a single piece of leather, folded into a complete wallet and held by just two stitches. The best designs already exist in nature. Mostly single forms in origami folds, doing complicated work with simplicity.
Even your heart is a long layers of muscle winds into its chambers.
The Colibri follows the same instinct. nothing is added that doesn't need to be there.
Every fold earns its place, creating the card compartment, the quick-access pocket, and the closing flap.
The flap follows your thumb
This is the one you touch every single day without noticing why.
Most wallet flaps are cut straight. Your thumb, however, doesn't move in a straight line. It travels in an arc. So a straight flap quietly fights your hand every time you open it. The Colibri's flap is cut to follow the natural path your thumb takes.
The wallet opens and closes in one effortless sweep, the tuck-in landing exactly where your thumb expects it. A small thing. But good design is usually a collection of small things you never have to think about.
A quick-access pocket that actually holds
On the back sits a quick-draw pocket for the one card you reach for most: your transit card, your office pass, your daily card. The problem with most quick-access pockets is that they're just an open slot. Convenient for makers, but cards creep out on their own. The Colibri's holds it in place.
No side seams, by design
Because it's one folded piece, there are no stitches running down the sides. That has two quiet benefits. First, no seams means no thread sitting at the corners. The spots that, on most wallets, are the first to wear through and fail. Second, with no seam allowance eating into the interior, there's simply more usable room inside. The wallet holds up to ten cards across its compartments.
Less construction. More wallet.
The leather: Pueblo by Badalassi Carlo
A design like this lives or dies by the leather, and we use Pueblo from Badalassi Carlo, an Italian tannery in Tuscany. It's a vegetable-tanned leather with a soft, matte, slightly fibrous surface. With use it darkens, softens, and takes on a patina that becomes entirely your own. Two people carrying the same colour will, within months, have two distinctly different wallets.
It comes in six colours: Nero, Bone, Tabacco, Ortensia, Oliva, and Coccinella. We can also craft it in leather from other tanneries on request.
Made by hand, in Singapore
Every Colibri is cut, folded, stitched and finished entirely by hand in our studio here in Singapore. There's no factory line. Each one passes through the same pair of hands, which is partly why the details. The fold, the burnishing, the stitching. All get the attention they do.
It's a small object. But it's the kind of small object you'll reach for thousands of times, and we wanted every one of those moments to feel considered.
Looks awesome. Fantastic design.